TV/Cable News

What's going on at Nexstar? On March 1, its shares were at $73.15. Today, they're under $57. Are investors concerned that the company's merger with Media General isn't enough, and that it needs another huge deal to keep up with Sinclair?

Of the thousands of individuals at the recent 2017 NAB Show, an innovator and pioneer in decision studies from Philadelphia may be one of the key people TV industry decision-makers may wish to know. He's also happens to be Villanova University's Assistant Men's LaCrosse Coach and a member of the Forbes Technology Council. What's his story? His company, iQ Media, can offer a TV station “real-time access to both paid and earned media.”

As the 2017-2018 Upfront presentations continue to roll, with clients and marketers shuffling from venue to venue in Midtown Manhattan, Nielsen has given broadcast and cable TV channels a bit of a boost. The dominant audience measurement company in the U.S. plans to install close to 15,000 TV audience meters in about 7,000 homes across the 140 markets presently measured by Local TV paper diaries.

One of the nation's leading media companies serving Spanish-language consumers has scored a Class A television station in Central Florida. It's unclear how the company plans to use the facility, as its owns one property there but sees it and another property its linked to operated by Entravision Communications via an LMA agreement.

The Mitsubishi Outlander and a big health and beauty brand are revving up their activity with cable TV networks, with each effort integral to current campaigns seen from the companies.

One of the nation's top cleaning and disinfecting brands, distributed by Reckitt Benckiser, sprayed a bit more dollars into its broadcast TV spots in the last week. Those products, from Lysol, could be kept in a new car from Toyota. That's the other company powering up its local ad efforts, according to last week's Media Monitors TV Spot Ten report.

Television set manufacturer LG has a huge stake in the success of ATSC 3.0. That's why it filed comments this week in the FCC's next-gen TV proceeding. Here's what LG had to say.

Two individuals who jointly operate a low-power TV station have been handed a whopping $144,344 proposed fine from the FCC. Why? They continued to operate the LPTV station well after their license was cancelled for failing to file a renewal ... some 19 years ago. Here's a tale of what not to do when operating a broadcast media property, along with an RBR + TVBR Observation on the matter.

Amid a flurry of quarterly earnings reports from broadcast media company, The Meredith Corporation on Wednesday revealed something its shareholders will likely be happy to hear: The company's Board of Directors has declared a pretty big regular quarterly dividend. It also gave positive guidance for fiscal 2017.

One of the nation's top voices on the just-completed FCC Spectrum Auction is heading to Washington, D.C. to share some of the "lessons learned" throughout the undertaking.

That's one of the key takeaways shared in a Thursday midday webinar focused on shifts in local advertising presented by top local media analyst Gordon Borrell and Corey Elliot, VP/Research of Borrell Associates.

LBI Media's Spanish-language broadcast TV network has inked new deals that will give it key access to Hispanic households in two big markets in the U.S. Southwest.

Following the FCC's spectrum auction, it became clear that smaller broadcast TV operators, or those with a small footprint in TV, would become sellers rather than acquisition players. Among the companies that looked poised to exit the TV business was Saga Communications. Now, speculation has turned to confirmation: Saga is leaving the TV business.

Lower advertising revenue from its television and entertainment units, coupled with an impairment charge, led the company merging with Sinclair Broadcast Group to a slide in Q1 net revenue and a swing to a steep net loss.

Steamboat Willie is sailing full-steam ahead, as Mickey and Belle boosted both ABC and beleaguered sports network ESPN in bringing The Walt Disney Co. fiscal Q2 results that were far from beastly. Theme parks and Disney's studio operations were to thank for the strong results.