Headlines
What People Are Watching On TV These Days (Hint: It Increasingly Is Not TV)
As far as evolutions go, the television set's appears to be reaching a new epoch -- one that's less about conventional TV viewing and more about other stuff.
How Sales And Finance Teams Can Work Together
Historically, there’s palpable friction between finance and sales departments at media companies, but to get budgets and sales forecasts right, they need to work together. Sometimes, each camp may even grow to appreciate their former foes.
BIA
Updated Top 30 Station Groups: Nexstar Retains Top Spot, Gray Now No. 2 As FCC-Rejected Standard General Drops Off
After the $8.6 billion buyout of Tegna by Standard General was derailed by the FCC at the end of May, Gray steps into second place behind No. 1 Nexstar. Tegna, Sinclair and Fox round out the top 5.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Beasley To Move Out Of Delaware After Wilmington Signal Sale
Beasley Media Group is selling its lone signal in Wilmington, DE, WJBR, to Christian broadcaster VCY America.
Television
Cord Cutting Continues to Plague Pay TV
Largest pay-TV providers lost more than 1.7 million subscribers in Q2, according to LRG
Fox Television Stations Announces Newly Restructured Advertising Sales Division
Fox Television Stations (FTS) is restructuring its Advertising Sales division, merging its local, national and digital sales efforts into one streamlined unit, the company said in a press release.
Radio
A Station’s Main Channel Is Usually the Most Profitable
So make sure you’ve maximized it, even if exploring exotic options
How To Use Radio Right
Hungry people look for food. Sad people look for hope. Ambitious people look for opportunity. Oppressed people look for escape. But if food is available and you are neither sad nor oppressed and your ambition is — for now, at least — satisfied, you are contented.
Contented people look for entertainment.
Tech
X, formerly Twitter, slowed down access to Threads, The New York Times, Bluesky and more
X, formerly known as Twitter, was throttling traffic to websites that the social network’s owner Elon Musk publicly dislikes.
CTV/OTT
Three Good Reasons For Local TV Stations To Go FAST
Free Ad-Supported Television, or simply FAST, channels are garnering a lot of attention these days, and there seems to be at least three good reasons local TV broadcasters should seriously consider launching their own.