TV/Cable News

In a bit of a throwback to the day when the audio for analog Channel 6 could be heard on 87.7 MHz, a FOX Television Station is bringing its audio to a HD multicast signal of an Atlanta FM. This time, that audio feed can be found on the right end of the dial.

It is a privately held broadcast media company with television and radio stations in a variety of markets ranging from Albany, N.Y., to Albuquerque. And, it has just signed a new multi-year agreement for local TV measurement from Nielsen in three of its markets.

The Major League Baseball club that won the World Series in 2015 and 30 years before has announced a partnership that will allow ten of its regular-season games to air on Gray Media stations in the team's home market.

That's the somewhat skewed look at video consumption presented in a new report from Statista, which also shows robust consumption of digital videos during the same 12-month period.

Gray Media has renewed its daily, 30-minute news magazine InvestigateTV+ for a third season. The company also renewed the weekend edition of the show for 2025-2026, its fifth season.

So much for an impasse: Paramount has licensed new Nielsen services including Advanced Audiences, Big Data + Panel, Ad-Supported Streaming Platform Ratings, Nielsen ONE Ads for Connected Television, and National OOH expansion to inform advertising, programming and licensing strategies.

A new report from MX8 Labs offers a guide on where growth for over-the-top and free ad-supported TV services, or "FAST" channels, is heading in 2025. The quick answer? Netflix "still has room to grow in terms of consumer coverage and subscriptions," while Tubi is fast becoming a top cable TV replacement service.

What's prompted Chris Murphy and Pat Ryan to team up on legislation designed to reimburse MVPD customers who can't access a channel they are paying for during a "blackout"? Look no further than Altice USA's Optimum MVPD and the regional sports network home to four New York-area pro sports teams.

Could Comcast Corp.'s Spectrum merge with Comcast's Xfinity MVPD offering? While that's a question for regulators in the second Trump Administration, one Wall Street watchdog wonders if it is time for a tie-up, given the Comcast Corp. fourth quarter results released on Thursday.

The Atlanta-based company offering the 365BLK, Outlaw and Defy digital multicast broadcast TV networks to partners across the U.S. has added a fourth diginet to its lineup — and it is one geared toward men who like "high-adrenaline, crime-focused programming."

The 2023 Major League Baseball World Champions shared Tuesday that they've created the Rangers Sports Network (RSN), which will produce and distribute the Texas Rangers’ games and other select content. The nation's largest owner of broadcast TV stations will air at least a dozen of those games on free-to-air TV across the team's territory.

Premion, the TEGNA-owned Connected TV/OTT advertising platform designed for regional and local advertisers, is partnering with GDB Brazil to bring its Octillion Demand Side Platform to the largest Portuguese-language market in the world.

The TV broadcasting company led by Patricia and Brian Lane has struck a deal to purchase stations in two small West Coast markets from Imagicomm. How much Marquee Broadcasting is paying Imagicomm for the stations once owned by Brian Brady's Northwest Broadcasting will remain a public mystery.

Nielsen’s December 2024 Media Distributor Gauge results are driven by "a dynamic month for TV that included the seasonal uptick in demand for holiday movies, a large appetite for football with more games moving exclusively to streaming, and a post-election downturn in news viewing."

An emu can't fly, but Liberty Mutual Insurance is soaring ahead in the ever-competitive auto insurance specialist category when it comes to advertising activity at Spot Cable. That's the latest takeaway from the Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report for the week ending January 26, 2025.