One Final Day To Have Your Say In TV Sales Compensation Study
The study, conducted in partnership with Radio + Television Business Report, is designed to provide TV station owners, operators, and managers with insights to help them develop competitive sales compensation packages that attract — and keep — the best candidates, including those from younger demographics. Your participation counts, but Friday is the deadline!
What’s The Retrans Revenue Outlook For Scripps?
Retransmission consent revenue is still a fiery topic for members of ACA Connects, which represents small and independently owned MVPDs. For broadcast TV companies, it is a growing profit generator that can help combat declines in spot advertising revenue. What's the retrans revenue outlook for the E.W. Scripps Co.? One analyst has an answer.
Coronavirus Stay-At-Home Edicts Could Fuel TV Antenna Use
Could the COVID-19 pandemic further fuel cord-cutting by TV consumers across the U.S.? Yes, new research from Parks Associates suggests.
Meredith Stock Dips on Word of Dividend Freeze
Add Meredith Corp. to the roster of media companies that are engaging in short-term salary cuts for its employees. Oh, and say goodbye to that stock dividend until further notice.
Bob Ross Channel STIRRs It Up
The OTT service created, owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcasting Group has become the inaugural home for the Bob Ross Channel -- a dedicated platform for classic presentation of the paint-at-home legend who has found a new audience among Millennials and Gen Z consumers.
Steel City Transition: NEXTGEN TV Arrives At Three Stations
The FOX, ABC and MyNetwork TV affiliates serving Pittsburgh are now among the first in the nation to begin broadcasting with NEXTGEN TV, the new digital broadcast standard using the ATSC 3.0 protocol.
A TEGNA Multicast Network Gets A Rebrand
Justice Network, until now, has served as TEGNA’s multicast television network featuring crime and investigative programming. No more. The broadcast TV company says the digi-net is undergoing a "comprehensive rebranding." Podcasts from VAULT studios are also in the mix.
Locast Swarms In The Twin Cities
The controversial local broadcast TV streaming service some companies believe is illegally distributing stations without a retransmission agreement has entered another DMA. This time, Locast is bringing its local TV for a "donation" solution to a big upper Midwest DMA.
TEGNA Completes $550M Senior Note Offering, Taps Tripp For DEI Role
The successful completion of TEGNA's private placement offering of $550 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.750% Senior Notes due 2026 has come. The news was accompanied by the announcement of a new Chief Diversity Officer at the broadcast TV station owner.
A VOD Pioneer Files Another Patent Infringement Suit
A company that considers itself to be a VOD pioneer in December 2019 filed a patent infringement actions against AT&T, DirecTV and Dish Network — actions that involves four patents covering streaming media innovations specifically tied to VOD services using the set top box and mobile app technology. Now, this same company has sued Amazon.
Political TV Ad Spend Hits $425 Million
That's the Election Day 2020 conclusion from a MediaRadar deep dive that uncovers just how much was spent across National TV, Digital and Print for political ads between January of 2020 and October. How does over-the-air television compare?
More Time For Public Comment on WNYW, WWOR Owner Waiver
It’s had a permanent waiver of the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rule as it pertains to the ownership of New York’s FOX affiliate and a daily newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801. Now, FOX Corporation wants its second TV station in New York to also be covered by a permanent waiver. Should it? You now have more time to tell the FCC.
Optimizing the Smart TV Experience
A new Parks Research/Applicaster study shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has driven in-home video consumption to unprecedented levels. Nearly 3 in 10 U.S. broadband households saw a usage increase of online video services. Furthermore, nearly 1 in 5 reported an increased use of pay-TV services. Can this momentum continue into 2021?
Is Broadcast TV Losing the Content War to ‘SVOD’?
As summer turned to autumn and fall turned to winter, Americans once again found themselves in front of their screens with few linear options — aside from live news and sports. In contrast, Nathanson says, consumers had access to "an unlimited bouquet of increasingly excellent streaming content choices." Is broadcast TV losing the content war to "SVOD"?
RNN Wins Another Market Modification In Northern N.J.
A transaction that brings a small MVPD in Northwestern New Jersey into the Altice USA family prompted the owner of a regional news and information station born as WTZA-62 in Kingston, N.Y., to modify the station's market to include all of the areas this cable TV services provider covered. The FCC has just said yes to the unopposed petition.