TV/Cable News

In a first, the National Football League is allowing a telecast of one of its regular-season games to be devoid of commercials for an entire quarter. This "groundbreaking fan experience" will be shown not on broadcast or cable TV nationally, however — it is a Peacock-only game airing on Saturday.

Ryan WHO?  For those who seek an alternative to the New Year's Eve telecast airing on ABC, Nexstar Media Group may have a program that suits your fancy — if you happen to live in six mid-America states or 15 West Coast markets including Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tim Kay, Ampersand’s VP of Political Strategy, joins the InFOCUS Podcast to discuss how the fundamentals of political advertising have not changed, but politicians looking to pour campaign dollars into social or SVOD should consider “a mixed media approach” instead.  LISTEN HERE

With the calendar racing towards the 2023 holiday season, broadcast television stations who are preparing for their on-air, online and social coverage of New Year’s Eve can now consider clean and uninterrupted bug/logo/commercial-free feeds featuring official Times Square New Year’s Eve content, courtesy of Countdown Entertainment and the Times Square Alliance.

Broadcasting a parade isn't a simple task. However, when it came time for CBS to air its Thanksgiving Day coverage, the show went off without a hitch. Making the live programming flow smoothly was none other than CP Communications.

Bloomberg is reporting that BET Chief Executive Officer Scott Mills and Chinh Chu, an ex-Blackstone Inc. C-Suiter, are pitching the purchase of the cable television network from Paramount Global. That doesn't sit well with Byron Allen, the media mogul and Allen Media Group owner. He put in a bid, and it isn't being considered.

Jeffrey Wlodarczak, the Principal and Internet/Media/Communications Analyst for Pivotal Research Group, has "modestly raised" his 2024 EBITDA and free cash flow expectations for Roku. This, in turn, led Pivotal to raise its year-end 2024 target price for Roku stock.

"The TV outcomes company" that describes itself as a platform measuring predictive behaviors driven by convergent TV advertising will now be providing Connected TV advertising engagement and outcomes measurement to the nation's "sports-first" vMVPD platform.

HMPG has been a long-time distributor of the Jack Hanna franchise. Now, it is acquiring it all from Into The Wild LLC, building on its current ownership of "Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures."

The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon could be poised to pick up the streaming rights to professional sports teams presently under contract with the bankrupt Diamond Sports Group. How so? Amazon is supposedly talking to DSG about an equity investment. 

Yes, it was another big week at Spot Cable for pizza delivery specialist Domino's when it comes to the amount of spots aired on the networks measured by Media Monitors. That said, two big department store brands have poured money into spot cable this holiday season — a sign that a more diverse media mix matters ahead of Christmas Day.

The broadcast television network controlled by way of a majority equity interest from Nexstar Media Group will be added to three of its stations' digital subchannels, starting January 1, 2024.

With much conversation about generative artificial intelligence allowing radio stations to have "hosted" air shifts via a ChatGPT platform, a nascent tech company is promoting how it can produce a newscast for television — or any streaming platform — fully synthetically. Should TV industry leaders fret, or laugh?

Two weeks ago, The E.W. Scripps Co. parted ways with Marc Jaromin. It marked a change in leadership at WKBW-7 in Buffalo, the ABC affiliate that had been led by Jaromin since October 2019. Now, with Lyn Platinga a regional VP/GM overseeing the station, a Station Manager for WKBW has been selected from within.

Five of the leading broadcast television stations serving the only market in the Lone Star State on Mountain time have launched NEXTGEN TV broadcasts, with a Sinclair FOX affiliate serving as the market's "lighthouse" for ATSC 3.0 powered transmissions.