WGA backs broadcast in retransmission debate
The Writers Guild of America West said that Congress was right to protect local broadcast by supporting retransmission consent, and said that growing consolidation in the MVPD industry and ever-increasing competition make it as important now as it ever was.
ACA echoes Rockefeller in call for SSA review
The practice of combining certain operational facets of local television stations via JSAs and SSAs
Rockefeller wants FCC to apply brakes on TV deals
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has already asked the GAO for a
Fox Sports Regional Networks ups Krolik to President
Fox Sports promoted Fox Sports Regional Networks EVP Jeff Krolik to president of its regional networks unit, overseeing 22 regional sports networks including Prime...
NBC owns Monday once again
It was another wire-to-wire Monday victory for NBC, kicked off by The Voice and finished by The Blacklist. CBS and ABC tied for 2nd...
Union finds retrans standstill rule unacceptable
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has a number of members working in the broadcasting field, and beyond that it is able to see the battle over retransmission consent through the prism of its own situation, and has sided with broadcasters.
McDowell to government: Hands off retrans
According to former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, when retransmission consent was codified, the authors weren’t quite sure how it would play out, and that was a good thing – the market figured it out over time, and McDowell argued in a special article in The Hill, the market should be allowed to prevail going forward.
ABC names 2013-14 midseason premiere dates
The dates are for new series “The Assets,” “Killer Women,” “Mind Games,” and “Mixology.” In addition, the network has scheduled premiere dates for the...
NFL comes through for NBC once again
NBC dominated the Sunday prime time Nielsen contest once again with hot NFL action. Meanwhile, Fox was able to convert an NFL overrun into...
Unusual SSA for Raycom in the Big Easy
Louisiana Media Company, owner of Fox WVUE-TV New Orleans, is turning over certain managerial responsibilities to television group owner Raycom via an SSA. As such things go, this deal is on the odd side.
Analysts agree: Gray hits it out of the park with Hoak
Both Moody’s Investors Service and Wells Fargo have taken a look at the $342.5M deal sending stations
Four syndies surge into 10M territory
The week of 11/4/13 was a big one for the top syndicated programs - Wheel of Fortune pulled 11.5M viewers while Judge Judy, Big...
KRCB partners with NHK for Bay Area multicast
Rural California Broadcasting Corporation’s non-comm KRCB-TV (PBS) Santa Rosa/San Francisco, announced a new partnership with NHK World TV to bring Japanese and Asian news...
Rumors flying about cable consolidation
Is Time Warner Cable for sale? The grapevine sure seems to think so, and the latest talk seems to be pumping up the stock...
Television M&A activity far from over
Wells Fargo analyst Marci Ryvicker has been tuned in to broadcast groups as the Q3 revenue results