TV/Cable News

A U.S. District Judge in California on Tuesday was asked to rule on a motion to dismiss a discrimination suit brought against Charter Communications by the owner of a low-power TV station that airs Azteca América programming on one of its digital multicast signals. Can this LPTV owner, known as "The Jewish Cowboy," successfully persuade the court to move forward with its battle against one of the nation's largest cable TV providers?

What's the state of TV Media Sales? AdMall's 8th annual white paper on the subject is out, and it finds that the state of the industry is good year over year. But, there's a lot of room for improvement. How so? Some 44% of managers failed to meet their sales goal in 2017.

Some may want a wall. Others may prefer a clear path to "El Norte." Count Entravision Communications among those that prefer the latter — at least when it comes to bringing Mexican brands and companies closer to U.S. Hispanic consumers.

Broadcast journalists aren't exactly neophytes and hardly Luddites when it comes to their embrace of technology. They're catching up with their viewers' and listeners' news consumption habits by innovating in strategic ways on a multitude of platforms. But, how they're connecting to consumers is changing. Two big digital media players are decreasing in importance. This is the key finding of newly conducted research conducted by the RTDNA and Hofstra University. 

A first-ever tentative agreement with Telemundo Television Studios covering Spanish-language television performers has been reached by SAG-AFTRA. The contract, which is on its way to finalization, marks a breakthrough after 15 months of negotiations that followed a vote by Telemundo performers to unionize on March 8, 2017.

In a fiery dissent that was retweeted by more than one social media follower, Democratic FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel offered her regret that the agency "seeks to gut the effort to promote educational programming for kids under the Children’s Television Act." Rosenworcel was the lone Commissioner to vote against a "KidVid" reform NPRM.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.