TV/Cable News

TEGNA Inc., the broadcast TV company formerly known as Gannett, will host its third quarter 2018 earnings conference call with financial analysts on Thursday, November 8 at 8:30am Eastern. The call will be accessible live to the media and general public, and RBR+TVBR will have full details following the call.

Call it a "Sling shot" on Wall Street: Discovery Communications has gained a new outlet for its pay TV channels, and investors on Thursday reacted happily to the news. The result? The company's shares are at their highest level since July 2015.

In every transaction there is a buyer and a seller. But, sometimes the buyer may not be the party set to operate the station it is acquiring. That may be the case here, as a Beaumont, Tex., LPTV facility is going to a company with 11 television properties — and four separate shared service agreements allowing others to operate eight of them.

OTT video "has reshaped a successful industry," North Texas-based research firm Parks Associates notes. With that mindset, Parks released a White Paper that analyzes a key focal point for the pay-TV industry: What should it do to regain their title as the No. 1 provider of video services -- including broadcast TV channels -- to U.S. viewers?

With no petitions to deny filed as of late Tuesday, Gray Television and Raycom Media filed a joint response to the "Comments" filed at the FCC to the companies' plan to merge in a $3.6 billion effort that will likely be free of the problems that led Tribune Media to abort its acquisition by Sinclair Broadcast Group.

The insertion of promos for its shows and movies between episodes of current programs is something Netflix is testing -- resulting in some criticism from its subscribers. But, what if Netflix were to show advertisements, rather than promos? And, what if Netflix bumped its subscription rates by at least $5 per month? Broadcast TV execs may be interested in the answer.

Curious as to the power and influence of digital streaming shows in the U.S. and on a global level? The newly released Global SVOD TV Demand Report from Parrot Analytics is chock full of competitive data and intelligence that could help shape the content on your over-the-air broadcast outlets as well as your social media and OTT streams.

Here's something that TV industry C-Suiters may wish to take note of, for better or for worse. One-third of pay TV households downsized their pay TV packages across the United States. That statistic comes courtesy of the latest IHS Markit “Connected Devices & Media Consumption” survey.

Don't think Facebook Watch is a video venue with legs? You'd better take a closer look at it, since one of the nation's biggest owners of broadcast TV stations has just launched a series specifically designed to expand the audience of its local newscasts to the ubiquitous social media platform.

Insurance loves advertising on cable. Fast food too. Between them, the two industries take up a total of seven places on this week’s Spot Ten for cable based on the number of ads each ran in the medium last week.

It was the Labor Day long weekend last week and it saw some pretty wild results in TV advertising for the week. Allstate and PCH Publishers Clearing House weren’t ranked in the top 100 advertisers last week. This week they claimed the first and 10th spots respectively.

The big news might be that Les Moonves is finally out at CBS. But as far as certain women’s rights groups are concerned, that shouldn’t be the end of the story.

A dispute over a retransmission agreement has seen Rio Grande Valley, Texas, station KRGV no longer available on the DISH Network. The station says it has granted DISH multiple extensions in hopes of coming up with a new deal.

The second volume of Nielsen's Millennials on Millennials report is out. The report is an in-depth look at topics of interest for the second-largest generation group in the U.S. and a major player in the marketing world.

Nielsen’s National Television Household Universe Estimates for the 2018-19 TV season have just been released. A tiny bump upward in the total has been seen. Why? Multicultural households are to thank for the growth.