TV/Cable News

Emily Matson, a key member of the “Erie News Now” reporter and anchor team, took her own life and was struck by a train in Fairview, Pa., on Monday.

He was GSM of WKRN-2 in Nashville before taking on a bigger role for Nexstar in Southwest Missouri. Now, this revenue-generating local TV vet with experience in Orlando and Houston is heading back to Music City USA.

The parent company of some of the first digital multicast television networks in the U.S., originally assets tied to the now-defunct Luken Communications, has fired up a low-power TV station with five of its offerings in a mid-sized city in the Peach State.

The latest Spot Ten reports for broadcast TV and cable television have been released by iHeartMedia-owned Media Monitors. What's the story for Spot Television? Retailers are as active as ever across the holiday shopping season, while two big pharmaceutical brands continue to spend.

Colorado-based David and Penny Drucker have signed off on an agreement that will see its five over-the-air facilities licensed to Ketchikan TV and a low-power TV station owned by their Denver Digital Television LLC transferred to the fast-growing entity seeking to build a group of owned stations devoted to 24/7 newscasts.

One week ago RBR+TVBR shared the news regarding the sale of KVRR-15 in Fargo, full-time satellites KJRR-7 in Jamestown, N.D. and KBRR-10 in Thief River Falls, Minn.; and FOX-affiliated sibling KQDS-21 in Duluth, Minn.-Superior, Wisc., to Coastal Television. We know now the price paid.

Hitachi Kokusai has completed one of the first deliveries of its new SK-UHD7000-S2 broadcast cameras to a major Mid-Atlantic PBS Member station through Digital Video Group, a longtime partner. The cameras were an essential component of the public broadcaster’s recent turnkey production studio upgrade at its headquarters.

According to a just-released study from SalesFuel and BIA Advisory Services, hospitals and offices of physicians, dentists and chiropractors are top spenders in the healthcare marketing realm. For 2024, billions will go into local advertising — and over-the-air TV is a top media channel when it comes to spending.

According to a fresh report from Parks Associates, one in five U.S. households with internet access in the home possess a television antenna. At the same time, 12% of these households do not have a TV antenna but plan to purchase one within the next six months.

Allen Media Group’s Local Now free streaming service has forged a partnership with VICE Media Group, a move that sees two VICE FAST channels added to the platform.

Nelson Peltz has proven to be a thorn in the side of Bob Iger and The Walt Disney Co. for some time, and just days ago launched a proxy fight with the company in the hopes that shareholders will vote him onto the Board of Directors. Peltz just picked up the endorsement of another key investor in Disney.

In a somewhat surprising move, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has made a change at the top, with the man who has served as its Chairman "transitioning" to a role as a NBCUniversal senior advisor. With Beau Ferrari no longer in the role, it is being given to the man whose resume includes a stint at the helm of Noticias Telemundo.

It enjoys over-the-air coverage via a collection of low-power television stations stretching from the Portland, Ore., market south to the San Francisco Bay Area. Now, a religious broadcaster has gotten the go-ahead to build a VHF facility near the Southern Oregon city of Medford, adding to its coverage in the region.

Yes, the big tech giants are taking a lot of dollars from traditional media. But, one "GAFAN" giant last week invested significantly in Spot Cable, easily topping the latest report from Media Monitors with more than 100,000 spot plays detected by the iHeartMedia-owned company.

A now-failed 2021 acquisition would have created a duopoly in the Fargo market, as Forum is the owner of ABC affiliate WDAY-6. As such, a “Big Four” waiver request from the FCC was needed to get the deal done; that never came. Now, a new owner has emerged for the TV stations. Kalil & Co. brokered the new deal, too.