TV/Cable News

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.

The broadcast standards association known as the ATSC is welcoming two newly elected board members, while congratulating a technology consultancy head on his re-election for a second term at the group shepherding the backbone of broadcast data distribution and NEXTGEN TV.

A three-hour educational and informational programming block airing Sunday mornings on a digital multicast channel operated by Weigel Broadcasting in association with CBS Television Stations is coming to fruition, thanks to a programming deal that will bring a host unscripted series to the TV offering come January 5.

With a combined engineering and production team, working with event producer FILM 45 on behalf of the New York Road Runners group that stages the annual 26.2-mile affair proved to be successful once again this year for CP Communications and its Red Tent Streaming subsidiary.

The latest Media Monitors Spot Ten reports for both broadcast television and cable have been released by the iHeartMedia-based ad tracker service, and for the week ending December 8, one of the "GAFAN" giants is — by far — the No. 1 brand by play count at Spot Cable.

The critical decisions broadcasters make in the next year will shape the industry's future. An essential conversation on the subject will be had in a webinar featuring the founder and CEO of Futuri, and the SVP/Chief Revenue Officer of Sinclair Inc. that has shifted to mid-February and will now include Sinclair's CMO.

In the latest arrangement that brings live sports play-by-play to a broadcast television channel, Gray Media has announced that it will bring select collegiate hockey matches to its stations, starting next week.

That's a question the VAB asked in a survey, and it has fresh insights into how many hours per week digital-first video viewers spend watching their favorite TV shows/movies and non-premium user-generated content.

Come December 31, Robin Davis will retire as SVP/Chief Distribution Officer, just 6 1/2 months after rising to the role at The E.W. Scripps Co. This results in a promotion from within to fill the role of VP of Distribution, with Davis' duties being shifted to the current Senior Director of Media Distribution for Scripps.

VIZIO and its SmartCast Operating System are now the property of one of North America's biggest brick-and-mortar and online retailers, as the transaction has closed following the expiration of the waiting period under federal regulations.