Headlines
Buying Up More Stations: Is There A Real Media Plan To Compete?
News that Sinclair Inc. -- one of the two biggest owners of U.S. TV stations -- bought an 8% stake in midsized TV station operator E.W. Scripps should not come as a surprise to anyone.
Scripps Sends Mixed Messages in Response to Possible Sinclair Deal
The company said it will consider all value-enhancing transactions while stressing it “will take all steps appropriate to protect” shareholders and the company” “from the opportunistic actions of Sinclair or anyone else”
Mergers & Acquisitions
Connoisseur Media To Sell 15 Missouri Stations to Carter Media
Ahead of today’s reopening of the FCC’s Licensing and Management System after almost fifty days and days after declaring the company’s exit from the Bakersfield market, Connoisseur Media revealed it is divesting fifteen Missouri radio stations to Carter Media.
Television
Comscore’s Jon Carpenter On Why Local TV’s Real Challenge Isn’t Fragmentation
“The easy answer is audience fragmentation — but that only scratches the surface,” says Jon Carpenter, CEO of Comscore. “What we’re really seeing is a deeper challenge: the need for broadcasters to fully demonstrate the total value of their audiences to advertisers across every platform where they engage.”
Radio
How Wyoming Stations Keep The Focus On ‘Community Driven’ Radio.
Like many smaller-market radio stations nationwide, those across Wyoming are dealing with how to continue offering live and locally based programming in a cost-cutting environment.
FCC
December 17 Comment Date Set in 2022 Quadrennial Review Looking at Local Ownership Rules – What is at Stake, Particularly for Radio?
Wasting no time following the reopening of the government, the FCC has published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the 2022 Quadrennial Review in the Federal Register, setting December 17 as the deadline for initial comments on the questions asked by the FCC.
Media
M&A, Consolidation Prospects Loom Over This Season’s Earnings
Sinclair, Nexstar, Gray and Fox all signaled they’re eyeing growth; sports were a bright spot amid the downward pressures of an off-election year.