New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a media engineer supervisor, a national advertising sales account executive and a broadcast maintenance technician.
Federal regulators need to do more in support of local TV stations that are facing increased pressure for viewers and advertising from unregulated video streaming providers and big technology companies, Sinclair argued in a filing with the FCC in support of Chair Jessica Rosenworcel’s proposal to expedite license renewals for TV and radio stations that provide locally originated programming.
Sinclair will provide hosting at no cost to the public television stations that will also have the option to pass through programming in high dynamic range.
Top technologists from Fox Corp., Tegna and Sinclair, along with cutting-edge content creators, unpack how generative AI will play an instrumental role in future production in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference at the NAB Show on April 14. Register here.
More than a dozen Sinclair-owned TV stations across the country participated in this year’s 34th Souper Bowl of Caring, collecting food and money to donate to local charities fighting food and nutrition insecurity.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
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.
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a national advertising sales account executive and a marketing consultant.
Sinclair Inc. is exploring bringing in an equity partner for the Tennis Channel as well as other strategic alternatives for the network, industry sources confirmed to Front Office Sports, marking a major potential move for one of the most unique success stories in sports media.
The broadcaster’s Diamond Sports Group got tripped up by cord cutting, COVID and battles with MLB over streaming, leaving an opening for the tech giant.
The move follows a pilot program started last summer. Sinclair said: “TopLine combines AI technology with sales research and data-driven presentations, empowering sales teams to extend into new categories, get more appointments and reach new types of buyers.”
Bankrupt U.S. sports broadcaster Diamond Sports Group reached agreements on Friday to televise Texas Rangers, Cleveland Guardians and Minnesota Twins games in 2024, giving it a roster of 12 Major League Baseball teams as it moves ahead with an Amazon-backed restructuring agreement.
The station group moves her from Richmond, Va., to oversee WBMA-WABM and WTTO in Alabama.
In 2019, broadcasting giant Sinclair took a stab at streaming with STIRR, a free service with live channels and on-demand shows and movies. It was once seen as one of the best free ad-supported streaming services on the market. Sinclair, however, is in the process of selling the service, which now offers just a fraction of what it used to offer. The soon-to-be new owner of STIRR is a company called Thinking Media, according to a newly updated term of service page.
The news that David D. Smith, the executive chairman of the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, had bought The Sun has generated alarm inside and outside the newsroom.
The National Content & Technology Cooperative said it represents about 700 cable and broadband operators. NCTC members can use terms negotiated by group’s deal to carry programming from Sinclair, including its broadcast TV stations and Tennis Channel.
WJLA today announced the promotion of Scott Thuman to evening anchor of 7News On Your Side. He joins the award winning team of Michelle Marsh, First Alert Chief Meteorologist Veronica […]
Sinclair said it reached an agreement to renew all of its Fox affiliations. The new deal covers stations in 41 markets, serving 19 million TV households.
Prime Video will become the primary partner through which consumers can purchase streaming services from the largest U.S. operator of regional sports networks under a framework for a reorganization plan set to allow the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The media company’s executive chairman said he acquired Baltimore Sun Media from the investment firm Alden Global Capital in a private deal reached last Friday. He did not disclose how much he paid in the agreement. Smith bought the paper with his own assets independently of Sinclair. He said, however, that there could be partnerships between the two brands in the future. He will remain the executive chairman at Sinclair.
The company ups more than 30 executives. CEO Chris Ripley recognizes “their outstanding contributions, we also reinforce our commitment to cultivating and promoting top-tier talent within Sinclair as we continue to evolve and transform our organization.”
He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of Sinclair’s comprehensive legislative and regulatory strategy to support the station group’s policy and advocacy goals.
Roxi, the U.K. based music video service launching in the U.S. in the first quarter, is working with Sinclair to orchestrate three interactive music video channels using the new ATSC 3.0 technology early this year. Sinclair is handling advertising sales and other business and technical aspects of the channel, including distributing it in markets where Sinclair does not own TV stations.
