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When it was simply Univision Communications, it had ambitions of a sizable initial public offering of stock. That never transpired, as Univision merged with iconic Mexican media brand and longtime content partner Televisa to become TelevisaUnivision. The company regularly offers its quarterly earnings results, even though it isn't publicly traded. Now, it has shared what it expects to report for the three months ended June 30.

Nielsen’s 50th monthly report of The Gauge is here, and the latest snapshot of total TV and streaming consumption offers more sobering data for broadcast TV companies fighting cable TV companies seeking a stop to a firm ATSC 1.0 cutoff date as OTT and FAST channels continue to attract audiences.

Hearst Television has established a fellowship honoring a company executive who led the company’s promotion and marketing efforts for more than a dozen years as Vice President and Senior Vice President, before her December 2024 retirement.

The QSR that wants you to "have it your way" has a way with getting its messaging out to the public. For the month of July, that very much involves a big Spot Cable campaign, the latest data from Media Monitors show.

Gray Media and the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers have reached an agreement that will bring the team's three pre-season games to viewers across the publicly traded company's Telemundo stations in both North Carolina and South Carolina.

"This strategic collaboration delivers a powerful blend of live TV and exclusive on-demand content, reinforcing both companies' commitment to serving U.S. Spanish-speaking audiences with culturally relevant programming," DirecTV and TelevisaUnivision said in a joint statement distributed Thursday.

It signed on the air on July 31, 1955 as KRNT-TV, and was owned by the Cowles family until 1983. Today, the station is CBS affiliate KCCI-8 in Des Moines, and the Hearst Television property is gearing up to celebrate its 70th anniversary.

The Northern Virginia-headquartered broadcast television company led by CEO Mike Steib and CFO Julie Heskett has proven that it is one of the industry's strongest players. How it performed in Q2 2025 will be revealed in early August. 

A Senior Fellow of an independent, non-profit free market-oriented think tank founded in 2006 has taken pen to paper to alert the FCC and its Chairman, Brendan Carr, that it best refrain from reviving what it calls "social contracts" to address inefficiencies in the nation's video marketplace.

Free TV Networks serves consumers with over-the-air digital broadcast networks and free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels. Now, two of those "diginets" have widened their respective distribution thanks to a pair of agreements with two of the biggest broadcast TV ownership groups in the U.S.

Summer months typically mean an uptick in ad spend for quick-service restaurants eager to attract younger consumers and those on the road for an enticing bite. For the Independence Day holiday weekend, one QSR stood out from the pack in a significant away as two category peers saw a dip in their Spot Ten Cable ratings.

As many local television broadcasters sees it, a Petition for Rulemaking and Future of Television Initiative Report filed by the NAB offers sensible rule "modernization" suggestions to the FCC that will allow the industry to further future-proof itself. Six TV industry-focused political advocacy groups disagree.

In an 18-page decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has denied a petition of review from a Connecticut-based low power television station licensee that challenged the FCC's implementation of the Low Power Protection Act.

NBCUniversal’s Stamford Studios marked its 15th anniversary in late 2024 with the installation of a Solid State Logic System T S400 broadcast audio platform. The console manages broadcast audio for NBCUniversal Syndication Studios’ The Steve Wilkos Show and Karamo at the 46,000-square-foot production facility.

A NYSE-traded technology platform that brings performance marketing to Connected TV has forged a partnership with a "go-to-market intelligence platform" in a way that is designed to help business-to-business marketers "reach the right business decision-makers through streaming TV ads."