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He was an award-winning journalist who became an iconic television figure in Southwestern Virginia. Now, many are paying tribute to Mark Spain, who has died at the age of 64 after a bout with cancer.

Comscore is "expanding its partnership" with the Atlanta-headquartered broadcast television company led by Hilton Howell Jr. and Pat LaPlatney.

Introducing "WNPT-VC," a new virtual ATSC 3.0 channel that's just been launched in Music City U.S.A. thanks to a partnership between Nashville PBS and the company that is leading the charge on the transition from ATSC 1.0 digital TV broadcasts: Sinclair Inc.

The privately held company that has proven to be a champion of new television broadcasting technology is now transmitting content in High Dynamic Range (HDR) via the FOX affiliate it owns in North Carolina's Triangle region.

For decades there's been little debate as to what station dominates the South Florida ratings for local news and FOX Sports' NFL coverage. Now, that station's owner is ensuring data provided by Nielsen only reinforces this fiercely independent broadcast property's strength in the Miami DMA — in addition to its Boston sibling.

KLAS-8 will serve as host for “Coast-to-Coast Countdown to 2025,” billed as an exclusive live New Year’s Eve special airing from 11pm Eastern on December 31 through 3:30am Eastern on January 1, allowing viewers in each time zone in the continental U.S. to enjoy a live countdown to 2025.

The competition will be available on The Roku Channel’s recently launched Roku Sports Channel. In addition, Roku has launched X Games TV FAST channel and will curate a dedicated X Games Zone, a destination for fans to browse, discover, and stream everything X Games, including programming highlights, clips, interviews, and archival content.

While FOX enjoyed consumption gains from its coverage of the 2024 World Series, which saw the New York Yankees lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers; NFL regular-season games and coverage of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, it is YouTube's popularity with consumers that broadcast TV leaders should note.

Sinclair Inc.'s local news content-focused streaming service NewsON has upgraded its app on the Roku platform, with new features and an updated user interface now available for its users.

The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV and Spot Ten Cable reports are out, and for broadcast TV's national activity, there's no bigger advertiser by play count for the week ending December 15 than the venerable department store chain that sponsors the most famous Thanksgiving Day parade in the world.

Cox Media Group (CMG) will continue to be getting cross-platform viewership measurement data and advanced audience insights from a company that seeks to vigorously compete against dominant competitor Nielsen.

Veteran journalist Chris Cuomo will be staying a little longer at the MVPD-distributed news and political talk network owned by Nexstar Media Group, thanks to a fresh multi-year agreement announced on Monday.

The standards body for all 5G standards has approved interleaving, giving it a potentially big boost. That's a big deal for broadcast television station owners who aren't keen on ATSC 3.0, says "SuperFrank" Copsidas, the low-power TV entrepreneur championing "5GB" in the U.S.

Top TV streaming platform Roku has expanded an existing programming partnership with a Comcast division, with a new agreement in place that makes Roku content such as The Roku Channel available to FreeWheel demand partners.

The NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves will see five of their home games across the 2023-2024 season air on the NBC affiliate serving the Twin Cities owned by TEGNA. It's the latest instance where pro sports play-by-play is heading to a free over-the-air television home at time when cord-cutting and cost-trimming is high.