TV/Cable News

In September, SagamoreHill Broadcasting made the news for its $23,000 entry into a Texas Gulf Coast market. Now, the company is gaining a presence in the middle of Missouri, thanks to the purchase of an LPTV facility in a big college town and another LPTV facility just southwest of the state capital.

For a generation of television viewers, the Christian Broadcasting Network has served as a fountain of conservative evangelical thought and insight, and the home for such long-standing programs as "The 700 Club." Founded by Pat Robertson, CBN once owned a group of broadcast TV and radio stations. Now, the CBN brand is heading back to the TV dial, thanks to a new "strategic distribution partnership."

Tribune Media is moving forward with its now-aborted merger with Sinclair Broadcast Group squarely in its rear-view mirror. On Wednesday, this was further emphasized with the announcement that it has reached comprehensive agreements on retransmission and carriage consent with three different entities.

The 78th annual search for excellence in television, radio and digital media will formally begin on October 15. That's when the official online submission system opens for the Peabody Awards.

The ongoing drive for ever-higher resolutions has been a familiar story in the world of video acquisition for many years. But, after IBC 2018, talking about the practical application of 8K is no longer taboo, notes broadcast research analyst Chris Evans. In this report, he addresses whether the world -- and U.S. TV companies -- are ready to tackle the next gen delivery of video programming.

A new consumer survey finds that increased churn rates are being faced by video streaming services such as Amazon Prime and HBO Now in key markets such as the U.S. Contrastingly, Netflix outperformed its rivals, opposing the belief that services are discontinued after a trial month. The study also identified the importance of broadcast TV.

Univision Communications will continue to see its array of broadcast stations and cable stations across all local channel lineups on two systems owned by Altice USA. What's the deal with DISH? All is dark -- and a blackout is extending into its fourth month.

There is some good news for broadcast and cable TV industry C-Suiters still obsessed with finding ways to curb that so-called "cord cutting." Customer satisfaction of residential wireline companies is on the rise, according to a new survey conducted by J.D. Power. Here's the bad news: The top service providers, according to J.D. Power, aren't MVPDs but DBS providers.

America’s Public Television Stations (APTS) is "delighted" about a Congressional vote that approves legislation providing full funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in fiscal year 2021, in addition to multimillion-dollar payments in FY2019.

Creativity in producing a collaborative multiplatform advertising campaign -- one that generated results and value for their client in the last year -- is something award-worthy. That's the premise behind the TVB Excellence Awards handed out Thursday at Forward 2018 -- the TVB's annual conference.

While FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly figured out a way, via Cincinnati, to get from Washington, D.C. to Orlando with Chief of Staff Brooke Ericson for a keynote address delivered Thursday at the 2018 Radio Show, members of Congress were busy on Capitol Hill engaged in a most noteworthy discussion. No, we're not talking about Brett Kavanaugh.

The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security has given the green light to a grant to the state's public television stations that will help launch a pilot designed to deliver private, secure communication between first responders and their management teams in case of an emergency.

It's been a busy week for Nielsen, which today launches a quarterly consumer tracking survey that dives into the emerging devices and services that are shaping how people are consuming media, as well as the consumer perceptions behind them. This includes smart speakers, and other new platforms for consuming content.

That's a question asked by digital marketing and advertising denizens at eMarketer. According to marketers they've communicated with, fragmented media consumption is disrupting their TV advertising approach. What does this mean for broadcast television as it enters Q4 and prepares for 2019 and beyond?