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The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau says it has no issue with the FCC’s administrative law judge terminating a hearing into Sinclair’s representations about the now-imploded Tribune deal, though that apparently has not happened yet. An FCC spokesperson confirmed the decision to cancel the hearing would have to come from the ALJ.
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CBS reached 8.5 million viewers Sunday for final-round competition at the PGA Championship from St. Louis, a whopping 73% increase from the 4.9 million people who watched the same tournament’s conclusion in 2017. NBC won the week in primetime, averaging 4.1 million viewers. ABC had 3.9 million viewers, CBS had 3.8 million, Fox had 1.7 million, ION Television had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1.2 million, Univision had 1.1 million and the CW averaged 800,000 viewers.
The now Vince Sadusky run Univision may be trying to trim costs and staff to stay competitive but the purchase and possible sale of The Onion could result in a whole new set of tears for the Spanish-language media company. That would be at least $2 million dollar’s worth of tears to be specific in a lawsuit filed against Univision and the news satire outlet late last week by financial specialists GCA Advisors.
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Advertising on connected TV is poised to nearly double this year — to $8.2 billion, according to Tru Optik. The video/data management company says it will climb to’$13.3 billion in 2019 and $20.1 billion in 2020. It was $4.7 billion a year ago.
A group of Tinder co-founders and current and former employees is suing IAC and Match Group over the valuation of the popular dating app. Former CEO Sean Rad alleges that Tinder’s parent companies intentionally undervalued the popular dating app to deny early employees billions in stock options.
U.S. retailers and small companies rallied Tuesday as Turkey fears eased. The biggest gains went to small and mid-size companies, which do more business domestically compared to the large multinational firms on indexes like the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial average. Retailers rose, thanks in part to strong quarterly reports.
Despite being in repeats on all five days, in the week ended Aug. 5, Phil still widened its lead over the genre, climbing 4% to a three-week high 2.7 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating.
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A month and a half before the broadcast TV season starts, networks have been increasing new show on-air promotion — with CBS airing promos for six new fall series — the most of any network. CBS’ new version of Magnum P.I. has run 288 spot airings on CBS since May 15 with some 533.1 million total impressions, according to iSpot.tv. That is the highest number of impressions for any new show so far.
Artificial Intelligence is coming to the media and advertising world, and the changes that have roiled the industry are only going to continue, according to some of the top planners and strategists at media agencies. Media planners and strategists make the big calls on the best way for advertisers to reach their target audiences. Their jobs have become more complicated as technology has given consumers more choices in where and how to view content, as well as the ability to skip commercials they don’t want to watch.
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Most recently, Robert Kalutkiewicz was responsible for mergers and acquisitions at Tronc. Now he will oversee Scripps’ growth strategy and identify, develop and evaluate national media investment, acquisition and partnership opportunities.
KGBT down in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas is not only leading on Facebook in market 84, but is outperforming stations in markets that are much larger. “We have 332,881 likes on our Facebook page, more likes than some of the stations that are in the top 20, top 30 markets. I’m excited about that,” says Ronald Marley, KGBT’s digital executive producer.
Democratic lawmakers are putting heat on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai over a recent inspector general report that found the agency falsely claimed it had suffered a cyberattack that briefly took down its electronic comment system amid the backlash over its repeal of net neutrality.
Bachelor in Paradise was the top show in the key demo in the Monday overnight ratings, but was still down from last season’s Monday debut. The ABC series drew a 1.3 rating in adults 18-49 and 4.5 million viewers on Monday night. That is down just over 20% in the key demo and just over 10% in total viewers compared to the show’s first Monday episode in 2017, which was also the season premiere. This week’s episode was up, however, when compared to the season premiere from last Tuesday, which drew a 1.1 and 3.8 million viewers.
When John Malone retired from the boards of Lions Gate and Charter Communications last month, the media and telecom industries shuddered: Was the Cable Cowboy finally calling it quits? Not quite. The 77-year-old billionaire, who helped build the pay-TV industry and now sees it threatened by cord cutting, remains on the boards of eight public companies and has no plans to leave them. He’s still the largest shareholder of Charter, the No. 2 U.S. cable company. Two of his deputies are still directors at Lions Gate, an independent studio. And when he calls, executives still listen. Nothing is really changing, he says. He just wants to spend more time with his wife.
The Radio Television Digital News Association and its Voice of the First Amendment Task Force are calling on its more than 1,200 members and their broadcast and digital news outlets to join the Boston Globe and more than 100 other local newspapers across the country on Aug. 16 in a coordinated editorial response to attacks from President Trump on the media.
Flaherty had the ability to convey to CBS management and the entire television industry the importance of HDTV. He could make a convincing case that the new wide-screen, high-resolution format would produce tangible business benefits.
We live in an era where Netflix is eating the world, where kids and grown-ups alike can disappear down a YouTube rabbit hole for hours on end, where the amount of time we spend watching video on our phones only ever goes up rather than down. In that world, it’s easy to extrapolate to a time where old-fashioned television is dead, killed off by a slew of younger, nimbler disruptors. The reality, however, is that TV’s business model is secure, its revenues are gargantuan, and the barriers to enter its industry have never been higher.
The president is currently locked in a feud with former Apprentice contestant and White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman. Following her claims that she had heard audio recordings of Donald Trump saying the N-word, the president responded on Twitter that no such tapes exist, and cited show producer Mark Burnett as proof.
Experts from MCTV, BIA Advisory Services, RBC Capital and Brooks Pierce to discuss retransmission consent prospects at the daylong conference in October.
