Fox Buys Major Stake In Penske Entertainment, Extending Indycar Rights Deal
The media company will acquire one third of the company, which owns Indycar and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, while extending its media rights deal.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:05:14 AM
Charter Shareholders Approve Merger With Cox Communications
The company said more than 99% of the votes cast at a special meeting of stockholders Thursday morning were in favor of each of the proposals required to complete the transaction.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:05:10 AM
Eric Walters Named GM Of KNOE-KAQY Monroe, La.
Gray Media is moving him from KMVT-KSVT Twin Falls, Idaho, to oversee its CBS-ABC duopoly starting Sept. 1.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:05:05 AM
Daily Beast Deletes Article Alleging Trump Met Melania Through Epstein Relations
The digital news site says they received a letter from the First Ladys attorney challenging the storys headline and framing.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:05:01 AM
Paramount Licensing Chief Dan Cohen Steps Down Ahead Of Skydance Merger
Dan Cohen, chief content licensing officer at Paramount, is leaving the company after eight years. Cohens departure comes as the companys merger with David Ellisons Skydance is set to close next month.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:58 AM
Paramount Sees Q2 Bump
Paramount Global reported its last set of financials under Redstone family ownership with a massive jump in theatrical revenue (up 84%) from Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning last quarter. Released May 23, its grossed nearly $600 million worldwide. TV media revenue fell 6% and affiliate revenue fell 7% reflecting an ongoing erosion in linear.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:55 AM
Roku Turns A Profit As Revenue Rises 15% to $1.1 Billion
Platform revenue rose 18% thanks to video advertising and the companys acquisition of Frndly.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:52 AM
Gray Media To Buy Two TV Stations from SagamoreHill
Gray has provided back-office services to WLTZ and KJTV for the past several years. It will seek “failing station” waivers from the FCC.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:46 AM
Dow Drops 330, Nasdaq Loses 7, S&P Falls 24
Losses for health care stocks helped push Wall Street lower on Thursday.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:43 AM
Amazon-NYT Deal Sets New Benchmark As Publishers Fight AI Scraping
Media executives finally have concrete data on what AI companies will pay for quality journalism — and it arrives as publishers mount an unprecedented defense against unauthorized content scraping. ( Image via Ordo Digital )
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:40 AM
Noticias RGV Ends Operations On KRGV Weslaco
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:36 AM
Streaming Ratings: Squid Game, Love Island USA Stay On Top
Prime Videos Heads of State has a strong opening, outdrawing Netflixs The Old Guard 2 in the movie rankings.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:24 AM
Lifetimes Chrisley Family Docuseries Gets Premiere Date & Trailer
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:21 AM
Broadcast Pioneers Of Philadelphia Announces Hall Of Fame & Person Of The Year Honorees
Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia (BPOP) has set its 2025 Hall of Fame Honorees and Person of the Year. The 2025 class will be inducted at the annual Broadcast Pioneers of …
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:21 AM
Warner Bros. Discovery Inks New Post-Split Contracts With Streaming Boss JB Perrette, CRO Bruce Camp
Warner Bros. Discovery entered into new employment contracts for two senior execs, JB Perrette (l) and Bruce Campbell, that extend through 2029 and 2030, respectively. The new deals, disclosed Thursday, are contingent on the completion of WBDs separation into two companies.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:18 AM
Ad Market Decelerates Through First Half, Expands 3.1% In June
The U.S. advertising market saw some bumps up and down through the first half, but overall decelerated, expanding just 3.1% in June, according to the most recent monthly data from Guideline's U.S. Ad Market Tracker. June's growth was less than half the 6.9% market expansion in June 2024.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:15 AM
Hollywood Reporters Shirley Halperin Joins Rolling Stone As Co-Editor-in-Chief; Maer Roshan Becomes
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:11 AM
Anna Gomezs Lonely Fight
As the FCCs sole Democrat, shes been outspoken about protecting the First Amendment. Getting her way has been tough. ( Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP )
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:11 AM
Etsy Turns From TV Ads Toward Search, With AI As The Wild Card
The online seller is making a long-term bet on fashion marketplace Depop as the companys overall buyers continue to drop.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:08 AM
Ed McKay Named Shentel CEO In First Leadership Change Since 1988
He is currently EVP/COO and is replacing Christopher French, who became president in 1988, a 37-year run that saw Shentel expand beyond its local phone company roots to embrace cable TV, cellular phone service as a Sprint affiliate and, most recently, fiber broadband Internet.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:05 AM
Journalists Or Creators? How Media Entrepreneurs Are Reshaping News
Legacy media isnt dead, but journalists are leaving traditional outlets in swarms to launch their own newsletters, podcasts and social media ventures, and they may be forcing a reboot.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:04:01 AM
WROC Shows Teachers Some Love Every Week, Making It Rochesters Education Station
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:59 AM
Wisycom Restructures Leadership
Wisycom SRL,a global provider of RF solutions for broadcast, film and live production, announced a transition in corporate management, appointing Davide Morsianias chief executive officer and Gerrit Buheas chief technology …
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:58 AM
