TV/Cable News

In last week’s Media Monitors TV Spot Ten report, McDonald’s rose to first place with 20,154 spots while Tide leapt from No. 30 to No. 2 with 17,089 ads. Claritin moved up to No. 3.

In last week’s Media Monitors Cable Spot Ten report, GEICO was No. 1 again with 37,714 spots and Progressive held on to second place with 35,320 ads. DraftKings climbed to No. 3.

The six noncommercial TV stations licensed to Maryland Public Broadcasting have entered into a Consent Decree with the FCC's Media Bureau to resolve an EEO investigation, which on Sept. 5 was formally terminated.

A noncommercial TV station operated by a community college district in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose DMA could have earned millions of dollars from participating in the FCC's Spectrum Auction. That didn't happen, and now the facility is being sold for a fraction of what it could have fetched — allegedly due to one person's error. Who's the buyer? It's a player north of the Golden Gate Bridge that's now salivating at an opportunity to challenge PBS giant KQED.

Despite what President Trump may desire with respect to future funding — or lack thereof — for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Congress appears to have its back. The U.S. House and Senate Appropriations Committees on Thursday each approved legislation that gives CPB millions of dollars in Federal funding through the end of 2020.

Of the six individuals speaking this morning at a House Energy & Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing focused on the post-FCC Spectrum Auction repack process, the choice of the GM of The E.W. Scripps Co.'s O&O in Nashville to testify may be a smart one. After all, the Subcommittee Chairman's district includes much of the station's DMA.

One of the nation's top companies serving Hispanic consumers and millennials has revealed how much it is shelling out for three series of senior secured notes. The answer? A total $200 million is being put toward the notes.

In an announcement made at exactly 7:18pm Eastern on Wednesday, a potentially ugly battle between Cox Communications and Hearst Television over retransmission fees that led to the 12:01am Eastern removal of the broadcast company's stations from the MVPDs lineups has ended.

Looking for a new way to enjoy the classic fantasy horror series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"? Consider watching "La Cazavampiros" this fall. That's the Spanish-language translation for the show's title, and it is joining two other big English-language prime-time hits on the Hispanic multicast network tied to Telemundo stations across the U.S.

Live in Omaha and want to watch Good Morning America? If you're a Cox Communications cable TV subscriber, you're out of luck. Want to watch NBC Nightly News in New Orleans? Nix that. Cox and Hearst have reached an impasse in negotiating a renewal retransmission consent agreement, marking the third time in 2017 these two stations have been embroiled in derailing detente.

While Cox and Hearst have reached an impasse in negotiating a renewal retransmission consent agreement, leading the MVPD to drop all Hearst stations at 12:01am today, Raycom Media has successfully won a second reprieve with AT&T-owned DirecTV as the two parties continue to hammer out a new retrans deal.

Say goodbye to Retirement Living Television. The cable and satellite offering will now become home to Newsy, the until-now "over the top" news and information network targeting millennials. The shift is the result of The E.W. Scripps Company's acquisition of RLTV carriage contracts, and will surely raise questions regarding millennials as "cord-cutters," and not MVPD subscribers.

As Zacks Equity Research sees it, "value investing is easily one of the most popular ways to find great stocks in any market environment." Among these values are stocks that could be getting relatively little notice and are compelling acquisitions. Then, there's the company that could be offering "tantalizing discounts" when compared to their fair value. Is CBS Corp. a good choice for value-oriented investors right now?

Today is the first day of school across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Region, and advertisers were keenly aware of the shopping needs of parents going in to the Labor Day holiday weekend. Three top brick-and-mortar retailers used spot cable to help get customers in the doors — and at the checkout kiosks.

Both stations were out of service as of the Commission's 10am Central report released on Labor Day and sustained considerable storm damage. With their late Monday return, all television stations are back on the air in the areas impacted by Storm Harvey.