TV/Cable News

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. 

How lucrative were the Olympic Games Paris 2024 for NBC and Telemundo stations? Based on newly released data from Guideline, the summer games brought home the gold for not only those networks and their affiliates but for all media.

An NBC affiliate serving Boise, Idaho, has been granted FCC approval to upgrade its facility from a VHF channel to a UHF channel. It presents a win for TEGNA.

A CBS affiliate that offers MyNetwork TV programming on one of its multicast channels wasn't able to meet a June deadline for a VHF-to-UHF facility upgrade. It asked the FCC to unwind the deal, thus impacting the Table of Allotments. An OK was just given by Barbara Kreisman.

Can fiscally strained Corus Entertainment, with its shares at 15 cents CDN going into Tuesday's trading on the TSX, benefit in any way from the premiere of new seasons from returning and first-time series airing on its Global television network? That's a question some investors may be asking today.

With college football fans already pumped about the 2024 season, a Gray Media station serving the St. Louis market is embarking on something "new and very exciting" — a free and independent sports and entertainment network.

Unnamed sources have told Bloomberg that the parent of CBS News & Stations is readying the sale of assets — including television stations selected as non-essential — in order to build the company's cash coffers.

From flame-broiled hamburgers to pizza pies and whatever you prefer to call a hoagie, quick-service restaurant chains desire hungry viewers of cable television networks. In the latest Spot Ten Cable report, a pizza-focused delivery service and a chain known for letting its customers have it their way dominate the activity.

The first-of-its-kind BKFC TV, programmed in partnership by Fubo and combat sports entity Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship, showcases BKFC’s "all-time greatest flagship events, BKFC Prospect Series events and BKFC Fight Night events."