TV/Cable News

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?

The post-Les Moonves era at CBS Corporation entered another new chapter on Wednesday, as Dick Parsons — the former head of Time Warner — has been named Interim Chairman of the company's Board of Directors.

A West Palm Beach-based company that has emerged as the nation's largest independent television broadcaster has closed on its purchase of four stations from a non-secular entity, as well as its recent purchase of a full-power UHF facility in the nation's second-largest TV market.

It's been a busy week for Nielsen. On Monday, it revealed that it will “transform” the measurement of markets that are measured with the audio diary from a quarterly or two times a year view to year-round measurement with monthly reporting. Now, Nielsen has confirmed it is expanding its total audience measurement for local markets—a boost for TV.

That's the question asked by Simply Wall St. writer Autumn Haas, who offers her view on what The E.W. Scripps Co. represents for investors looking to perhaps buy -- or sell -- shares in the company.

The association is urging the FCC to modify its children's television recordkeeping requirements in a manner, it says, that would "reduce reporting burdens on smaller cable operators and would not in any way compromise the important substantive limits on commercial matter aired during children's programming hours."

Ford Motor Company and Toyota have been somewhat of a surprise of late with respect to the level of broadcast TV spots they've committed to. Last week, both were among the top brands using broadcast TV spots to reach consumers -- straying from the normal end-of-the-month push to bring shoppers to showrooms. Now, two other auto brands have trumped these two brands.

How fruitful will electoral ad spending be for The E.W. Scripps Co. this fall? The company that just sold off all of its radio stations expects total political advertising revenue in 2018 to grow more than 50% over the last midterm election year of 2014.

The battle for one of the biggest news brands on Earth is over, but the struggles continue courtesy of Wall Street for Comcast Corporation, which on Saturday (9/22) announced that it has prevailed with the highest offer price in the auction to acquire Sky.

All is not celebratory at beIN Sports, which late Friday revealed that it has inked a long-term content distribution renewal agreement with DISH and Sling TV. While the renewal ensures that viewers to beIN Sports and its Hispanic sibling beIN Sports en Español will continue to receive soccer matches from Spain's La Liga, beIN is still in discussions with Comcast and DirecTV that have been less than pretty.

A Class A TV station in the Peachtree State found on local cable TV systems and its Class A LPTV sibling have just been traded to a locally based buyer. What are his plans for the station? They won't include "North Georgia Television News."

A duopoly in Maine’s biggest market is now in place, as Hearst Television has completed its acquisition of a station affiliated with The CW,  MeTV and MyNetworkTV from Ironwood Communications.