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Cable-affiliated internet service providers (ISPs) are challenging new federal digital discrimination rules in federal court in Washington, the second major legal case to target the rules. The suit was filed Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by NCTA - The Internet & Television Association and ACA Connects, which combined represent hundreds of broadband ISPs, the vast majority of them small.
Top station group executives see deeper fragmentation and more strain on the network-affiliate relationship as upshots of a new joint venture sports streaming service announced earlier this month by Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney. This story is available to TVNewsCheck Plus subscribers only. Become a subscriber here.
The murder of a Navy pilot’s wife went unsolved for 44 years until a cold-case detective used a new method to find the killer.
The purchase grants the retailer access to data as well as more space to sell ads as it eyes growth beyond selling goods.
The broadcasting executive with nearly 30 years of management, sales and marketing experience to lead KRBK and KOZL.
The Comedy Central talk show saw a big jump from the 1.85 million same-day figure.
The tech firm faces increasing competition on the streaming advertising side, as Netflix and Disney grow ad tiers and Pluto and Tubi offer free services, and may get a new rival on the smart TV-manufacturer front.
DirecTV, long known as a satellite company, is launching a new ad campaign that says dishes are for the birds and that they should be streaming their TV. A new commercial entitled The Good Stuff features two pigeons on a rooftop who are surprised to notice a household watching "the good stuff" on DirecTV without a dish. The voices of the pigeons – Bobby and Frank – are supplied by Steve Buscemi and Henry Winkler.
Content executives from Fox Television Stations, NBCUniversal Local, Sinclair and Hearst Television will share ideas on drawing younger audiences back to linear TV and how localism and collaboration can help in the opening panel at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 16. Register here.
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a senior director of sports. Other existing jobs include openings for Sinclair’s corporate engineering team, Hearst’s national consumer unit, Lockwood’s station in Augusta, Nexstar’s Houston station, Hearst’s Louisville station and a SVP at Nexstar’s corporate office.
I believe in TVNewsCheck and I’ve often joked that I enjoy writing the Market Share columns so much that I would do it for free. And perhaps now is the time to do that, at least for a little while.
KAKE, Lockwood Broadcast Group‘s ABC affiliate in Wichita, Kan., unveiled an all-new state-of-the-art set and graphics package during the station’s 70th anniversary year.
Leading executives from NBCUniversal Local, E.W. Scripps, Sage Media and WideOrbit will discuss how station groups are creating opportunities across all media for political advertising in 2024 and how agencies are planning their buys in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch Webinar on March 5 at 1 p.m. ET. Register here.
