TV/Cable News

Fox Sports will be streaming Super Bowl XLVIII live through FoxSportsGo.com and its Fox Sports Go mobile app, marking the first time the game...

Comcast has reportedly added Barclays Plc as an adviser as it evaluates a potential deal for Time Warner Cable. Comcast also tapped JPMorgan Chase last year for advice as well. Charter Communications made a formal offer last week to buy Time Warner Cable for $132.50 per share, or $37.3 billion, based on shares outstanding. It was roundly rejected.

The Weather Channel wants DirecTV to waive its steep cancellation fees for customers seeking to drop

Comcast has joined a few other MVPDs who are charging consumers an added "Broadcast TV Fee." The fee is being blamed on broadcaster retransmission...

Verizon has agreed to acquire the Intel pay-TV startup to boost its Internet-based TV services offering. Intel Media is Intel’s division dedicated to the development of Cloud TV products and services. The transaction will accelerate the availability of next-generation video services, both integrated with Verizon FiOS fiber-optic networks and delivered "over the top" to any device.

Similar to our situation here in the states, demand for new mobile services is growing so fast that the UK's TV networks fear they may be squeezed out by competition for limited frequencies on the spectrum they currently use. The OTA/”Freeview” digital TV stations are concerned about a plan to move them from their existing broadcast frequencies, and worry about being asked to make do with less spectrum overall in the long run,

The Hartford, CT Meredith-owned CBS affiliate and the cable provider that serves much of Litchfield

SAG-AFTRA presented its Actor statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2013 at the “20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards”...

CBS and Fox Sports have submitted bids for the right to air as many as eight Thursday night football games

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

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 Broadcasting says its board approved the increase in their quarterly cash dividend to $0.15 per share of its Class A common stock beginning...

The company announced today that the service will be available to residents in the Cincinnati metro

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...