TV/Cable News

The Spanish-language broadcast TV network known for its prime-time variety program hosted by a man in a clown suit, a host of originally produced reality competition shows, and two weekday newscasts will soon return to Miami after a six-month absence. This results in a perhaps cloudy South Florida future for another Spanish-language TV network -- one that Philip A. Falcone's HC2 Holdings acquired just weeks ago.

The most popular series on HBO is coming to an end. But, the network confirmed Thursday that "Game of Thrones" won't return for its eighth and final season until 2019.

What do the FCC and Turner Broadcasting System have in common? Both entities are finalists for the most prestigious award for achievement in the practice of analytics and operations research.

A former VP/Sales for the company previously known as Gannett has returned to what is now TEGNA, by agreeing to oversee its ABC affiliate in Big D. This individual succeeds Michael Devlin, who previously announced his retirement.

Terry Crosby and Randy Nonberg are widely known in the TV industry for their longtime involvement in Hispanic media. Now, the one-time Chairman/CEO and President/COO, respectively, of the former Una Vez Más broadcasting company have opted to sell four TV stations -- including two it acquired in August 2013 from a subsidiary of Viacom. The buyer has emerged in recent weeks as a major player in Hispanic media.

Meredith Corporation's VP/News & Marketing has just taken on a much bigger role at the media company's 17 owned and/or operated TV stations across the U.S. As of today, this individual is now EVP/Operations for the Local Media Group, with all station operations and GMs reporting directly to him.

The company that describes itself as "a publicly traded diversified holding company which seeks opportunities to acquire and grow businesses that can generate long-term sustainable free cash flow and attractive returns in order to maximize value for all stakeholders" has just added two more stations to its rapidly expanding stable.

Automotive retailers hoped cars and trucks were in the minds of prospective end-of-year buyers. The push for last-minute sales ahead of the new year was on for many auto brands, and broadcast TV was the venue where the advertisements were largely seen.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has asked its GM of its Boise, Idaho duopoly to pack his bags and truck west along Interstate 84 to the Rose City to take on a bigger role at the media company seeking to complete its merger with Tribune Media.

"We’re wrapping up a very successful 2017 for our all-important Guardian Fund … and you can still join us with a check marked 2017.” That's the good word from William O’Shaughnessy, Chairman of the Broadcasters Foundation of America Guardian Fund and owner of Whitney Global Media.

An entity which pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars in the FCC’s Incentive Auction, including $72,817,599 for giving up the spectrum for a “zombie” station in the Big Apple, has just received Commission approval of a deal that sends 7 Class A TV stations in the Pittsburgh market to Philip Falcone's HC2 Station Group. 

DirecTV subscribers who have been seeking rodeo coverage and episodes of such classic programs as The Lone Ranger and The Roy Rogers Show have just landed the one cable TV channel catering to them. 

Greater knowledge of linear TV data. Personalization. These are just two of the things Walt Horstman, ‎SVP/GM of Advanced Media & Advertising at TiVo, believes will be big on the minds of everyone in broadcast TV's C-Suites throughout 2018. Horstman shares with RBR+TVBR readers why he's big on these two topics, along with four other key things TV executives will be talking about across the next 12 months.

The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) is gearing up for one of its biggest-ever conferences, with a session with top Wall Street analysts on the future of the media industry primed to be a top highlight of the upcoming NATPE MIAMI Marketplace and Conference.

There's a good news/bad news/great news story for broadcast TV executives curious as to their stations' overall ratings performance in November. In the month, traditional TV reached 97% of all adults 18-34 for more than one minute. While that statistic holds true, so does the fact that viewing of individual networks on traditional TV are losing reach. Nevertheless, Wall Street wordsmith and respected financial analyst Brian Wieser has something wonderful to share: "The platform of TV as a whole is holding up better than many think."