TV/Cable News

With students set to return to school in one week in Hawaii and over the next several weeks in much of the U.S., families are still in the midst of summer holidays both near and far from home. Trivago is well aware of this, in addition to the planning now underway for the busy winter holiday season. The result of this awareness can be seen across cable TV.

What’s the legislative and regulatory future for retransmission consent? That's what the Digital Policy Institute at Ball State University sought to answer in a webinar held Thursday morning from its Muncie, Ind., main campus. With significant escalation in the prices paid by MVPDs to carry TV stations choosing the retrans option, and disputes leading to "blackouts" of channels dominating the headlines for much of the start of 2017, some believe its time for a change. Others say leave it up to market dynamics, including several webinar participants.

Record fiscal results. That's the front-and-center takeaway that Meredith Corp. provided to shareholders on Thursday, as the owner of broadcast TV stations across the U.S. swung from a steep net loss to net income of 95 cents per diluted share in its final quarter of fiscal 2017. The company also provided guidance for Q1 and full-year fiscal 2018. Will its lifestyle brands outperform its TV properties?

The Tibetan mandala is a tool for gaining wisdom and compassion and generally is depicted as a tightly balanced, geometric composition. Now, Univision Communications has committed to its own Mandala as it seeks to retain its tightly balanced ad sales efforts.

Nielsen's National Out-of-Home Reporting Service will now featue metrics for one of the nation's most prolific pay-TV news network, and for its sports-focus brethren. The announcement comes following Tuesday's news of the addition of “eligible TV viewing” from Hulu and YouTube TV to Nielsen’s Digital in TV Ratings service.

Multicultural millenial-focused FUSION TV has joined with more than 60 other leading companies, public interest groups and associations in launching a non-profit organization focused on breaking down barriers of entry for underrepresented content creators and those working behind the scenes in media and entertainment.

The owned-and-operated stations of one of the nation's Big Four broadcast TV networks is adopting programmatic TV advertising. And, it's partnered with San Francisco-based WideOrbit to make it happen.

The owner of two low-power TV stations has received a provisional grant from the FCC for carriage on Cable One systems in a small market in the Deep South. There's no guarantee the stations will end up on the MVPD's channel lineup, however. That's because Cable One has been given the opportunity to prove it's unable to receive a quality broadcast signal needed to add the channels.

There's an interim GM at Urban One's pay-TV TV One network. That's because Brad Siegel has exited as TV One President after 2 1/2 years, and informed the leadership team that he'll be leaving the company.

An advanced data and analytics company focused on the media and entertainment industries with roots near the San Gabriel Freeway — Interstate 605 — has established what it calls "a strategic data partnership" with Charter Communications, the nation's No. 2 MVPD.

Looking for solid metrics on programs like the acclaimed drama "The Handmaid's Tale?" It just got easier, thanks to the addition of "eligible TV viewing" from Hulu and YouTube TV to Nielsen's Digital in TV Ratings service. Even more, this service contributes directly to C3/C7 currency.

New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) finds that some 64% of all U.S. households have a subscription video on-Demand (SVOD) service from either Netflix, Amazon Prime, and/or Hulu. That's up in a big way from 2014.

Under the FCC's current rules, all commercial and noncommercial radio and TV licensees, as well as attributable interest holders in those licensees, must file ownership reports by Dec. 1 in odd-number years. That means the clock is ticking. However, there's much going on at the Commission, and given "numerous recent proposals" to change the frequency of ownership reporting — among other things — the NAB requests that the biennial ownership reports be suspended.

A full-power TV station and its low-power simulcast partner, properties once owned by Equity Media, have traded hands. The new owner is already in control of the pair, which are airing Christian-themed programming in the Rocky Mountain region's biggest DMA. Closing has transpired, with Kalil & Co. representing the seller in this transaction.

The multimedia company superserving Hispanic consumers across the U.S. is purchasing an NBC affiliate in the Coachella Valley of Southern California, in addition to the market's MyNetworkTV affiliate. The deal gives Entravision a formidable cluster in the market, as it already owns three low-power TV stations and two radio stations—all serving Spanish speakers.