TV/Cable News

All 223 U.S. Markets within the Local Now FAST Channel are being made available to VIZIO WatchFree+ users. It marks a big addition to the streaming video platforms that are becoming more popular by the day.

The Zacks Broadcast Radio and Television index just received a good look under the hood by the well-known Wall Street investment house. While cord-cutting clouds the picture for companies with a stake in cable TV, digital content consumption has made two broadcast TV station ownership groups particularly attractive.

Two months ago, TEGNA-owned KFAA-TV was selected as the exclusive local broadcast partner of the Dallas Wings WNBA franchise. Now, other TEGNA-owned stations in Texas have been selected to air the team's games. Additionally, stations owned by Gray Media and Corridor Television are in the mix.

With no other comments submitted to the FCC for its consideration, the Video Division Chief with the Media Bureau has cleared a path for Gray Media to move forward with a VHF-to-UHF upgrade for a new full-power television station it gained the right to build via a swap with Marquee Broadcasting.

It's an iconic ABC affiliate long known for playing host to presidential debates ahead of the New Hampshire primaries. Now, this Hearst Television property has a new General Manager, and she's a 30-year veteran of the station.

YouTube has secured its second consecutive month as the top reported media distributor, eclipsing its previous best share of TV that it set in February, new data from Nielsen show. At the same time, the largest monthly viewership increase among media distributors in March is attributed to Warner Bros. Discovery.

The home improvement category continues to be a hot one for spot cable and spot TV, and for the week ending April 20, one retailer led the way when it came to the number of spot plays that were detected on Spot Cable.

TEGNA-owned streaming advertising platform Premion, focused on Connected TV and over-the-top (OTT) platforms, has integrated Octillion into its offerings — something it says "further strengthens" its local Connected TV platform and demand side platform (DSP) "to drive full-funnel outcomes."

The WNBA's Indiana Fever and WTHR-13, the TEGNA-owned NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, have reached a multi-year extension of their distribution agreement. This will see WTHR or MeTV-affiliated sibling WALV-TV air 18 of the Fever's games.

The E.W. Scripps Co.'s Nuvyyo USA subsidiary, the company behind the Tablo TV device, has debuted new free ad-supported streaming television channels featuring content from Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal will bring 45 WBD-branded FAST channels to the Tablo platform.

He spent more than 14 years as Director of Sales at TEGNA's WXIA "11Alive" and MyNetwork sibling WATL-TV in Atlanta and is a former Tribune Broadcasting sales leader, leading efforts for the company's Indianapolis TV stations.  Now, Tim McNamara is returning to a station he spent five years at earlier in his career.

A series of new free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) linear content offerings from the NBCUniversal portfolio are being added to the DirecTV platform — sort of. As of today, every DirecTV satellite-free streaming customer can access the channels via the MyFree DIRECTV platform.

In July 2021, the VP/GM of the Sinclair-owned FOX affiliate serving Omaha and The CW Network affiliate it runs via a LMA joined Nexstar Media Group to run a dual NBC/CBS affiliate serving the Rio Grande Valley. Now, he's been handed the VP/General Manager role for the company's Albuquerque stations.

Viewing trends have started to settle into more seasonal patterns. That's the main takeaway from the latest installment of "The Gauge," Nielsen's monthly snapshot of total broadcast, cable and streaming consumption that occurs through a television screen. But, there's a bigger statistic likely to get attention.

“We are pleased with another quarter of strong audience performance, with Global and our largest specialty brands leading the way across platforms." That's the positive assessment from Corus Entertainment co-CEO Troy Reeb, whose company released fiscal Q2 2025 results that saw worsened fiscal results.