TV/Cable News

Thanks to a newly forged pact announced this morning (4/21), comScore's local television audience measurement information will now be integrated with BIA/Kelsey's local advertising spending data and forecasts.

The E.W. Scripps Company has priced its offering of $400 million of new senior unsecured notes. Proceeds from the offering will be used to repay the existing $391 million term loan B due in 2020, to pay related fees and expenses, and for general corporate purposes.

After 27 years, the NBCUniversal-owned Spanish-language broadcast TV network Telemundo serving "America's Finest City" on July 3 will shift from a Tijuana, Mexico-based station to an O&O right in the heart of downtown San Diego.

Edge Spectrum has agreed to acquire 196 television station licenses and construction permits in a deal with EICB-TV and Grace Worship Center valued at $72 million. This involves a promissory note that will cover the entire value of a deal that was originally struck 364 days ago.

Guidebox Inc., an OTT video search and discovery metadata provider to some 50 television brands, has been acquired by ColorTV, a platform for broadcasters to promote, personalize and attribute content on connected TVs and streaming devices.

A whole lot of deal making could be taking place in the posh suites of the Encore and Wynn resort hotels next week during the 2017 NAB Show, and if rumors are correct, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media Co. may want to think about a visit to the "Chapel of Love" before leaving Las Vegas.

Thanks to retransmission consent agreements between local TV stations and cable/satellite companies, total local television station revenue totaled $28.4 billion in 2016, data released today (4/20) from BIA/Kelsey finds.

Say what you want about "fake news" and advertiser uproar over real ads appearing on websites that are less than legit: Programmatic buying is here to stay. That's the key finding from eMarketer's latest digital advertising forecast, which estimates that close to four of every five U.S. digital display dollars will transact programmatically in 2017, totaling $32.56 billion.

A Petition for Rulemaking that seeks the initiation of a proceeding that would repeal the radio an TV Main Studio Rule was filed on Thursday with the Commission.

Two key leaders of the House of Representatives have engaged in a last-minute — and likely futile — fight to get the FCC's key Republican leadership to stop its push to restore the UHF discount used to calculate compliance with the national television audience reach cap.

Nielsen has been named to Google's Marketing Mix Model Partner program. This makes the leading measurement provider of radio and TV consumption and consumer exposure a "preferred partner," injecting the company into a program which enables Nielsen to collect Google advertising impression and spend data directly from the source.

Netflix shares were off nearly 4% in midday trading on Tuesday, as investors reacted to a miss on subscriber estimates that was the lone blemish on an otherwise solid quarter for the OTT giant. At the closing bell, NFLX shares finished with a 2.6% drop, signaling long-term strength for Netflix.

On March 2, during his company's fiscal Q4 and full-year 2016 earnings call with the Wall Street investment community, Entravision Communications Chairman/CEO Walter Ulloa made a somewhat startling revelation: The owner of radio and TV stations super-serving the U.S. Hispanic consumer scored $264 million in gross proceeds from the FCC’s reverse auction. We now know how the dollars fell, and much of those millions of greenbacks are thanks to the company's relinquishment of spectrum in the Constitution State, where it is entering into a channel-sharing agreement for the local Univision affiliate.

Moody's Investors Service has assigned a "Ba2" rating to The E.W. Scripps Company's newly launched offering of $400 million of Senior Unsecured Notes due 2025. The rating comes after the broadcast media company on Monday commenced the private placement offer, which is subject to market conditions and other factors. Meanwhile, Scripps says its Q1 earnings outlook remains unchanged.