TV/Cable News

"The world's largest asset manager" has disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has snapped up a sizable percentage of publicly traded stock associated with a media company that recently shed all of its radio properties and canceled the Pickler & Ben syndicated TV program in order to focus on being a station operator.

It's hardly a secret that the Mike Bloomberg for President campaign has emerged as a major spending machine on broadcast TV. Now, the Bloomberg campaign is ramping up its activity on spot cable, surpassing 40,000 spot plays for the week ending March 1.

The FCC released a public notice that deals with the attempts of several broadcasters to support their advertisers, while at the same time filling advertising inventory holes that have been created by the cancellation of other advertising schedules. Wilkinson Barker Knauer partner David Oxenford explains why the Media Bureau issued it, and how it effects Lowest Unit Charge calculations.

The NAB notes that more than 294,000 PSAs aimed at helping educate Americans about preventing the spread of the virus have aired on broadcast TV and radio.

The FCC on April 1 released a NPRM seeking comment on whether to make technical changes to its rules governing the use of distributed transmission system (DTS) technologies in order to help the broadcast television industry expand DTS use as it deploys the ATSC 3.0 NEXTGEN TV broadcast television standard. Comment and Reply Comment Dates are now in place.

The new three-year agreement will be presented to the SAG-AFTRA National Board of Directors for its approval, to be followed by a member ratification vote. Negotiations began April 27 and concluded June 11.

Since 2013, he's been the GSM at the ABC affiliate serving the Treasure Coast and Palm Beach County.  Now, he's heading to the dual market of Plattsburgh, N.Y. and Burlington, Vt. to lead the Hearst Television duopoly a short drive south of Montréal.

A retrans impasse with The E.W. Scripps Co. - its first-ever "blackout" situation - made Dish the antagonist of the Scripps Q2 earnings call on Friday. At the same time, analysts were digesting the second-quarter results for the DBS provider. According to Pivotal Research Group, they were quite good.

A virtual Census 2020 phone bank gets the green light across ABC-owned television stations in such key electorate markets as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, San Francisco, Raleigh-Durham and Fresno. Things kick off Wednesday, in partnership with the Hispanic Federation.

“In the 50 years since CPB established PBS, the organizations have worked together to provide a valuable service to the American people and to ensure that public television maintains the highest standards of quality, accessible to all,” said CPB head Pat Harrison, who congratulated PBS on its anniversary.

The FCC's Media Bureau has lifted its freeze on the filing of television station minor modification applications and rulemaking petitions. Here are the details, including when the effective date may be anticipated.

In the latest Media Monitors Spot Ten TV report, just two auto brands can be found. The bigger story is the department store sector, which spent heavily -- and reportedly suffered from soft Black Friday traffic.

One of Kansas' only independent broadcasters has just seen one of its two UHF television stations placed into receivership. It's a channel that serves both Wichita and Hutchinson with a host of digital multicast networks including COZI TV, Estrella TV, Bounce, LIGHTtv and NewsNet.

"Linear TV viewing is at a crossroads, given the shift away from scheduled, appointment viewing on TV, but consumers are voracious when it comes to wanting to stay informed," Nielsen says in a new report released for the virtual NATPE Miami conference. "That elevates the opportunity for news programming across local, national and cable."

On Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, Rich Boehne stepped aside as CEO of The E.W. Scripps Co., yielding the position to Adam Symson. However, he retained a role on the company's board of directors, serving as Chairman. Now, Boehne is fully set to retire when his term expires.