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The individual who since 2006 has served as the Creative Services Director at Hearst Television's flagship station in Boston has been promoted to the executive position of VP/Marketing for the New York-headquartered broadcast TV entity. He succeeds Suzanne Grethen, who recently retired as SVP of Promotion and Marketing.

He was the VP/GM of the CBS affiliate in Charlotte from 2015 to 2022 and has also been in National Sales at ABC and at such stations as WABC-TV in New York, in addition to serving as CEO of a Florida-based homebuilder. Now, he's taking the top local leadership role for TEGNA's CBS affiliate serving Columbia, S.C.

It's a new deal that extends the life of the company's affiliation with NBC at 11 Scripps-owned stations. In related news, Scripps Networks' VP of Brand Strategy has been promoted to Sr. Vice President of Marketing for the national arm of The E.W. Scripps Co.

An NBC affiliate that was launched by Pulitzer as a sibling to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that has been associated with TEGNA since its days as Gannett and Combined Communications Corp., which purchased the station in 1979, is preparing to leave downtown St. Louis and sell its home of 40 years.

A heritage television brand that's been somewhat lost in the sea of Korean, Chinese and Japanese brands for a generation is poised to make a comeback of sorts next week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. And, it is all being fueled by ATSC 3.0 digital broadcast technology.

The Commission has started 2025 by giving its stamp of approval to three low-power television station sales agreed upon during the 2024 calendar year.

It is being heralded as a "revolutionary" 24/7 over-the-air gaming channel that could influence video game discovery and accessibility. How so? "Its innovative application of NEXTGEN TV technical capabilities" are one of the reasons being offered by GameLoop TV.

For the last several months, an Atlanta-headquartered publicly traded owner of broadcast TV stations has been referring to itself under a slightly different name than the one used on Wall Street. Now, investors who wish to invest in "GTN" will have no confusion as to what media company they are putting their dollars into.

Entravision Communications is on the hook for a small fine for its failure to upload its programs/issues lists to the online public inspection file (OPIF) associated with a low-power TV station it owns.

In September 2018, the post-Les Moonves era at what was then-called CBS Corporation entered another new chapter. Dick Parsons — the former head of Time Warner — was named Interim Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. Now, many across the broadcast media industry are paying tribute to Parsons, who died December 26 in New York.

The Christmas holiday season is now in the past, but there was one big retail chain that took to Spot TV to target last-minute shoppers in the two days leading up to Santa Claus' arrival across the U.S.

Curiosity Inc., traded on Nasdaq, was founded nine years ago by Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks and his daughter, Elizabeth Saravia. Now, Curiosity is diving into the world of free ad-supported streaming television in a big way.

The FCC has said yes to a request from the NAB for an expedited retroactive extension of the waiver of a rule that requires television broadcasters to provide an aural representation of visual, non-textual emergency information that is displayed during non-newscast programming, such as radar maps or other graphics, on a secondary audio stream.

There's a clear category that's dominating Spot TV in the days leading up to the Christmas holiday. And, to little surprise, brick-and-mortar retailers are responsible for the two top campaigns by spot count, as determined by iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors.

The Missouri Broadcasters Association and Gray Media are celebrating a decision by a Cole County, Mo., Circuit Court Judge that finds a state law passed in 2023 requiring a blanket redaction rule for all witness and victim names in court filings is unconstitutional and unenforceable.