TV/Cable News

It's official: A new digital streaming destination for all-things FOX is coming this fall. And, it will bear the name "FOX ONE." FOX Sports hints that the platform will be up and running by the end of August.

Upfront Week begins Monday. Ahead of the NBCUniversal-hosted gathering in New York, the Comcast unit shared the details of a recent campaign involving a fashion-forward footwear brand that demonstrates how effective TV is for achieving brand lift. 

For the last three years, he's been largely known for his sales and management roles within the TelevisaUnivision domestic radio and television station group, overseeing local media sales for some 25 markets across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. John M. Hannon has now joined Sinclair Inc., and he'll be overseeing two markets.

“We’re making important progress on the key initiatives that are shaping TEGNA’s future,” says Mike Steib, CEO of a broadcast TV company that appears by all accounts to be in growth mode. But, what of TEGNA's Q1 2025 financial results?

Entravision Communications released its Q1 2025 earnings report after the Closing Bell on Wall Street, and Media revenue declined by 10% year over year. Yet, 17% revenue growth was seen overall in Q1 for the company. It's all thanks to soaring Digital dollars. 

"The agreement creates a seamless solution for brands to engage with tennis fans wherever audiences consume the sport, including onsite, on-air and online, allowing for a continued brand narrative across the season," Sinclair says. What does this mean?

The shedding of nearly all of Comcast’s cable television networks housed under its NBCUniversal will see the properties end up in a spin-off company that is taking the name Versant. It's an interesting choice, as Versant Health is a brand under Met Life.

A bigger loss of operations on weaker year-over-year quarterly revenue. That's what Comscore had to share after Tuesday's Closing Bell for U.S. financial markets with the release of its first quarter 2025 fiscal report card.

A trio of licensees of broadcast television stations serving Southern California have each entered into consent decrees with the FCC Media Bureau's Video Division, led by Barbara Kreisman, that will see civil penalties of significance result in hefty checks written out as payable to the U.S. Treasury.

The latest Spot Ten Cable report is out courtesy of iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors, and three big brands showed their might for the week ending May 4. By play count, the spot leader is a big home improvement retailer.

The Senior Deputy Chief in the FCC Media Bureau's Policy Division has allowed Elko County, Nev., to correct its request to modify the satellite television markets of a group of Reno, Nev., broadcast stations. This would allow carriage in the region of the Silver State of stations based in Nevada.

As 2025 began, Fubo agreed to its purchase by The Walt Disney Co. Now, the company led by CEO David Gandler has released its Q1 2025 results, perhaps its last first quarter fiscal report as an independent "sports first" vMVPD. The details are a bit cheerful. It's the Q2 visibility that's a bit glum.

The acquisition is expected to be completed in the second quarter, pending customary closing conditions. The total purchase price is $185 million in cash, which includes $75 million held back that is tied to meeting performance goals and milestones over the next two years.

The two television stations owned by Nexstar Media Group serving Erie, Pa., now have a new VP and General Manager. He arrives at the stations after 7 1/2 years at Sinclair Inc., working in Oklahoma.

As RBR+TVBR first reported on January 16, Patricia and Brian Lane successfully struck a deal for their company to purchase a quartet of TV stations in two small West Coast markets from Imagicomm Communications. That transaction, which saw Kalil & Co. serve as the strategic advisor, has now closed.