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The CEO and top legal affairs man at Nielsen have each received an affirmative nod from the Compensation Committee on the company's board of directors on the awardance of performance-based restricted stock units and time-vesting restricted stock units, respectfully. The fair market value of the stock grants are in the millions of dollars.

"In the streaming wars, the two big winners — Netflix and YouTube — aren’t competing for a single spot. Instead, they’re playing different games," says MoffettNathanson Senior Analyst Rob Fishman. "As Netflix ramps up its advertising revenues combined with underlying strength in the core business, we see a strong runway to drive higher monetization of its engagement."

The Commission on Tuesday affirmed the Comment and Reply Comment dates for its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on "significantly viewed" television stations. It involves MB Docket Nos. 20-73, 17-105, and here's what you need to know.

In what could be its last second quarter earnings report, Fubo, which is being acquired by The Walt Disney Co., delivered results that exceeded both its subscriber and revenue guidance. This led investors to snap up shares in the "Sports First" vMVPD, bringing it closer to a new year-to-date high.

Gray Television has named GMs at four of its stations. In DMA No. 85, a promotion is seen. At the three other stations, moving up in market rank is seen. And, three of the new GMs are female.

The Weigel Broadcasting Co. non-affiliated television station that serves as the broadcast home for two pro sports teams has just been added to the streaming lineup for DirecTV in the Chicago DMA.

It was only a matter of time for Nexstar Media Group shares to recover from their COVID-19 influenced slump on the Nasdaq GlobalSelect market. Who knew that the amount of time it would take for NXST to achieve that feat would be so short?

The dynamics of a new school year and the return of football collided in August to disrupt summer TV trends, signaled by gains for broadcast and cable for the first time since April. That's according to Nielsen’s monthly report of The Gauge, the media industry's snapshot of total TV and streaming consumption.

Auto insurance companies are freely spending money on advertising across cable TV and radio, as well as broadcast TV. The two usual suspects, GEICO and Progressive, are right there at or close to the top. A third player is now increasing its efforts on Spot TV, after some significant use of Spot Cable.

Hispanic households are watching more TV, co-viewing more often, and relying heavily on over-the-air broadcasting, especially when Spanish is the dominant language at home. That's according to new data from the Advertising Research Foundation's DASH TV Universe Study, released during Hispanic Heritage Month.

Disney has been "rightly rewarded" for what noted financial analyst Michael Nathanson calls its "full commitment and now stellar execution of their pivot to Direct-to-Consumer services." In contrast, despite Fox’s "solid" first year featuring 7% affiliate growth, "the company has no such narrative," Nathanson declared. Investors listened.

A local broadcast TV streaming service some companies, and the NAB, say is illegally distributing stations without a retransmission agreement is now available in DMA No. 15. As a result, 66 local TV channels delivered via the internet — "for free" — are available for all within and surrounding the home of Motown and GM.

Effective Friday, Tom Carter will no longer serve as just the CFO of Nexstar Media Group, a role he has held since August 2009. That is because he has just been promoted, and is adding additional duties as part of his signing of a new three-year employment agreement.

Dale Woods in October 2019 packed his bags and headed to Louisville. One year later, he's getting a promotion from his current employer, Block Communications. And, the Toledo-based company that owns the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in addition to TV stations made it official with an announcement distributed Wednesday afternoon.