TV/Cable News

It's the home of the Spurs, great Tex-Mex food, beautiful museums and gardens, Riverwalk and The Alamo. Now, San Antonio is also home to NEXTGEN TV, with ATSC 3.0-powered broadcast TV signals now being offered for four broadcast TV stations in the Texas market. But, several high-profile stations aren't participating in the rollout.

How much of an impact has OTT delivery of video programming made on U.S. consumers? According to Nielsen, streaming viewership in May 2022 accounted for 31.9% of total TV consumption.

Gray Television has taken a liking to low-power TV stations for use as a DMA fill-in property, and for the coming broadcast internet opportunities tied to the conversion of stations to the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. The company based in Atlanta is buying another one. This time, it is a digital low-power facility serving the biggest cities in Western Massachusetts.

The station's new owner — Gray Television — has purchased a vacant building along 1-270 between Lambert International Airport and the upscale suburb of Creve Coeur, Mo.

He's a household name across the Tri-State Area thanks to his decades as a local TV news anchor. He's also had his hand as a radio station licensee, with stations in New England and in Upstate New York. Now, Ernie Anastos is heading back to the small screen with the coming debut of a syndicated program Gray Television has agreed to distribute. Producing the program is the former morning host of WPLJ.

The MVPD formerly tied to Cincinnati Bell has reached a comprehensive multi-year distribution agreement covering the Nexstar NBC affiliate serving Dayton and Nexstar-owned cable news network NewsNation in both the Gem City and in Cincinnati.

With "Squid Game" cleared for a second season and "Stranger Things" running Kate Bush's "Running Up that Hill" up the charts in every English-speaking country on Earth, one would think Netflix is riding high in the digital video streaming universe. That's hardly the case, and investors will be intensely scrutinizing the OTT pioneer in one month as it rolls out its Q2 2022 financial results.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises is expanding its production footprint with the opening of a new production unit in a marketplace long-known for activity linked to Azteca and Televisa.

Starting June 27, viewers to the Nexstar Media Group-owned NewsNation cable TV channel will have the opportunity to enjoy a new hourlong national newscast as the sun rises along the East Coast of the U.S.

Nexstar Media Group shareholders have voted in favor of all proposal  recommended by the Board of Directors. This sets the stage for the elimination of two classes of Nexstar stock.

WPP media investment group GroupM, home to notable analysts including Brian Wieser, has teamed up with various media companies across the advertising industry to create the new standards. They come on the heels of a joint study with iSpot that "quantifies inflated Connected TV ad delivery counts" while sharing that, on average, between 8% and 10% of streaming impressions play when the TV is shut off, primarily through ancillary devices.

The sports-first live TV streaming platform has added more free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels to its consumer offerings. The addition is part of a strategy to further grow its content — and ad revenue — by expanding distribution of FAST channels on its subscription service. Fubo TV plans to add more than 100 additional FAST channels by the end of 2022.

Bert Ellis is selling a station he acquired from Golden Orange Broadcasting for $149.5 million. Now, Ellis is spinning the Los Angeles DMA high-VHF facility to a religious broadcasting organization for nearly 73% less than what he paid for it some 16 years ago. That said, Ellis collected millions in the FCC's spectrum auction by vacating a UHF facility. The broker in this deal: Kalil & Co.

TelevisaUnivision is attracting attention for a significant pricing and allocation of debt refinancing for its U.S.-based assets under the Univision Communications arm.

Syncbak's free, ad-supported national streaming service has reached new carriage agreements with six broadcast groups. This will bring 18 stations, and five new markets, to the local news platform known as VUit.