As television station owners gathered in Las Vegas this week for the annual National Assn. of Broadcasters convention, they sent an urgent message to Washington that could be summed up in one word — ...

Advertisers have shifted their budgets to digital and away from broadcasters. On the horizon, there is fear that streaming will get more of broadcast TV’s last surefire attraction, the NFL, which can ...

BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sinclair Broadcast Group, a subsidiary of Sinclair Inc., (Nasdaq: SBGI) today announced a new broadcast affiliate distribution agreement with ABC Owned Television Stations ...

Television giants DirecTV and Nexstar Media Group reached a new distribution deal Monday after months of tensions — ending a bitter blackout that lasted 76 days. The two sides had lifted the ...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), today announced that its owned and operated television stations in Chicago, Illinois (DMA #3), Norfolk, Virginia (DMA #43), ...

TV station groups are asking the FCC to amend a rule prohibiting them to directly negotiate subscriber fees with virtual MVPD's instead of broadcast networks. The current law is based on the 1992 ...

Gray Media will acquire ABC-Fox-CBS-NBC affiliate stations in 10 markets owned by Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group for $171 million. Stations in the deal include ABC’s WAAY in Huntsville, Alabama, and ...

Local stations are continuing to push to reclaim the 10 p.m. hour from broadcast networks, a top industry exec said Wednesday. Mike Hayes, President of Hearst Television, was asked during a panel ...

Tuggle said CBS 17 has a “pretty good” newscast, but “they’re just not attracting the viewers,” a trend that has kept the Nexstar station behind WRAL and ABC11 in the ratings for years. But CBS 17 has ...

NEW YORK—Nielsen said it struck a multiyear renewal agreement with Fox Television Stations for measurement across 18 of Fox’s owned-and-operated local stations. The deal also includes Scarborough, ...

On Sept. 29, 1975, the United States’ first Black-owned television station signed on for the first time. Historical Detroit station WGPR-TV 62 is celebrating its 38th anniversary this week. According ...