Weigel & Morgan Murphy’s WISC To Bring Milwaukee Bucks Games Back To Free Over-The-Air TV In Madison

Ten games will be available on WISC’s 3.1 and 3.2 channels beginning Feb. 23.

Griffin, Gray, Morgan-Murphy Get NBA TV Rights For The Thunder

All Friday night games during the remainder of the 2023-24 regular season will be available for free, over the air via Griffin stations in Oklahoma City and Tulsa as well as other regional stations.

Morgan Murphy Media General Counsel Richard Burns To Retire

Longtime media attorney Jonathan Allen will succeed him at the end of the year.

TV2025

Station Groups Ready Up For Gen AI’s Industry Transformation

Leaders from Gray Television, Graham Media Group, Morgan Murphy Media and Ticker in a TV2025 panel this week shared how they’re already experimenting with using generative AI in news production and the guardrails they’re developing around its use.

TV2025: A C-Suiter’s Guide To AI

Executives from Gray Television, Morgan Murphy Media, Graham Media Group, Ticker and Newsbridge will break down the key elements of AI’s rapidly widening role in broadcast TV and what the C-suite needs to know about the business implications in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s TV2025: Monetizing the Future conference at the NAB Show New York on Oct. 25. Register here.

Morgan Murphy Media Buying TV, Radio Properties In Michigan

The purchase of eight stations from Marks Media Group includes WBKB-TV, WBUP-TV and WBKP-TV.

Toya Washington Rejoins Morgan Murphy Media As Anchor/Reporter Coach

Journalist Toya Washington is joining Morgan Murphy Media to coach and mentor anchors and reporters across the company. For Washington, this is a return to Morgan Murphy Media after interning, […]

Waymark & Morgan Murphy Media Expand Commercial Production Agreement

Morgan Murphy Nedua is rolling out Waymark IP across all its TV and radio stations nationally after a pilot program, allowing the creation of AI-generated ads in minutes.

Morgan Murphy Starts Programs To Attract, Train Station Staffers

Morgan Murphy Media said it is launching two programs aimed at attracting and training TV journalists and other station staffers. “Throughout our history, the company’s success has been rooted in the quality of our people,” said Brian Burns, Morgan Murphy EVP and chief operating officer. “These investments are unique in our  industry and are intended to send a strong message — Morgan Murphy Media is committed to your growth.” One of the programs offers beginning journalists an opportunity to pay back student loans.

Dish Faces New Deadline Tonight For 12 Local Channels

Dish Network tonight could lose 12 stations in seven markets due to a carriage dispute with their owner, Morgan Murphy Media.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for an IT manager, a sales and management chief, a digital product manager, a graphic artist, a general manager, a weekend evening and morning co-anchor/MMJ and a weekend meteorologist/MMJ.

Brook Arnold To Succeed Danny Thomas As KOAM GM

The sales executive will oversee Morgan Murphy Media’s CBS affiliate in Joplin, Mo.-Pittsburg, Kan., beginning Oct. 18.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for an account executive, a director of streaming TV, a Microsoft Full Stack engineer, a social media/digital content manager, a digital sales manager, a news producer and a broadcast maintenance technician.

MARKET SHARE

Morgan Murphy Stations Fighting Vaccine Hesitancy

TVN FOCUS ON BUSINESS

TVN Focus On Business | TV Recruiting Faces Pandemic Challenges

TV stations are still hiring during the pandemic, but HR executives say they’ve had to get creative in their largely virtual environments, turning to social media and marketing tools to fill key positions, particularly account executives, producers and executive producers.

DMA 202: VICTORIA, TX

Aguilar New Morgan Murphy GM In Victoria

He joins from Tegna’s Abilene, Texas, duopoly to lead Morgan Murphy Media’s KAVU (ABC), KVCT (Fox), KXTS (CBS), KMOL (NBC), KVTX (Telemundo) and KUNU (Univision) in Victoria, Texas.

Leadership Changes At Morgan Murphy Media

The family-owned station group appoints a new GM, VP of news, news director and talent/team development director.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

News, Weather Openings In Calif., DC, Texas, Va.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s MediaJob Center include openings for an investigative producer, a news director, a chief meteorologist and a technical media producer.

