TV/Cable News

Upon closing its merger with Tribune Media in Q4 2017, Sinclair will enjoy a whopping $4.3 billion in combined revenue, while enjoying coverage of 72% of the U.S. That's nearly double the size of the broadcast TV industry's other key players, and Wells Fargo Securities senior analyst Marci Ryvicker gives her thumbs up. Meanwhile, media brokers who spoke with RBR+TVBR see this as the beginning of a transformative time for the TV business.

The company that owns Dielectric and has played a significant role in the voluntary deployment of ATSC 3.0, empowering NEXTGEN TV and the nascent broadcast internet business, is offering to all across the broadcast industry an open-sourced version of its Broadcast App as "a common baseline for hybrid TV."

Now in their seventh year, the digital upfronts continue to shake up the media and advertising industries. But, the relatively novel concept of online TV audiences is still uncharted territory for most buyers. Many still have questions about how to most effectively allocate dollars across TV and digital media. A June 2012 report from comScore remains relevant, and we've traveled into the RBR+TVBR archives to present it once again for our members.

In a strategic move that further extends its reach in the cloud-media processing sector, Genstar Capital-owned Telestream has acquired a cloud media processing platform used by Fortune 1000 Media & Entertainment companies, streaming services, broadcasters, and corporate video customers around the globe.

A newly released study from Moody's Investors Service has made official what most broadcast TV industry professionals are well aware of: The outlook for the industry remains stable. But, that's not thanks to advertiser demand. It's all thanks to the surge in retransmission fees—a trend the American Cable Association (ACA), a slew of MVPDs and DirecTV and DISH Network are hardly pleased about.

In early March, RBR+TVBR reported on the departure of the Director of Content for TEGNA's CBS-affiliated WTSP-10 in Tampa-St. Petersburg. Kelly Frank was moving to Philadelphia, to take on the role of President/GM of CBS News and Stations' two properties in the market. TEGNA has now selected Frank's successor on Gandy Blvd. 

As the Senior Analyst of Advertising, Media and Internet at Wall Street equity research house Pivotal Research Group, Brian Wieser has gained a strongly positive reputation as a straight-shooter who provides some of the cleanest visibility on the state of broadcast media in the U.S. That's why the broadcast TV industry's C-Suite should be a tad anxious about Wieser's analysis of trends tied to the use of TV alongside commercial share for the calendar month of May 2017.

Horizon Media is "testing" a local TV measurement tool from Comscore as a new form of currency for 2023 planning and buying — a move that puts more pressure on Nielsen as advertisers and media companies seek the best audience ratings in a world with multiple screens and cross-device consumption.

Thanks to the rapid ascent of "over-the-top" (OTT) viewing of full-length scripted programming, reality shows, sports, and news programming, TV isn't just that box in the living room anymore. Srini Dharmaji wants every member of the broadcast TV industry's C-Suite to fully understand this. In the RBR+TVBR INFOCUS report, we examine how social and digital platforms are now, more than ever, essential extensions of VHF and UHF stations.

A low-power TV station operating on digital channel 23, with a PSIP of channel 32, will soon be shifting its programming from CGTN America fare to offerings with a decidedly more evangelical flair. That's because, pending FCC approval, the entity behind Daystar is entering the New York City market.

It's been a great July for Nexstar Media Group shareholders, as the company's stock has sharply rebounded from a mid-May swoon. Tomorrow's trading could be even bigger for the broadcast TV company, which today reached a tentative agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group "on principles" to coordinate the transition of the over-the-air delivery of ATSC 3.0 next-gen TV services in 97 television markets.  

It's no secret to those closely following the Spot Ten Cable reports from Media Monitors that quick-service restaurant brands prefer to use Spot Cable over Spot Television when seeking to connect to consumers. For the week ending August 14, two QSR brands in particular were the strongest users of Spot Cable.

A seasoned media executive with large-market television broadcasting experience is the new VP/GM for WFTX-36, the E.W. Scripps Company-owned station branded as "FOX4" in Ft. Myers-Naples, Fla.

Media mogul and broadcast television station owner Byron Allen is back again at a NATPE affair, this time as one of many speakers appearing September 29 at a one-day affair in the heart of screenland.

The owner of a FOX affiliate in the Deep South petitioned the FCC to modify the TV station's market to include communities some 60 miles to the northeast — including one that's the home to a major university. The FCC's Media Bureau just released its ruling on this request, from Woods Communications Corp.