TV/Cable News

A Los Angeles-based skin care, hair care and cosmetics brand has bumped up its activity at broadcast TV, surging to No. 1 in the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV report for the week ending June 4. There's other big movement on this week's chart, with a gingivitis fighter and a disinfectant brand sizzling with a huge jump in spots.

A just-released White Paper from Neustar, an information services provider known for its "connection science" solutions that's being purchased for $2.9 billion by Golden Gate Capital, confirms what many a TV executive has been spouting for years: Television is still the most effective way to advertise.

On March 15, two of the broadcast television industry’s biggest players formed a consortium designed to promote spectrum aggregation, innovation and monetization while enhancing their abilities to compete in the wireless data transmission sector. Now, one of the nation's biggest Hispanic media companies has joined the consortium.

If you think the radio industry has a battle on its hands with dueling legislation that would impose new royalty fees on music airplay at AM and FM stations, the cable TV industry may have an equally large fight on its hands. On June 20, comments are due on proposed regulations that would require covered cable systems to pay a separate per-telecast royalty.

The soon-to-be Las Vegas Raiders have selected their team's official broadcast partners, and an AM and FM in Beasley's Southern Nevada station group join KVVU-5 in grabbing those honors from the National Football League team set to relocate from Oakland, Calif.

To help reduce injuries or place tower workers in life-threatening situations, the FCC and OSHA today released their jointly produced "Communications Tower Best Practices Guide." The guide is a result of the long-standing commitment of both agencies to ensuring the safety of tower workers, Chairman Pai and OSHA head Dorothy Dougherty note.

There will be no "great affiliate switches" in more than two dozen markets across the U.S. come New Year's Rockin' Eve 2022, allowing viewers of the long-running program to see it in its entirety without flipping channels as Auld Lang Syne is sang.

On May 1, in a novel transaction only made possible by the now-concluded FCC Spectrum Auction, a fast-growing Southern California media player — The Meruelo Group — agreed to pay just $10 million for a channel-sharing agreement created as a result of the Spectrum Auction. The seller, Hero Licenseco, pocketed nearly $147 million for giving up the spectrum for KBEH-63 in the L.A. DMA and agreed to spin the agreement. Now, it's abandoning the deal.

A newly forged joint initiative matches Kantar Millward Brown’s Ignite panel of mobile and PC users with Samba TV’s 13.5 million smart TV and connected device households. This creates a single-source verified passive measurement of TV advertising, the companies boast.

Zacks Equity Research is at it again. Last week, it questioned if Entercom is “positioned for a slump" and then warned investors in Sirius XM Holdings Inc. “to pay close attention to the stock” based on recent moves in the options market. Now, it's wondering why Meredith Corp. shares as of Tuesday's Closing Bell on Wall Street have lost some 16.5% of their value since the company's last quarterly earnings report.

For a television network operating in 2017 and beyond, cross-screen planning, forecasting and measurement capabilities are more important than ever. That's one reason why Univision Communications has forged a partnership with Videology, a software provider for converged TV and video advertising.

In last week’s Media Monitors TV Spot Ten report, the Chevrolet Dealer Association held steady at No. 1 with 27,103 spots. But the Tide is rolling toward TV, and Procter & Gamble Co. is to thank.

Could the Memorial Day holiday be a good time for home repairs and hardware supply purchases? Ace Hardware certainly thinks so, based on last week's Media Monitors Cable Spot Ten report.

One of the nation's largest owners of broadcast TV stations has entered into a Consent Decree with the FCC that resolves an investigation into the improper insertion of Emergency Alert System (EAS) tones in a commercial that aired on a NBC affiliate in Florida's First Coast. We've got an RBR+TVBR Observation on the matter, which could have easily been prevented.

The television market of WSBS-22 in Key West, Fla., the station used by Spanish Broadcasting System as the flagship for its Mega TV mini-network, will now include 41 cable communities in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale DMA, thanks to an FCC Media Bureau Order released today.