Bidding starts for NFL’s Thursday night games
CBS and Fox Sports have submitted bids for the right to air as many as eight Thursday night football games
Juan Pablo sizzles in first dates
This may be the best first dates of any season I can remember in recent Bachelor history. And I’m not just talking about the chemistry between
WEYW-TV files petition for reconsideration
The fight goes on with more in depth information for reconsideration of the FCC's December 16th ruling denying must carry for WEYW. Rick Bellizzi, CEO of Bellizzi Broadcasting Network’s WEYW-LP, Key West, Florida sent a filing for reconsideration in on 1/15. Steven Broeckaert, Senior Deputy Chief, Policy Division, Media Bureau, denied a complaint filed 9/20 by Bellizzi against Comcast for refusing to air WEYW because there is another full power television broadcast station licensed to the community within the county served by the cable system. WEYW’s argument is the two full-power stations licensed to the same community provide only Spanish language programming and broadcast from studios over 120 miles north of these stations’ transmitter sites. They are WGEN [MundoFox] and WSBS [MegaTV]. Here is his filing:
Nexstar increases quarterly dividend by 25%
Nexstar Broadcasting says its board approved the increase in their quarterly cash dividend to $0.15 per share of its Class A common stock beginning...
Aereo announces Cincinnati launch date
The company announced today that the service will be available to residents in the Cincinnati metro
Charter, Comcast in talks over Time Warner Cable bid
Charter Communications has reached out to Comcast this week about teaming up to buy Time Warner Cable, after TWC rejected Charter’s $37.3 billion takeover...
Cablevision suing Meredith over WFSB blackout
The battle heats up yet another notch: WFSB-TV Hartford’s parent is now being sued by Cablevision
WOIO-TV, GM sued over “sexually hostile” work environment
The Raycom Media CBS affiliate in Cleveland, Raycom itself, General Manager William Applegate and
Charter details TWC offer with SEC, shareholders
On 1/13, Charter Communications made a $132.50 per share ($61.3 billion) offer for Time Warner Cable
Harris buys Imagine Communications; beefs up OTT offering
Harris Broadcast says it has completed its buy of Imagine Communications, provider of digital video solutions
Bachelor premiere gets 8.5 million viewers; 3 year high
I wimped out earlier this week and worked from home. I’m blaming it on the polar vortex, but really it’s my Bachelor Premiere hangover.
Time Warner Cable Board rejects Charter offer
They have unanimously rejected a third “grossly inadequate proposal” from Charter Communications to acquire
DirecTV drops Weather Channel; CEO responds
The MVPD, with over 20 million subscribers, stopped carrying the Weather Channel as of
Charter offers to buy Time Warner
From a Seeking Alpha bulletin: “Following weeks of reports and speculation, Charter (CHTR) has offered to buy
Discovery, Scripps end talks on merger discussions
They’ve abandoned talks for a merger last week, the Wall Street Journal reported. The discussions did not go beyond the early, exploratory stage and...