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In her first job in television news, Maya Sargent, a multimedia journalist for E.W. Scripps' WTXL, is covering a neighborhood in Northwest Tallahassee. Originally from the U.K., Sargent said her [...]

Long before becoming executive producer of Good Morning America, Simone Swink was an intern at ABC's This Week. On Sundays, she would deliver newspapers to George Stephanopoulos, who had recently [...]

In 1971 a young analyst at Loeb, Rhoades & Co. named Mario J. Gabelli wrote that he was recommending broadcasters Capital Cities Communications, Cox Broadcasting, Metromedia and Taft Broadcasting to [...]

If you were going to pick a time to be the new CEO of a broadcast company, you might not have chosen 2017, amid cord-cutting, new streaming competition and the [...]

NextGen TV has been on the air in Detroit for more than three years. At this point, not too many people are tuningin, but broadcasters there are using the market [...]

Alisa Bowen, president of The Walt Disney Co.'s premium streaming service Disney Plus, is known as someone who gets difficult jobs done. 'She's been here from the beginning, from before [...]

After a year in which strikes kept actors from appearing at upfront events, 2024 looked like a battle of the network stars, as if big names equaled great content. Tech [...]

Atlanta, already a hub for television and movie production, is getting new studios designed to fill a perceived scarcity in facilities for programs with live studio audiences. Live programming is [...]

Lindsey Woodland, group VP of client data service at 605 and iSpot.tv, majored in math because she likes solving puzzles. 'I still do math today,' said Woodland, who has a [...]

When people hear about something thoughtful Sheereen Miller-Russell, executive VP, client partnerships and inclusive solutions at Warner Bros. Discovery, said or did, they exclaim, 'That's so Sheereen.' Esi Eggleston Bracey, [...]

When Stephanie Dorman joined Mediaocean to run its client support team, the company was a small software startup called Media Bank. 'We were maybe not as professional as we needed [...]

After nearly overshadowing the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers during Super Bowl week, the joint venture newly kicked off by The Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN and rivals Fox [...]

Netflix doesn't have commercials. Subscribers have always liked that and made Netflix the No. 1 streaming service. HBO never had ads. It's not TV, it's HBO, after all. Or at [...]

In the year 2000, Espn Curiel was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Espen Blondeel was born in Michigan. At the time, Espen Blondeel's father, Chad, told the Associated Press [...]

The advertising industry's focus on outcomes is creating very good results for research and analytics company EDO. EDO, co-founded by the actor Edward Norton, measures the effectiveness of ads and [...]

Bob Simone grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, watching WWLP on his parents' black-and-white TV set. Two years ago, Nexstar Media Group named Simone general manager of WWLP and the company's [...]

It's a whole new ballgame in Chicago. Marquee Sports Network, launched on Feb. 22, is the new home of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, promising viewers one stop shopping for [...]

In the beginning of The Walking Dead, Sheriff Rick Grimes--played by Andrew Lincoln--wakes up in an abandoned hospital and finds the world engulfed by a zombie apocalypse. The series had [...]

With cord-cutting eroding traditional linear TV viewing, all of Tegna's stations last year launched local streaming apps, helping them reach a new audience. So far this year, people have streamed [...]

Long before there was YouTube or TikTok, Vin Di Bona, creator of America's Funniest Home Videos, built a business on user-generated content. Now in the streaming era, America's Funniest Home [...]

This article profiles several individuals who have made significant contributions to the television industry. Janice Arouh, Bob Bakish, Philip R. Beuth, Marianne Gambelli, Steve Lanzano, and Valari Dobson Staab have all played key roles in their respective fields. The article also highlights the achievements of George Stephanopoulos, Dick Vitale, and Arthur Wagner. These individuals have made notable contributions to their industries and have been recognized for their work. [Extracted from the article]

There are a mountain of questions of about ViacomCBS's plans to launch Paramount Plus, which might be the last big direct-to-consumer video service to enter the streaming wars. Many of [...]

A lineup of top executives will share insights and best practices for making television advertising more effective at the Advanced Advertising Summit. The summit is being held Wednesday, June 21, [...]

When there's a big job to do, people call on Sharon Levy, CEO of Endemol Shine North America. In January, Endemol's parent company, Banijay, restructured and Levy was Banijay CEO [...]

