The S&P 500 index slipped less than 0.1% as of 2:51 p.m. Eastern. The benchmark index notched a record high a day prior. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 121 points, or 0.3%, to 35,721 and is hovering around the record high set on Aug. 16. The Nasdaq fell 0.8%.
Fox News Media is getting into another rough-and-tumble world — the weather. The company is launching Fox Weather, a free streaming service and app that it expects will be used most frequently by customers on their mobile devices.
The firm is promoting itself as having a large market opportunity in presenting an alternative to what it views as the liberal-minded media establishment.
According to the suit by state attorneys general, one senior Google employee said the ‘analogy would be if Goldman or Citibank owned the NYSE.'
Analysis reflects new, more representative composite of U.S. ad spending data pooled by Standard Media Index.
Snapchat execs late Thursday pointed to the supply-chain bottlenecks as a reason that companies will hold back on online ad spend for the holiday season.
There is a small wave of TV journalists who have resigned or been dismissed in recent weeks over their opposition to vaccination requirements. These journalists aren’t much different from other workers who have opposed employee vaccination mandates, except for one thing: They’re among the best-known people in their communities as a result of beaming into homes for years or even decades. Because of their high profiles, the fired journalists have captured local headlines and in some cases have become heroic figures to local vaccine resisters.
TVNewsCheck's Michael Depp talks with Aisha Mills, host of the new show AMplify on Black News Channel, about where her show will sit amid the bombastic offerings in cable's nightly news landscape and her vision for programming that illuminates our better selves.
Signing bonuses for employees outside of the top tier of management are nothing new; they’ve simply come back into fashion as the pandemic caused workers across industries to be furloughed and re-hired, or for those who kept their jobs to re-think their positions and the flexibility of their work environment. The media industry is no exception. With some creative thinking and solid strategy, hiring managers can creatively use signing bonuses to attract new talent at all levels of the company.
Alec Baldwin shot two people, one fatally, in an incident involving a prop gun on the set of the Western film “Rust,” in the Santa Fe, N.M., area, according to a statement from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.
Barbara Lange will step down as the tech society's executive director at the close of 2021. She has served in this role for 12 years, guiding SMPTE through a dynamic period of growth. (SMPTE photo)
Comedian Dave Chappelle’s representatives have said he’s willing to talk to Netflix employees angered by his comedy special, The Closer.
CBS Evening News Anchor Norah O'Donnell told a virtual gala audience, "It is vital that journalists provide information, not affirmation."
Facebook Inc. is struggling to detect and deal with users’ creating multiple accounts on its flagship platform, according to internal documents that raise new questions about how the social-media giant measures its audience.
What’s the biggest threat to the future of local TV newsrooms? The long-term challenge may be how to build a sustainable model around a new generation of consumers who will never watch a linear newscast at 5, 6, or 11. But news directors and their bosses are increasingly concerned about a more immediate problem: the pipeline of talent for both sides of the camera is drying up.
As the business of broadcasting continues to add platforms, pressure grows to produce more content more efficiently. The Weather Company, an IBM business, has responded with a major technology announcement, set for Oct 12. TVNewsCheck and The Weather Company will follow up this announcement on Oct. 28 with an in-depth conversation about what the future of digital weather storytelling will look like. Join us.
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news producer, a traffic coordinator and a digital sales manager for stations owned by Hearst, Nexstar and the Get After It Media network.
TVNewsCheck’s annual conference exploring the intersections of news and technology will return to the New York Hilton on Dec. 14 in a hybrid event that allows audiences to attend in person or virtually. Register here.
A TVNewsCheck half-day conference, to be presented live on Zoom on Nov. 4, will gather industry leaders in production, operations and technology to consider how content production is changing after more than a year of remote production. Executives in entertainment, news and sports will compare emerging best practices and the impact of the pandemic on the industry’s transition to IP and cloud workflows. Register here.
Allen Media Group’s acquisitive CEO Byron Allen is looking at Quincy, Meredith and a TV station group from one of the Big Four broadcast networks this year.
The total drop is pegged to lower political advertising, while the increase in core looks to come from growing sports gambling, improved auto and solid business from categories like legal Read More
TVNewsCheck presented a virtualized four-day edition of its second annual OTT News Summit in 2020, examining the pandemic’s impact on the streaming value chain and how news organizations can take Read More
TVNewsCheck‘s quarterly quick briefing on the legal and regulatory proceedings affecting broadcasters from communications attorneys David Oxenford and David O’Connor.
TVNewsCheck‘s eighth annual NewsTECHForum dove deeply into the news industry’s most pressing technological and journalistic issues.
Larger multicast networks are retaining their viewers while newer players have successfully rolled out distribution.
Nexstar Media Group remains firmly atop TVNewsCheck-BIA Advisory Services’ annual list of the Top 30 groups ranked by total revenue for the second year in a row. It was a Read More
