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"Value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment," says Zacks Equity Research. "After all, who wouldn’t want to find stocks that are either flying under the radar and are compelling buys, or offer up tantalizing discounts when compared to fair value?" Could buying Meredith Corp. shares be one of those "compelling buys?"

The advancement of digital and broadcast innovation in local television news just got a bit of a boost, thanks to a $1.9 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Tribune Broadcasting may soon be owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, but that can't stop the day-to-day business activities of the owner of WGN-9 in Chicago and the Antenna TV digital multicast network. That's why it has forged a new deal with the dominant audience measurement company in the U.S.

Progress in "Advanced TV" and the industry's commitment to new methods that will improve interactivity and the viewer experience will help with the ascent of local video advertising in 2018. That's the key bullet point offered in a new BIA/Kelsey report on the progress and trajectory of linear TV platforms including automated TV, programmatic TV, addressable TV, OTT, Smart TV, Connected TV, and — with the recent FCC approval — of Next-Gen local TV standards, ATSC 3.0.

 On the afternoon of Oct. 19, 2017, the MyNetworkTV affiliate serving the state of Hawaii suddenly faded to black for DirecTV subscribers across the state. The station — KFVE-9 in Honolulu — still hasn’t returned to the lineup. On Oct. 20, a "Good Faith Negotiation Complaint" against DirecTV was filed by KFVE's licensee with the FCC's Media Bureau. A decision arrived Monday morning, Hawaiian time, and KFVE GM John L. Fink won't be happy.

A Florida-based non-profit operation focused on evangelical Christian programming, founded by Bob D'Andrea in 1979, has just expanded with the acquisition of a full-power TV station, Class A sibling, and an LPTV cousin. This brings the Christian Television Network (CTN) into the Crescent City, Sin City, and a key market in the Rockies, thanks to a deal that saw Greg Guy of Patrick Communications represent the seller.

A television broadcasting company all-too familiar with waging war against cable companies over retransmission fees has raised its battle flag in a challenge that has led Charter Communications to yank 11 stations from Syracuse to Spokane. In multiple markets, viewers were left scrambling to determine how to watch Super Bowl LII.

The pundits and opinion seekers are already contemplating CBS Corp.'s future, now that its board of directors is considering a reunification with Viacom. As Recode Managing Editor Edmund Lee sees it, Amazon should buy the company. Why?

The NAB, along with Sinclair Broadcast Group, on Friday filed a 42-page motion with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in a formal response to the request of Prometheus Radio Project and Media Mobilizing Project that the Court issue an emergency stay on the FCC’s media ownership reform order. What do the NAB and Sinclair want? A "move for leave," which would allow them to file their answer to questions as to why a stay shouldn't be granted.

Facebook is fighting "Fake News" in a big way. In addition to the prioritization of posts from friends, Facebook is giving added attention to "high-quality" news sources. Mark Zuckerberg himself explained what these sources are in a Jan. 19 Facebook post. How can your radio or TV station known in your community as "the news source" benefit from this change? Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson seeks the answer for you.

Nexstar Media Group's Board of Directors has approved a healthy increase in its quarterly cash dividend, beginning in Q1 2018. Company founder and CEO Perry Sook explained why shareholders are getting the big payday in comments released Friday.

Here's a statistic that only reaffirms the notion that cord-cutting is highly impacting MVPDs across the U.S.: Broadband-only households are set to grow from 19 million in 2017 to 37.2 million by 2022. That somewhat alarming fact comes from a newly issued report from Kagan.

In April 2017, Gray Television's legal counsel decided to take action against two men seeking to take advantage of their humorous yet fraudulent appearance on the company's NBC affiliate in Eau Claire, Wisc., by using the footage of their live on-air antics as "Chop & Steele" for a promotional video. On Wednesday, a settlement was reached between Gray and the defendants.

The company that seeks to expand beyond the FCC's present-day 39% national ownership cap thanks to the restoration of the "UHF Discount" — ahead of a wholesale review of such caps — won't have any trouble getting a range of audience data and program ratings for years to come. The new deal with Nielsen comes a day before the Federal Register publishes its rules on ATSC 3.0, of which Sinclair is a key proponent.