TV/Cable News

The 5G Broadcasting Network focused on the development and deployment of direct-to-mobile broadcast communications in the U.S. and around the world led by CEO "SuperFrank" Copsidas has teamed with two low-power TV station owners for the filing of a pair of new experimental 5G broadcast licenses. 

Add the broadcast media company led by President Norman Shapiro and President of Content and Networks Neal Sabin to the TV station owners that will be bringing a slate of the local National Basketball Association team's telecasts to a free-to-air channel.

Once again, a leading quick-service food brand known for its pizza has demonstrated just how important spot cable is to building its sales and revenue. For the week ending January 28, Domino's delivered — in a most-dominant way.

In rural southeast Missouri, Fred Dockins has established himself as an owner of radio stations such as those acquired in 2009 from Randolph Miller’s Southern Star Broadcasting. Now, Dockins is parting ways with his company's lone TV station, a digital low-power facility. The buyer is a prolific LPTV operator.

Privately held Block Communications has debuted a unique newscast-podcast format that features WDRB News hosts Monica Harkins and Julie Dolan. It exclusively streams on the WDRB+ App, opening a new opportunity for consumers and advertisers in Louisville.

The Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Member who chairs the Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair want a clearer understanding of sports media rights in the U.S. They hope to get answers in a hearing scheduled for January 31 on Capitol Hill.

Comcast Corp., the NBCUniversal parent, has reported its Q4 2023 earnings results. The big takeaway as Brian Wieser, the respected media industry financial analyst who leads Madison & Wall, sees it? OTT platform Peacock is powering NBCU, as the linear media assets are experiencing turbulence.

A specialist in analytics for multi-currency, cross-platform advertising opportunities is working with MRI-Simmons to roll out an offering that can "enable the scoring of device-level TV viewing data sets with age/sex propensities" and other attributes for targeted ad sales and pre- and post-campaign reporting.

The Federal Trade Commission has found that the maker of a popular tax filing software, a regular user of Spot Cable and Spot TV dating back several years, engaged in deceptive advertising — a violation of the FTC Act.

In October 2023, Weigel Broadcasting filed a petition with the FCC asking it to adjust the Table of TV allotments — a change that would allow an unbuilt television station to shift its city of license to a small Wisconsin city bordering Shawano Lake. The company has gotten its wish.

A new marketing campaign from Estrella Media's broadcast TV network is built on the theme, "We speak the same language." The goal is to lure viewers to its Spanish-language broadcast network, with new prime-time program launches and a refreshed look for local newscasts in three markets on the way.

Ten "additional" games featuring the local National Basketball Association franchise are coming to the broadcast schedule of the TEGNA-owned ABC affiliate serving the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It's thanks to a newly signed deal between the broadcast TV station ownership group and the team.

A fall season devoid of "typical, expensive scripted programming" was seen. Guess what? "Ratings held in ok(-ish)," say two MoffettNathanson analysts. What could this finding hold for the future of the network television prime-time schedule, and could FOX's approach become the standard at a time when scripted programming "is now the domain of direct-to-consumer" platforms?

From April 2007 to February 2008, she served as VP/GM of WPEC-12 in West Palm Beach. Now, after leading Sinclair Inc.'s television stations in Oklahoma City, this longtime local TV leader is returning to Florida.

The Byron Allen-owned Allen Media Group will not be engaging in any "great affiliation swaps" in five markets where it owns a broadcast television property. One of the stations was once owned by Nexstar and, later, by DuJuan McCoy. The other four TV stations were acquired by AMG from Bob Prather.