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With powerful Hurricane Helene nearing Florida's Big Bend and "Forgotten Coast" ahead of bringing strong rain, wind and potential flooding concerns to Tallahassee, Fla.; and Georgia, DirecTV has launched a Severe Weather Channel and four-channel Severe Weather Mix mosaic, with the latter featuring coverage from an array of local broadcast TV stations.

A 35-year veteran of local broadcast television since November 2017 has served as VP/GM of Cox Media Group's CBS affiliate in Jacksonville — along with the FOX affiliate it operates via a shared services agreement.  On December 31, he'll officially retire from the industry.

For nearly a decade, he's been the Sales Manager for the FOX affiliate serving the Kansas City market. Now, he's heading to Augusta, Ga., where he will serve as General Manager for that market's FOX affiliate — owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group.

"Combined with the fact that audiences turned their attention to the Olympics, many of the remaining media companies were affected by typical August viewing trends in an otherwise atypical month of TV consumption," Nielsen says. "With new seasons of football and broadcast programming on the horizon, Disney, Paramount and FOX all experienced the end-of-summer lull in viewership in August."

The 2023-2024 Stanley Cup Champions, which announced on July 2 that it will abandon Bally Sports in favor of over-the-air television in the Florida markets not tied to the Tampa Bay Lightning, have formally rolled out its streaming platform — a partnership that involves Scripps Sports.

He was most recently the Chief Technology Officer at Allen Media Broadcasting, an arm of Allen Media Group. Now he has resurfaced at one of the nation's leading video systems integration and consulting firms as Director of Business Development and Technology.

There's a dominant leader atop the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report, and it is the OTT service that is home to Thursday Night Football and an array of scripted originals including Fallout.

She began her career as a sales assistant for Petry Television some 30 years ago and has also been an account executive for the ABC affiliate serving Bakersfield. Since August 1998, she has been linked to the CBS and FOX stations serving this southern San Joaquin Valley city. Now, she will lead those stations for owner Sinclair Inc.

The General Manager for the stations that comprise CBS Colorado will be adding similar duties for the Paramount Global properties that make up CBS Los Angeles by earning a promotion to Regional GM, effective October 14. The change for Tim Wieland comes alongside the coming departure of Joel Vilmenay.

Corus Entertainment has completed an agreement to amend its credit agreement with its bank group, led by TD Securities and RBC Capital Markets — a move that increases its debt-to-cash flow ratio. At the same time, Corus is moving forward with the launch of new lifestyle networks launching in Canada on December 30.

A Weigel Broadcasting digital multicast network known for showcasing female heroines in "proven procedural dramas" is now available to DirecTV consumers, as it was added to the lineup on Tuesday.

Video consumers who use The Roku Channel have gained access to the ad-supported version of the AMC+ over-the-top platform, provided they subscribe to it and pay a monthly fee.

Harker Bos Group's latest State of Spanish-Language Media 2024 report is chock full of takeaways that are of value to all across the television industry. Sean Bos, VP of Branding and Research at Harker Bos Group, discusses the findings, which are heavy on cable and streaming consumption, on this latest InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM.

In a month that saw the Olympic Games Paris 2024 across both NBC and Telemundo and numerous breaking news stories, broadcast TV's total share of the viewing pie came in lower than that of cable television. That said, streaming is clearly the dominant way U.S. consumers are watching video content.

The Nexstar Media Group-owned broadcast TV station serving the Hampton Roads region of Virginia will serve as the host for the October 2 debate between the Republican and Democratic candidates for U.S. Senator from the state.