TV/Cable News

It's the first day of Spring. That must mean it's car-buying season, based on the activity seen among auto dealer associations on the latest Media Monitors TV Spot Ten.

A key executive at Univision Communications who has served as the interim CEO of the millennial-focused Fusion multi-platform network has hit the gas and driven over to the Hispanic media company's biggest rival — NBCUniversal's Telemundo unit.

The biggest news may concern a big Health & Beauty Aids player, as one brand greatly stepped up its cable TV advertising for the week ending March 19.

A leader in real-time TV measurement for marketers and advertisers has set a new CEO.

The founder and President/CEO of Nexstar Media Group will be honored in late May with the Media Financial Management Association (MFM)'s Avatar Award.

After eight weeks, Optimum subscribers in Connecticut regained access to their local CBS affiliate, WFSB-3 in Hartford, Friday afternoon. The end of a bitter impasse came after a state senator sought to bring Meredith and Optimum parent Altice USA together to resolve their differences. In this RBR + TVBR INFOCUS report, we talked exclusively to this legislator right at the moment she excitedly learned of the battle's end.

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.