TV/Cable News

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."

On June 15, William Binnie agreed to a deal that hands one of the nation's leading Hispanic media companies a channel-sharing agreement for a UHF station that relinquished its spectrum in the FCC's Incentive Auction. The deal was granted by the Commission on Sept. 27. However, two months prior to that NCTA-The Internet & Television Association filed comments taking to task the transfer of must-carry rights from a station that's disappearing to its channel-sharing partner before the CSA has started. Media Bureau Video Division Chief Barbara Kreisman just ruled on the matter.

If you're getting your television channels from AT&T U-Verse and live in either Chattanooga, Tenn., or Reno, Nev., you're missing out on one of your local stations. Effective 2pm Pacific on Tuesday, the CBS affiliate in Silver State's second city and the NBC affiliate serving River City were removed from U-Verse lineups in the respective markets. Why? It's the result of yet another impasse over a new retransmission fee agreement.

A Columbus, Ohio-based media company operated by the Wolfe family since 1929 is taking advantage of the FCC's recently struck media cross-ownership ban by seeking its OK to shuffle ownership of its three TV properties from a trio of individual licensees.

Technology is fueling an evolution for TV, and broadcasters have much to look forward to in the coming years. But, what can consumers expect from broadcast TV in 2018? For Videa President Shereta Williams, the answer can be found within the "clear change" seen during the last few weeks of 2017 that will foreshadow how consumers will interact with broadcast TV in the new year — as well as how the broadcasters themselves look at their future. 

This ain't no Hispanic reboot of The Love Boat. There's a new prime-time reality series set to debut Jan. 7 at 8pm Eastern on Univision Communications' flagship Univision network. While it is set to offer Spanish speakers a "big surprise," the biggest surprise for broadcast TV's C-Suite is perhaps the level of product integration and branding opportunities Univision is delivering for its partner on the show. What can you learn from this unique extra ROI partnership?

In 2017, despite a continued decline in traditional Pay TV subscriptions, there are "some signs of trouble in the new order." What does that mean? According to a new study from PwC, consumers may have maxed out on the number of over-the-top (OTT) services they can realistically pay for.