TV/Cable News

As August enters its final month, car and truck dealers are looking for a big boost in sales as 2018 model-year vehicles arrive. To help bring in the buyers, auto dealer associations are actively using broadcast TV, last week's Media Monitors TV Spot Ten shows.

A French cosmetics company that's a global leader in makeup, cosmetics, hair care and perfume has taken to cable TV spots to help boost sales ahead of the Labor Day holiday. What other companies are actively using spot cable? Click here now for all of the answers!

Eight days ago, two key members of Spanish Broadcasting System's Board of Directors abruptly tendered their resignations. While neither Gary Stone nor Alan Miller were willing to give additional details of their departure from the SBS board, one insider who is very close to the matter willingly shared with RBR+TVBR what's going on behind the scenes at this Miami-based media company controlled by Chairman/CEO Raul Alarcon Jr. Simply put: It's him against a new group of preferred shareholders, and things could be getting bloody very soon.

Nielsen’s National Television Household Universe Estimates have just been updated, and we now know how many TV homes are in the U.S. for the 2017-18 TV season. As expected, increases in the number of multicultural households was seen.

The FCC's Media Bureau late Thursday released a public notice seeking the public's input on the state of competition in the video programming delivery marketplace. Specifically, it wants to know about MVPDs, online video distributors, and broadcast TV stations. Comments are due Oct. 10, and they could be numerous.

In short, yes — says noted Wall Street analyst Nick Del Deo of MoffettNathanson Research. He reviewed strategic direction, capital allocation, and quality of bottom-line metrics for three big tower owners, including American Tower, and finds an investment in the company to be compelling. We've got the details.

"Especially disappointing" Q2 earnings results from two of the world's four largest ad agencies "shocked the market," Wall Street analyst Michael Nathanson notes. But, there was little surprise for him and his team at MoffettNathanson — the results only reinforced lousy trends for broadcast media seen over the past few years, he writes in a report released Thursday.

Thomas, who first rose to fame at WAPE in Jacksonville and was later the first morning host at KPWR "Power 106" in Los Angeles, died Thursday at the age of 69. Thomas, who received an Emmy Award for his work on "Murphy Brown" and was most recently in "Ray Donovan," was suffering from cancer.

TVB, the broadcast television industry's equivalent to the radio industry's RAB, has set the stage for its annual advertising outlook conference. It's set for Thursday, Sept. 28 at Pier 60 in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, along the Hudson River.

A community self-described as one comprised "of more than 90,000 technology professionals and consumers committed to advancing innovation, growing our nation’s IT economy, and enhancing the fabric of our nation through technology" has urged the FCC to preserve no less than three TV white spaces channels in every market in the nation that can be used to carry "innovative broadband technology." The NAB says such a plan goes beyond folly, and could fool the Commission into putting broadcast TV in a perilous position.

Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media Co. have jointly fired back at the many entities opposed to their merger, formally putting its words into writing via an Opposition to Petitions to Deny the deal filed late Tuesday (8/22) with the FCC.

From Mar-a-Lago to the shores of Maui, DirecTV subscribers could soon be missing a local broadcast station from their lineup. That's because Raycom Media's 65 television stations in some 44 markets across the U.S. are locked in the latest dispute over a new retransmission fee agreement, which is needed by midnight Sept. 1 in order to avoid the DBS provider from engaging in a "blackout."

Two weeks after 14-year company veteran Adam Symson took the reins as President/CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company, he's already putting his stamp on the media operation previously led by the now-retired Rich Boehne. 

In a transaction brokered by Kalil & Co., the NBC affiliate serving the Redwood Coast some 4 1/2 hours north of San Francisco is trading hands. The buyer owns the crosstown CBS affiliate, and that's now on the market.

Will Univision Communication TV stations offering four English-language multichannel networks continue to do so for the next several years? The answer is ¡Sí! thanks to a new agreement inked this week.