TV/Cable News

Raycom Media has become the latest broadcast television company to see its stations get yanked from a MVPD over a retransmission fee dispute. Right before midnight Thursday, AT&T U-Verse dropped all Raycom-owned stations from its channel lineups in 23 different markets. It's nothing new for AT&T U-Verse customers in markets where Raycom owns stations.

Entravision Communications has just snagged its fifth television signal in the Silver State's biggest market. The company has, however, taken the quiet route in letting the world learn of its latest acquisition.

A MyNetwork affiliate in Mississippi asserted it had to be added to a cable system's lineup in a county some 30 miles from the origin point of its low-power signal. The FCC disagreed. Here's why.

Local market advertising in the state of Texas will reach $13 billion this year across 19 television markets, according to data from BIA/Kelsey's Media Ad View forecast. Not surprisingly, the Dallas-Ft. Worth market tops the list.

The percentage of U.S. broadband households that aren't subscribing to a "Legacy Pay-TV (LPTV)" service has more than doubled in the past five years. That's the key takeaway from new research conducted by The Diffusion Group.

Two of the broadcast television industry's biggest players have formed a consortium designed to promote spectrum aggregation, innovation and monetization while enhancing their abilities to compete in the wireless data transmission sector.

Founded by the consortium of "television publishers" and operated by "a neutral third-party auditor," OpenAP becomes the television industry’s first open platform for cross-publisher audience targeting and independent measurement.

One of the industry’s most prominent broadcast industry executives has been retained by Verance Corporation to help it in its goal of introducing next-generation television benefits to broadcasters via its Verance Aspect technology.

If your station's success is thanks to an Empire and one Homer Simpson, you may want to book a flight to spend the final week of April in Las Vegas. The same can be said if your affiliate is powered by superheroes such as Supergirl, The Flash and Arrow.

Insurance companies continue to dominate the Media Monitors Cable Spot Ten report. Which ones are making noise?

In last week’s Media Monitors TV Spot Ten report, Boost Mobile was No. 1 again. Where were the other wireless companies?

The DBS provider plans to issue and sell some $1 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible notes in a private offering. Why? It wants the money for "strategic transactions," which may include "wireless and spectrum-related" strategic deals. Stockholders weren't pleased with the news, sending shares downward.

If you've been wanting to tell the FCC what you really think about its waiver granting Fox Television Stations ownership of two VHF stations in the Big Apple along with the nation's most popular daily tabloid newspaper, now's your chance.

When Warren Schlichting, EVP/Programming at Dish Network, wanted to share an update on the current status of the DBS provider's negotiations with Hearst Television, he opted out of a press release. Instead, Schlichting stated his company's case in a video to Dish customers made available Thursday morning.

Of the many key takeaways presented Thursday by Edison Research and Triton Digital in their co-hosted Infinite Dial 2017 webinar on digital media consumer behavior, none stood out more than where Pandora stands today as a source for new music and how it is consumed on a weekly basis. The trends aren't good, whereas Spotify and traditional AM and FM radio stations are holding their own.