Perry Sook, chairman and CEO of Nexstar Media Group, says negotiating with Ray Hopkins is like 'watching the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan over and over again.' Jordan [...]

Matt Bond is the Wayne Gretzky of cable programming and distribution deals, says hockey fan Tom Montemagno, executive VP, programming acquisition at Charter Communications. 'I challenge anyone to come up [...]

With the television business putting a premium on being able to identify subscribers and target viewers, Experian, best known as the consumer credit reporting company, is benefiting as demand for [...]

WHEN SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS first appeared on Nickelodeon in 1999, kids didn't have YouTube to watch. They couldn't stream Hulu or check out pictures on Instagram. There was no Snapchat. Forget [...]

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS coming to the media and advertising world, and the changes that have roiled the industry are only going to continue, according to some of the top planners [...]

NEW METRICS AND BRAND SAFETY are just two issues that media buyers who control billions of ad dollars say will be considered before their old-fashioned negotiations determine which networks will [...]

THE DIGITAL CONTENT NEWFRONTS run for just one week this year, but the message will be that more viewers are watching online or over-the-top on digital devices and bigger companies [...]

THE ONLY THING more complicated than trying to count viewers as they consume content on multiple digital devices might be trying to keep track of financial developments at measurement company [...]

For all her success, Suzanne Sullivan, executive VP for ad sales at Fox, says that being in sales was a bit of an accident. 'I'm the introvert in my family, [...]

People who work with Amy Campbell, chief marketing officer for MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks, admire her calm demeanor in a demanding job at a company that's gone [...]

In a twist that makes sense only on Wall Street, media company stocks are being pummeled in part because of weakness in the ad market caused by an uncertain economic [...]

Kathleen Choal, VP and general manager of KSHB Kansas City, has an unusual entry in her LinkedIn profile. In between news director jobs at WGCL Atlanta and KVOA Tucson, she [...]

There are more than 10 million reasons why The Walt Disney Co. chairman and CEO Bob Iger is Multichannel News's executive of the year for 2019. The first 10 million [...]

NETWORK ADVERTISING sales executives are upbeat because, despite cord-cutting and falling ratings, they say demand for TV remains strong enough to continue to push prices significantly higher. This week, the [...]

WITH BIG MERGERS among programmers, and a continuing shift of viewing towards over-the-top, the dynamics of this year's upfront may be look somewhat different than in past years. But not [...]

IN A CHANGING TV WORLD, sports remains a hole in one. As viewing fragments and shifts to digital and on-demand platforms, sports content retains enough muscle to draw large, live [...]

After growing its audience in 2021, Fox Soul has ambitious plans to expand its programming and generate revenue. The two-year-old, ad-supported streaming service operates under the wing of the Fox [...]

FOR THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY'S top strategists and media planners, new technology is creating new ways to reach consumers--potentially making TV advertising even more potent. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Broadcasting & [...]

THE WORD 'PREMIUM' gets tossed around a lot during the NewFronts, as digital media companies seek to continue to attract video advertising dollars that were once earmarked for TV. Digital [...]

AS UPFRONT SEASON BEGINS, television advertising sales executives are bullish, pointing to a strong economy and a rising stock market. In the annual commercial-buying bazaar last year, advertisers committed about [...]

UNIVISION IS GIVING Latino viewers dramatically different kinds stories on screen as the company tries to write a different script for itself--a comeback story. Long the dominant force in Spanish-language [...]

Changes in the way viewers are consuming video are transforming the TV business, not only for programmers and networks but for the vendors providing the industry with equipment and services. [...]

Byron Allen is moving fast in a lot of different directions at once. The entertainer--famously the youngest standup comedian to do a set on Johnny Carson's Towigkt Skoiu--is determined to [...]

A campaign for Hershey executed by Horizon Media won the 2022 Advanced Advertising Innovation Award for Best Campaign, part of an awards program that will highlight the upcoming Advanced Advertising [...]

IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW good the show is if the viewers can't find it. As the TV world changes channels from a world dominated by traditional linear networks to a [...]

(From l.): Chicago Fire's CHRISTIAN STOLTE, executive producer DICK WOLF and DAVID EIGENBERG at NBC's 'One Chicago Day' at Lagunitas Brewing Co. in Chicago CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR (l.), host of PBS [...]