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As advertisers wrestled to recalibrate their media spending in the pandemic, they didn’t overlook a "seismic shift" to Connected TV platforms. In fact, eMarketer estimates that "CTV" U.S. ad spending grew by 40.6% in 2020. Today, networks are continuing to place a greater emphasis on CTV within their upfronts. What does this mean for broadcast TV and its clients?

According to a Bloomberg report, if one person had to sit down and watch all 525K or so ads run in this year’s presidential...

Hearst Television has officially turned on the lights at Hearst Audience Marketplace, described as "a data-driven audience-targeting feature enabling marketers to use connected TV (CTV), over-the-top (OTT) and programmatic display/video platforms more easily to reach the most specific category of consumer down to zip-code level."

The FCC’s ability to intervene in MVPD program carriage disputes was upheld at the appellate level,

During a roughly five week period in 2020, the Walt Disney Co.'s stock value surged to a price upward of $170. The company's shares were buoyed, in part, by Pfizer’s successful Phase-3 vaccination trial and Disney’s second Direct-to-Consumer investor day. Nearly one year later, MoffettNathanson Senior Analyst Michael Nathanson notes, "the stock is seemingly stuck in neutral." What's wrong?

Nothing wrong with a little profit-taking: Seeking Alpha reports five company insiders sold Nexstar

The 12-year-old Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement (CIMM) will be getting new leadership within the first three months of 2022. That's because the organization's CEO and Managing Director who has held the dual roles since CIMM's 1999 creation is retiring.

The Broadcasters Foundation reminds us it helped radio and TV folks after Hurricane Katrina.

The last remaining properties tied to Red River Broadcast Co. have been spun, in a transaction that saw Kalil & Co. serve as the exclusive broker in the transaction signed off by Kathy Lau and John Exline. It is a deal that can only be permissible today thanks to the erasure of the FCC's cross-ownership rules, as a newspaper and TV station will soon be siblings in Duluth, Minn.

Ericsson SVP/Technology, TV and Media Matthew Goldman succeeds CBS exec Bob Seidel

In February, an agreement was struck that would see the sale of a pair of South Dakota TV stations to a broadcast ministry. It was a deal brokered by Kalil & Co. Now, the sale — greatly influenced by Gray Television‘s 2020 acquisition of the intellectual property associated with that 33-year-old broadcast station — has just been completed.

With the support of "hundreds" of residents, La Plata County got its wish, as four Denver-market stations can now modify the local satellite carriage TV markets they serve and add this far-southwest slice of Colorado to its coverage area. The FCC made the move despite objections from Hubbard and Hearst.

This week, Atlantic Broadband changed its name to Breezeline. Now, a group of ACA Connects member MVPDs have joined together to operate under a new brand — one very much like the one Breezeline just tossed.

Total TV use as Brian Wieser defines it was down. But, it was far more pronounced among adults 18-49 than among all households. There's a clear reason why this is happening, based on his analysis.