TV/Cable News

The Media Monitors Spot Ten Cable report for the week ending September 15 shows that two QSRs dominated by spot play across the cable television networks it measures. At the same time, a weight loss drug is now in the Spot Ten, adding some irony to the list of key cable TV advertisers.

Castelli Media, the low-power TV station licensee led by Vincent Castelli, has signed off on an agreement that will see the sale of a TV translator facility serving the city of Santa Barbara, Calif., from a peak above the bucolic Central Coast city.

Publicly traded Atlanta-headquartered Gray Television has landed a multi-year production and distribution agreement with "The Valley," formally known as the Missouri Valley Conference. It immediately takes effect, with coverage starting with the current 2024-2025 academic year.

Comcast's TV ad industry tech platform FreeWheel has moved forward with the integration of Samba TV's standard and custom audience segments into the FreeWheel Audience Manager platform. The product offering is designed to give publishers faster cross-screen audience activation on behalf of advertising clients.

A new report from the VAB shares its definition of what addressable TV targeting is. This allows marketers to use the technology more effectively as adoption accelerates, the association notes. Specifically, the VAB offers the steps marketers can take to launch addressable campaigns, and relevant definitions, among other things.

The controlling interest holder of Cox Media Group is working with State Street on an offering that will include private credit investments. A SEC filing made this morning confirms the move.

It's betting season ... sort of. With NCAA college football and the National Football League each kicking off their 2024 seasons and Major League Baseball heading into playoff mode, wage making is likely to increase. DraftKings wants it to be the place where those wishing to make a bet on a sports outcome will go with their dollars.

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.