RETRANS

WISC Madison Blacked Out On U-verse

WISC, the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisc., has been blacked out to U-verse subscribers because of a retransmission consent dispute between station owner Morgan Murphy Media and AT&T, which owns U-verse.

TVN’S MEDIA JOBS

GM & News Dir. Openings At Morgan Murphy

Morgan Murphy Media, a privately-held broadcast group, has rare openings for a general manager and news director at its Madison and La Crosse, Wis., TV stations. Morgan Murphy is committed to quality journalism, and has won five national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the RTDNA in the past four years, including the top prize for overall excellence in 2016.

TV Broadcasters, Syncbak Create OTT Innovation Alliance

Broadcast groups Morgan Murphy Media, Gray Television, Heritage Broadcasting and independent WFMZ Allentown, Pa., have formed the OTT Innovation Alliance, which plans to “create innovative ways to reach in- and […]

Morgan Murphy Media Selects TownNews To Grow Digital

Morgan Murphy Media, owner and operator of TV stations in several Texas, Wisconsin, Washington and Missouri markets, has chosen TownNews to power its future digital growth initiatives. The company will […]

DMA 77: SPOKANE, WA

KXLY Creates Weekly Drone Feature

When KXLY Spokane got its drone, the staff was expecting to be able to use it to cover all kinds of news stories. What the newsroom didn’t anticipate was how limited the area to fly in was going to be: there are pretty tight FAA regulations around Spokane because of two airports and a military base in the area. Like any good innovator, station executives didn’t let this setback stop them though. They used it as an opportunity to create a new franchise for the station. They weren’t really able to fly in the city, but the area all around — the beautiful scenery of the Inland Northwest — was fair game.

29. MORGAN MURPHY MEDIA, Madison, WI

2016 Spot Revenue: $58.7 million Stations: 7 in 7 markets Coverage: 1.13% Ownership: Family-owned Key Executives: Elizabeth Murphy Burns, president-CEO; Brian R. Burns, VP-COO; Neal J. Oberg, VP of new media.  […]

Morgan Murphy’s Saga Purchase Set At $70M

It’s adding KOAM Joplin, Mo.; and in Victoria, Texas, KAVU, KMOL, KXTS, KUNU and KVTX. In addition, under operating agreements, it will run KFJX Pittsburg, Kan., and KVCT Victoria.

DMAS 151 & 203

Morgan Murphy Buying 6 Saga Stations

It’s adding KOAM Joplin, Mo.; and in Victoria, Texas, KAVU, KMOL, KXTS, KUNU and KVTX. In addition, under operating agreements, it will run KFJX Pittsburg, Kan., and KVCT Victoria.

2 Washington Stations Back On Dish, For Now

With much of Washington state in the midst of a fire emergency, two Morgan Murphy Media-owned stations in parts of the state in the center of the fires approached Dish Network yesterday morning to ask if Dish would put the stations in those two markets back up temporarily while the companies continue their ongoing retransmission consent negotiations. Dish agreed and KXLY Spokane and KVEW Yakima are now back on the Dish system for the time being.

RETRANS

Morgan Murphy Blasts Dish At FCC

The broadcaster says the satellite service is using the same tactics in retransmission consent negotiations with it that Dish complained to the FCC about earlier during talks with Sinclair.

DMAS 73, 83, 122 & 128

Morgan Murphy Sets Retrans Deals With TWC

“With these agreements and cable partnerships our stations will continue to serve our viewers with the best news and entertainment programming in our markets,” said the group’s CEO Elizabeth Murphy Burns.

Chris Cornelius Joins Morgan Murphy Media

The veteran TV executive is tapped to be director of business development. Most recently he was president-COO of Barrington Broadcasting Group.

IB Renews, Expands Client Agreements

Existing Internet Broadcasting clients extend full-service agreements and expand mobile, social, video and development platform services

TECH SPOTLIGHT

Syncbak Moving Forward With OTT Platform

CEO Jack Perry says in addition to developing the platform that stations will be able to use to deliver their programming via broadband to interconnected TV sets, tablets and smart phones in their markets, his company is also lining up national programming to supplement whatever programming the participating stations choose to put on the platform. Preliminary testing on stations is slotted for next month, with the goal of a commercial rollout by January’s CES.