He moves up from the company’s sports and digital offerings to oversee sales and revenue growth strategies for all of Sinclair’s television stations; networks, including Tennis Channel; and Compulse, Sinclair’s marketing technology and managed services company.
The former NAB executive will oversee the company’s “comprehensive legislative and regulatory strategy to support the policy and advocacy goals.”
Comet and Charge! are now available on CBS Affiliates in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco while TBD and The Nest can be seen on KCAL Los Angeles.
Metadata Is Key To Archive Monetization
Executives from Fox News, Sinclair and Hearst Television discussed efforts underway to organize and capitalize on their massive archives at last week’s NewsTECHForum, where efficient — and more potentially inexpensive — methodologies are beginning to emerge.
From Remote News Producers To Camera-To-Cloud Workflows, Broadcasters Chase Agility In Studio And Field
Tech leaders from CNBC, Fox Television Stations, Gray Television and Sinclair told a NewsTECHForum audience earlier this week that flexibility and speed are driving their implementation of a range of new technology, from LED displays and AR graphics to more expansive remote production and use of the cloud.
A series of television stations serving the El Paso market in Texas have begun broadcasting with NextGen TV, a new digital broadcast technology. The launch includes KVIA-TV (ABC), KDBC-TV (CBS), KTSM-TV (NBC), KFOX-TV (FOX) and KTDO (Telemundo).
Sinclair has made changes to how Tulsa, Okla., ABC affiliate KTUL produces local news. The station group has moved news production for the station to a hub system it shares with its KOKH Oklahoma City.
Top executives from Tubi, Tegna, Sinclair, Cisco and Lawo told a TVNewsCheck webinar Tuesday that hybrid technology architectures and business models would be a major dynamic in 2024, along with an expanding and promising use of generative AI that also compels great caution. To watch the video of the full webinar, click here.
He will oversee the company’s strategy to make Tennis Channel’s television network available directly to customers via a new streaming platform, planned for 2024.
Leading executives from Sinclair, Fox News, Hearst Television and Newsbridge will share the latest technologies and methodologies they’re employing to harness the full content potential of their vast archives for new shows and revenue streams in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum conference at the New York Hilton on Dec. 12. Register here.
While Major League Baseball’s owners stole the headlines this week when they voted to approve the Oakland Athletics’ move to Las Vegas, the cogs behind another potentially transformative development for the sport churned away in a Houston courtroom. Judge Christopher Lopez of the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of Texas approved a deal between Diamond Sports and the NBA teams whose games it is under contract to broadcast on its Bally Sports networks. In the process of petitioning the judge to approve that pact, a lawyer for bankrupt Diamond Sports suggested the company hopes to come to a similar agreement with the 12 MLB teams whose games it is still contractually obligated to broadcast. But lawyers for both Diamond Sports’s parent company, Sinclair, and MLB raised concerns with the NBA deal, centered on its effect on the company’s ability to pay for its baseball obligations, even through next season.
A former Sinclair employee has sent a letter to the FCC, asking it to revoke the stations group’s licenses over “questions about Sinclair’s commitment to journalistic integrity, diversity, and compliance with FCC regulations.”
The move, on Jan. 1, 2024, spells the end not only of national Spanish-language programming but also the region’s lone, locally produced TV newscast in Spanish.
Sinclair ABC affiliate KTUL announced that all news the station airs will soon be produced out of co-owned KOKH-KOCB Oklahoma City, although some local content from Tulsa-based reporters will still be featured, the company said.
Sports, FAST Channels Are Bright Spots For Broadcasters In A Down Quarter
Until 2024’s political windfall machine can kick in, TV groups have been leaning into revenue opportunities from sports rights and streaming prospects like FAST channels, where the breakeven mark is getting closer.
News technology leaders from CNBC, Sinclair, Gray Television and Fox Television Stations will discuss the transformative changes to studio design and production along with dramatic leaps in field production technology in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum in New York on Dec. 12. Register here.