TV/Cable News

It was only a matter of time. DirecTV, which has been on a media blitz since it failed to secure a fresh carriage agreement with The Walt Disney Co. prior to the September 1 expiry deadline, has submitted a "Good Faith Negotiation Complaint" with the FCC.

A Gray Television-owned station serving the Cape Girardeau, Mo.-Paducah, Ky., television market had gotten the FCC's go-ahead to make a VHF-to-UHF shift.  But, time was running out, and as such needed FCC approval to negate the move. That OK just came from the head of the Video Bureau.

As expected, the conservative-leaning cable TV news brand that is also in the radio syndication realm thanks to “The Newsmax Daily with Rob Carson” has confidentially filed with the SEC an offering statement.  As such, Newsmax expects to conduct an initial public offering "later this year or in early 2025."

It may sound like a bold prediction or crafty marketing language, but the company known for its ownership of National Post, news and entertainment portal Canoe.com and the Sun brand of tabloid publications says it will launch a studio as part of "an ambitious project aimed at transforming the Canadian media landscape" in the wake of the Online Streaming Act's passage.

His resume includes 10 years as a supervising producer covering investigations, breaking news and special events for CNN and, most recently, a position in the CBS Network News Special Events Unit as a producer for the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Now, he's VP of News Content and Streaming for Fox's two Chicago broadcast properties.

The company behind the ATSC 3.0-powered application that turns a digital broadcast signal's interface into one akin to an app on a smart TV or phone has appointed a Chief Executive Officer, and an individual who will serve as its Chief Technology Officer.

The U.S. Salvadorean community now has a free, ad-supported streaming television channel devoted to them, with Spanish-language programming. It comes courtesy of Hemisphere Media Group, the publicly traded company led by Alan Sokol.

DirecTV CFO Ray Carpenter on Tuesday hosted an "analyst call" that served largely as a one-sided pitch defending DirecTV’s reasons for blocking its subscribers from any Disney-owned TV channel in the absence of a new retransmission consent accord. The latest RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, features excerpts from the call.

YouTube moved into the lead among media distributors in the July 2024 Media Distributor Gauge report, Nielsen’s monthly view of total TV consumption by media company. Thank the Olympic Games Paris 2024, which began on July 26, for the big bump, which also positively impacted NBCUniversal.

With nearly all children across the U.S. back to school, or ready for at-home classwork through parental teaching, one large department store chain used the Labor Day holiday weekend to step up its advertising efforts. To lure consumers, it turned to Spot TV.

The CRTC has released its annual highlights of the nation's broadcasting sector, based on the broadcast year, which ended precisely one year ago. How did the 2022-2023 season shape up, fiscally speaking? Conventional television continued to operate at a loss during the period, as total broadcasting revenue was statistically flat.

It's been a difficult 2024 for Loop Media, the connected TV, streaming, digital out-of-home television and digital signage platform focused on businesses. Interim CEO Justis Kao believes there's a turnaround ahead, despite a 94% dip in stock value since the start of the year, a downbeat fiscal Q3, and a NYSE delisting.

She has served as the interim general manager for a FOX affiliate serving Huntsville, Ala., since the retirement of Larry Audas earlier this year. Now, TEGNA has given her permanent President/GM responsibilities for the "Rocket City" station. 

A newly released report on local news from Pew Research Center finds that more Americans get news and information about crime than any other local topic except the weather. But how they get that news — and how they react to it — varies widely.

A TV translator station serving a small town in Northern Nevada that saw the FCC strip it of its displacement construction permit has had it restored. The licensee's application for a license to cover will be accepted, and soon the facility will be back on its way to getting on the air.