TV/Cable News

Shawn Oswald's successor has been revealed at the Hearst Television ABC affiliate serving Omaha and Council Bluffs. It is the woman presently serving as News Director of a Des Moines TV station. And, it brings a female leader back to KETV, once-led by Ariel Roblin.

Run3TV enables broadcasters in a NEXTGEN TV world an interface mimicking a station's digital app home screen. It has been covered by RBR+TVBR extensively since its April 2022 launch, but has seen slow growth as stations voluntarily adopt the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. Run3TV has now taken a significant step toward streamlining its implementation.

The nation's largest broadcast television group by station count has inked a "comprehensive multi-year agreement" that sees all of its NBC Television Network affiliations stay in place.

The news organization associated with the main NPR spoken word-focused member station serving Southern California is teaming up with CBS News & Stations' two Los Angeles broadcast TV stations, forging a partnership designed to "significantly enhance local news coverage" for consumers.

Xperi Corp.'s television-focused consumer brand TiVo will be "entering" the U.S. television market, thanks to a continued expansion of smart TVs powered by TiVo with Sharp Home Electronics Company of America.

With Dan Gilbert's Rocket Money brand rocketing to the top of the Spot Ten Cable report for the first week of 2025, a popular QSR has started the year with a fresh campaign that puts it in the list along with only one other quick-service restaurant brand.

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.