Top House E&C Dems Challenge TV’s Shared News Pacts
Call it the Sinclair effect: Reps. Frank Pallone and Mike Doyle, two leading House Democrats, asked the Government Accounting Office on Wednesday to review "the effect local broadcaster agreements have on the FCC's public interest goals of supporting competition, localism, and diversity." Of utmost concern are shared services agreements allowing one company to produce newscasts airing on another company's station. Sinclair Broadcast Group was noted.
After Four Decades, Munson’s Career Sunset Set In Phoenix
Under the leadership of Ed Munson, the news operation of Meredith Corp.'s CBS affiliated KPHO-5 and its news-intensive unaffiliated KTVK-3 has grown to be the largest in not only Phoenix, but in the entire state of Arizona. Now, Munson is ready to kick back and reflect on his career accomplishments.
TEGNA Goes To Denver For KHOU Leadership Shift
A regional Emmy winner who has newsroom, art department, business development, sales design and production and promotions experience has been tapped to succeed Susan McEldoon at a TEGNA property that has had its fair share of weather-fueled challenges in the last year.
Broadcast Media’s Future? A ‘P1’ Boost Is In The Works
Every radio industry ratings nerd knows what a "P1" listener is. Back in the day, there were even "P1" playlists, reflecting the biggest of markets and what was tops of the charts there compared to a smaller market. Leave it to a program that's all about the P1 to boost the future talent pool for both radio and television.
CBS, T-Mobile Complete Accelerated N.Y. Repack
An unaffiliated TV station based on Long Island that serves the New York DMA successfully moved to its new spectrum frequency earlier this month. The achievement was done more than a year sooner than its FCC-enforced deadline, much to the delight of T-Mobile.
An Automated Way For TV To Capture Digital Dollars
FreeWheel and Operative on Monday announced a partnership that makes NBCUniversal the first media company to participate in a platform designed to empower TV media businesses to sell advanced TV along with digital at scale in an automated way— to compete against Facebook and Google.
Hands-Free TV Googled By DISH
Attention germophobes and all individuals who still have not mastered the multi-device remote control: If you are a DISH subscriber, you can now let your voice do all of the work, thanks to Google.
Can Radio Help Growth Of TV Viewership?
Cumulus Media-owned Westwood One commissioned a first-ever Nielsen cross-media study using PPM data to measure TV and radio audiences. What's the key finding? Light and non-TV viewers represent a large percentage of the TV audience but represent only a small percentage of TV time spent and commercial impressions. Is the solution AM/FM radio?
Another Southward Stock Slide For SBS
The Miami-based owner of the Mega TV operation and radio stations targeting Hispanics suffered a steep drop Thursday on Wall Street. SBS shares are now just a penny away from their lowest value, year to date. The dip comes as investors await a preview of what SBS expects to reveal in its Q2 earnings report.
CBS’s Wall Street Bounceback
Don't look now, but CBS shares are right back to where they were in late January. Has the current quiet in the ongoing squabble between the company led by Les Moonves and its controlling shareholder, the Redstone family's National Amusements Inc., warmed investors' hearts?
Minor Change Freeze Thawed For LPTVs, TV Translators
Was it the heat index of 106 that did it? With the Nation's Capital as hot as a furnace, the FCC's Media Bureau on Tuesday officially thawed out its minor change application filing freeze for LPTVs and TV translators.
Meredith’s TV Ops Leader Added To NAB Television Board
The president of the Meredith Local Media Group has been appointed to the NAB Television Board of Directors. He adds the role while continuing to serve on the CBS Affiliate Board and the Board of the Television Operators Caucus.
As Expected, Small MVPD Neuters Nexstar Station Signals
On June 28, RBR+TVBR reported on the likely "blackout" of the CBS and MyNetworkTV affiliates serving Horry County, S.C., by a small cable television services provider in the Florence market. Indeed, the MVPD has dropped the station's DT1 and DT2 signals, and the American Cable Association is livid. Station owner Nexstar Media Group feels otherwise.
Is TV What Most SMB’s Aren’t Buying?
The first of 10 summer-long insights scheduled for weekly release from Borrell Associates arrived Monday (7/2) for media pros and advertising executives. The series begins with a peek at what "the vast majority of advertisers" aren't buying this year, by media type. Are broadcast and/or cable on this list?
CBS’s Newest GM: A Media General Vet
A former Media General executive who has been on the sidelines since the company's merger with Nexstar was completed has just resurfaced. His new role is as VP/GM of CBS's owned-and-operated stations in the capital of the Golden State. The appointment comes as the head of these two CBS stations heads west on I-80 to San Francisco for a promotion.