TV/Cable News

With TV broadcasters already requesting "significantly more" than the $1.75 billion set aside to cover all costs related to the post-FCC Incentive Auction repack process, the top Democrat on the House Energy & Commerce Committee has introduced legislation that would create a $1 billion emergency fund. Not only would these additional funds boost the reimbursement purse, but House E&C Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr. (D-New Jersey) says his bill will keep viewers' TVs from going dark.

Take one look at the recent quarterly earnings statements for the nation's biggest broadcast TV companies, and one thing is certain: retransmission fees have become a major revenue source. Is that a good thing? That's perhaps the crux of a Digital Policy Institute webinar scheduled for Thursday, July 27, at 11am.

Tongues are wagging across TV land, and the latest rumors to involve big television industry players have catapulted Univision Communications and Discovery Communications into the headlines.

The negotiations for national TV’s prime-time upfront for the 2017-18 season are nearly complete, and Ed Papazian's New Jersey-based Media Dynamics Inc. estimates that total ad revenue for the broadcast TV networks and cable channels saw an increase of 5.9% over the previous upfront.

The VP/Controllership of Disney Financial Services and Helios and Matheson's CFO have been selected as co-chairs of a seminar devoted to what lies ahead for media in 2018 offered by Media Financial Management Association (MFM).

Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser has once again taken an up-close look at live and time-shifted TV viewing for children and adults, and examined the calendar month of June 2017. His findings were released today, and the results are hardly surprising—albeit bad news for the TV networks.

Hundreds of media and telecom industry experts, insiders and entrepreneurs will gather Wednesday and Thursday to highlight the most far-reaching issues affecting minority entrepreneurs and underserved communities, as the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) holds its 15th annual Access to Capital and Telecom Policy Conference, “Financing America’s Future.”

Since stepping down as FCC Chairman on Inauguration Day in January, Tom Wheeler has been relatively mum on what's transpiring at his ol' stomping grounds since becoming a senior fellow at Washington, D.C. think tank The Aspen Institute. Wheeler broke his silence on what the Commission is plotting following his exit in a big way last week, by way of a "Techtank" column appearing at the Brookings Institution's website.

Affirmative. Good to go. "Sí, signore!"  No matter how you say it, Gray Television simply seeks a "yes" from the FCC so it can change channels for KYES, its MyNetwork TV affiliate serving Alaska's biggest market. What is Gray's plan? We've got the details.

Could summertime bring a slew of possibilities that, quite possibly, put one in a risky situation soothed over by a reliable and dependable auto insurer? Based on the latest activity in the Media Monitors Cable Spot Ten report, that may be a good assumption.

Flush this: In last week’s Media Monitors TV Spot Ten report, a leading Reckitt Benckiser cleaning and disinfectant brand finds itself among the top 3 advertisers using UHF and VHF stations to deliver their marketing message to consumers.

With the FCC's Spectrum Auction now concluded, we knew in April that storied NBC flagship WNBC-4 in New York is heading into the history books, with programming shifting to a DT signal tied to its Telemundo-affiliated O&O, WNJU-48. Now, viewers of WNBC will not only be saying goodbye to "Channel 4," but also one of the market's most familiar 11pm news anchors—sort of.

Two FOX network affiliates and a DT-2 signal airing the NBCUniveral Telemundo Spanish-language broadcast network located in the Pacific Northwest have new local TV measurement agreements with Nielsen.

The FCC's Incentive Auction Task Force this morning calculated the aggregate amount of the estimated costs of reimbursement-eligible TV stations and MVPDs faced with new post-incentive auction channel assignments. The figure is upward of $2.1 billion.

Much has been said, and criticized, about Microsoft President Brad Smith's goal of bringing broadband connectivity to rural America via the use of free "white space" -- that buffer zone on the spectrum that is found between broadcast TV stations. The Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance (ATBA) commends Smith’s goal of broadband to all of rural America in the next five years. But, the way Microsoft seeks to do it is flawed, ATBA argues, and it has a better solution.