TV/Cable News

A top independent data management platform (DMP) and data exchange has been selected as a partner by a company that's best known for providing TV companies with solutions for ad detection, sponsorship measurement and media monitoring.

After Monday's Closing Bell on Wall Street, CBS went looking for some cash—in a nearly billion-dollar way—to engage in a debt swap that, when all the calculations are made, gives the company a more favorable consolidated rate of interest.

One of America's top retailers is once again a heavy user of cable spots, according to the latest Cable Spot Ten report from Media Monitors. Who else is actively using local TV spots on cable channels? Click here for all of the details!

It's the end of a big month for auto retailers, and it's the end of the fiscal year for many businesses. This could explain why the Honda Dealer Association greatly accelerated its activity at broadcast TV for the seven-day period ending June 25.

FOX Sports has given the green light to Nielsen's national out-of-home reporting service. A multi-year agreement between the dominant audience measurement services firm and one of the nation's biggest sports programming brands has been forged.

In a historic event that comes nearly 16 years after the destruction of the original World Trade Center broadcast tower in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the official start of relocation of live broadcasting to One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan has commenced.

The Broadcasters Foundation of America has elected three broadcast media industry executives to its Board of Directors. One leads Cox Media Group, while another founded the only African American-owned company to include a FOX affiliate in its stable. The third new member leads Premiere Networks.

The licensee of a Class A television station in Chicago that challenged a FCC Media Bureau dismissal of a Displacement Application to change the station's digital dial position from Channel 4 to Channel 41 has been thwarted in its efforts to get the Commission to change its mind.

Are broadcast radio and TV station owners the only ones who may complain about the FCC's fees? Think again. Small-sized and rural multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) aren't too pleased with the FCC's assessment and collection of regulatory fees for fiscal 2017, and the American Cable Association (ACA) has let the Commission know just what it thinks about the situation.

For all of the chatter regarding dissatisfaction with MVPDs, the percentage of consumers who are "very satisfied" with their pay-TV service is still much higher than those who are fed up with cable.

The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) has announced the winner of the 2017 Paul White Award, which recognizes a lifetime of achievement and service to the profession of electronic journalism. Who's getting the honor, which will be presented on Friday, Sept. 8 in Anaheim, Calif.?

Here's something new for the broadcast media C-Suites to chew on: Mobile measurement of advertisements has arrived ... for YouTube. Thank Nielsen for the rollout of the new ad measurement tool.

For all of the hubbub over "cord cutting" and the meteoric rise of over-the-top "OTT" delivery of video content, a new report from Boston-based Strategy Analytics finds that while a shift from "traditional" MVPDs is indeed taking place, it's happening, um, despacito ... slowly.

An award-winning journalist, best-selling author and current anchor of CBS Sunday Morning will be the center of attention on Tuesday (6/27) at Midtown Manhattan's posh Cipriani on 42nd, as she will be honored with the 2017 Gracies Lifetime Achievement Award.

A veteran radio industry sales executive who started his career at a pair of Birmingham, Ala., FM stations in 1991 has been selected to serve as Station Manager and Director of Sales for Sinclair Broadcast Group's NBC affiliate in Toledo, Ohio.