TV/Cable News

Having provided over $300,000 in tuition assistance since 2013, the annual scholarship program aims to invest in the future of the broadcast industry and help students from diverse backgrounds.

The National Basketball Association's Oklahoma City Thunder and Griffin Media have finalized plans to air the team's remaining Friday evening regular-season games, yet another arrangement linked to the Bally Sports Chapter 11 restructuring.

In recent years, both TelevisaUnivision and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises poured a significant amount of dollars into bolstering their respective news departments. Now an owner of Univision-affiliated TV stations has decided to beef up its own newscasts, adding coverage to several broadcast properties targeting Spanish-speaking audiences.

The iHeartMedia-owned Total Traffic & Weather Network (TTWN) is teaming up with popular weather app brand MyRadar for a multi-year partnership designed to bring consumers in the U.S. " a comprehensive traffic and weather television graphics solution."

Omnichannel supply-side platform OpenX Technologies is welcoming a new VP of Product, a position that sees the former head of product at Airfind and ex-SpotX leader act as a connected TV product lead.

Add a Guangdong-headquartered electronics company partially owned by the People's Republic of China to the list of manufacturers of NEXTGEN TV-capable receivers now available to consumers in the U.S.

If you own a VIZIO television and you've opted-in to allow your smart TV's usage statistics to be given to a provider of "currency-grade" Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) data, your viewership of local TV stations will now be included in the information provided to marketers and advertisers.

Breezeline dropped Draper's CBS affiliate serving the Salisbury-Ocean City, Md., market, from the local channel lineup in a host of Eastern Maryland cities. And, it's setting the record straight that the decision was not that of WBOC-16's parent.

Nexstar shares were up a healthy 7.5% in Monday's trading on word that it will control what will become on February 1 the Phoenix affiliate of The CW Network. As news of that arrangement became known, Nexstar also revealed when it will report its 2023 fourth quarter and full-year financial results.

The National Basketball Association's 2023-2024 season is in full swing, and to kick off the new year, the league turned to Spot Cable to attract fans to interact more with the NBA.

After nearly 40 years of service and leadership in local television, the VP/GM of Cox Media Group's flagship television station in Atlanta will be retiring at the end of the first quarter to accept "his calling" to lead the California Modesto Mission within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

It's no secret that heritage MVPDs offering cable television service packages to customers continue to lose subscribers to streaming video services. But, just how many internet households have only a pay-TV service and don't use a streaming platform? Very, very few of them, a newly released study from Parks Associates finds.

Starting February 12, an extra hour of "Get Up DC" will be offered to viewers of the TEGNA-owned CBS affiliate serving the National Capital Region. This will result in a shift of "Great Day Washington" to a 30-minute slot in afternoons on WUSA-9 in Washington, D.C. 

A rating action taken by S&P on Friday suggests that combining Dish with EchoStar, whose primary operating subsidiary prior to the merger was Hughes, "does not solve its financial problems." But, it does improve EchoStar's liquidity position.

The arrangement grants HBCU GO cable, linear, streaming, broadcast, VOD, and pay-per-view rights coverage of all SIAC team sports through 2032 on a global level. Sports include regular season contests for football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and Olympic sports.