Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Rocco Commisso

Mediacom Exec Wants a Retrans Intervention

Mediacom’s Rocco Commisso has written to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler

Foolish Take on a Viewing Study

Motley Fool thinks that any television executive looking at trends in viewing device usage
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Colorado Quartet Changing Religions

You don’t see on like this every day
AT&T

AT&T/DirecTV Closing In on Merger OK

DOJ is said to be cool with the plans of telecom giant AT&T and satellite MVPD DirecTV
LPTV

LPTV? What LPTV?

FAB asserts that if the FCC and contractor Greenhill did not consider the impact of the incentive auction
Preston Padden

EOBC Takes Aim at Economic Jiggery-Pokery

EOBC is doing its level best to make sure

Gray and the Art of Creative Deal-making

The television group that is arguably the least worked up about the incentive auction
CBS

CBS, AT&T Come to Retrans Accord

According to reports, negotiations went right down to the wire
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Close Encounter in Georgia

A deal for a Georgia television station nominally in the Atlanta DMA
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Close Encounter in Odessa-Midland

Thus far, Gray Television’s acquisition of KOSA-TV in Odessa-Midland TX is the TV deal of the year

Graham Parts Company with Cable ONE

Cable ONE, once part of the mighty Washington Post media empire

ZGS Takes DirecTV Dispute to the FCC

Hispanic-owned television group ZGS has made the case for carriage
Tegna

TEGNA Reels in Three Former Belo TVs

When Gannett acquired the Belo stations back during the summer of 2013

FCC Must Avoid Decremental Damage

The FCC moved in the correct direction but did not go nearly far enough