TV/Cable News

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.

That's the message being shared on May 1 by Nielsen as it debuted "The Ad Supported Gauge," a new quarterly report offering a comprehensive look at the segment of television that delivers advertising across broadcast, cable and streaming.

He spent 24 years at Amazon, and is the prime architect (no pun intended) of the digital streaming expansion into on-demand entertainment and live sports, building Prime Video, Amazon Studios, Amazon Music and Amazon's advertising and marketplace divisions. Now, he's taking over Tennis Channel.

The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts; MANA – A National Latina Organization; the National Urban League and the Hispanic Federation have teamed up to pen a letter to the FCC urging modernization of its broadcast ownership rules.

It will be a very busy May 8 for analysts and investors who track broadcast media on Wall Street. Entravision has decided to become the sixth publicly traded company with stations in its stable to release its first quarter 2025 results on the second Thursday of next month.

He has a quarter-century of experience in media sales, marketing and revenue generation for advertising-driven operations and was previously VP and Director of Sales in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose and Monterey-Salinas DMAs for Effectv. Introducing the new VP/GM of KRON-4 in San Francisco, owned by Nexstar.

Two months after the FCC opened up a comment period on a trio of proposals that would unwind VHF-to-UHF shifts at stations owned by Gray Media, the FCC has given its blessing to the company's requests. It did so as it received not one comment on the matter, except from Gray itself.

In recent years, national spot TV became a target of one accident attorney specialist formerly known mainly in parts of Florida. Today, it is found across the U.S., and Spot TV efforts are helping make it a dominant brand.

Thanks to The E.W. Scripps Co., the first-ever nationally televised pre-season contests for the WNBA will be coming to all stations aligned with its ION network. It's a double-header, and will see the WNBA Friday Night Spotlight on ION return on May 2 with a pair of exhibition match-ups.

"People close to the discussions" have told The Wall Street Journal that Paramount Global will continue "to abstain from particular corporate diversity initiatives," one step it will take to meet FCC approval of Skydance Media's proposed merger with the company through an acquisition of National Amusements, Inc.

Here's the good news: TelevisaUnivision saw Q1 2025 adjusted OIBDA growth and "sustained momentum against our strategic priorities.” However, domestic revenue declined 4% as total revenue for its Mexico operations slumped by 23%.

NBCUniversal's parent has released its first quarter earnings report, and for one media advertising forecaster, the negative movement within the company's ad business is a sign that "soft ad trends" for broadcast television station owners are making growth opportunities for linear properties more difficult to predict.