Matrox Video Introduces Matrox ORIGIN Fabric: Enterprise-Grade Asynchronous Media Transport SDK for
Matrox Video has debuted Matrox ORIGIN Fabric, a low-level C++ SDK that “enables asynchronous media content sharing across applications using the most efficient available transport method. This foundational transport technology from …
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:55 AM
Gray Media Buying Block Stations For $80M
The deal comprises WDRB and WBKI Louisville, Ky.; WAND Springfield-Champaign-Decatur, Ill.; WLIO Lima, Ohio, and its associated low-power stations.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:52 AM
TV News Profitability Drops To Lowest Level Since 2010
TV news profitability fell below 50% for the first time since 2010, according to the latest RTDNA/Newhouse School Survey. Smaller markets saw the biggest drop, while larger markets held steady or improved slightly. Website profitability also declined, with only 42.9% of stations reporting a profit and nearly half unsure of their status — making the data less reliable but still concerning.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:49 AM
IBC: Aret & Lawo To Unveil Ultra-Advanced UHD/HDR OB Trailer
At IBC 2025, (RAI Amsterdam, Sept. 12-15), Aret Video & Audio Engineering and Lawo will introduce a broadcast demo trailer at outdoor position 0.A07. This OB truck, the companies say, “combines …
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:45 AM
IBC: EasyTools To Unveil Affordability Revolution In Video Workflows
EasyTools, a provider of software video infrastructure solutions, will showcase products for video contribution, processing, distribution and monitoring at IBC 2025, (RAI Amsterdam, Sept. 12-15) in Booth 2.A48: “Operators are under …
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:43 AM
Corporation For Public Broadcasting To Shut Down Operations After Loss Of Federal Funding
CPB informed employees on Friday that the majority of staff positions will end on Sept. 30, with a small transition team in place through January 2026. It has around 100 employees.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:40 AM
South Park To Leave HBO Max Next Week As Paramount+ Becomes Shows Exclusive Streaming Home
The animated series from Matt Stone and Trey Parker was on the WBD platform for five years.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:37 AM
Farewell To ATSCs Jerry Whitaker
Organizations VP of standards development wraps up a 25-year run. ( Courtesy Jerry Whitaker )
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:33 AM
Broadcasters Show Unexpected Fiscal Strength Against Headwinds
Industry proves remarkably resilient for an odd-numbered year.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:30 AM
And Just Like That Ending With Season 3
The Sex and the City revival series will air its final episode on Aug. 14, which Michael Patrick King calls a wonderful place to stop.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:26 AM
Blue Ant Media To Go Public After Completing Reverse Takeover
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:23 AM
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down
The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:23 AM
OpenAI Secures Another Giant Funding Deal
The venture capital round values the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, and underscores the fierceness of the A.I. money race.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:20 AM
Dow Drops 542, Nasdaq Falls 472, S&P 500 Loses 101
The U.S. stock market had its worst day since May on Friday after the government reported a sharp slowdown in hiring and President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from a number of …
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:17 AM
NFL Deals Red Zone, NFL Media Assets To ESPN In Blockbuster Billion-Dollar Deal
The NFL and ESPN reached an agreement that will place many of the leagues top media holdings with the sports network in exchange for equity in ESPN that is potentially worth billions, sources briefed on the agreement said Friday.
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 2:03:14 AM
Bill Churchwell Promoted To KIII Corpus Christi Weekend Evening Anchor
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TV News Check at Saturday, August 2, 2025 12:04:43 AM
Why WHNS Greenville, S.C., Created A Rare 35-Second Promo
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TV News Check at Friday, August 1, 2025 7:05:08 PM
Former WLNE Providence News Director Allison Gaito Sues Station
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TV News Check at Friday, August 1, 2025 7:05:08 PM
Skydance Responds To Senators: Says It Fully Complied With Anti-Bribery Laws
Skydance has responded to a series of queries from a group of Senate Democrats, declaring that it complied with anti-bribery laws as it worked to close its acquisition of Paramount Global and said it was not involved in CBSs Stephen Colbert cancellation.
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TV News Check at Friday, August 1, 2025 4:04:38 PM
Senate Appropriations Committee Fails To Restore CPB Funding
The committee left CPB out of a fiscal 2026 spending bill markup.
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TV News Check at Friday, August 1, 2025 4:04:34 PM
Bipartisan Senators Push For Trump To Keep Portions Of Biden-Era AI Rule
In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Mike Rounds urged the Trump administration Thursday to maintain some parts of an artificial intelligence chip export framework laid out by former President Biden.
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TV News Check at Friday, August 1, 2025 4:04:31 PM
In wake of defunding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said today it will start winding down its operations after it lost federal funding.
NPR News at Friday, August 1, 2025 4:00:19 PM
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close after Congress pulls funding
After nearly 60 years of supporting public broadcasting organizations like NPR and PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will close operations by early next year. The […]
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Poynter Institute at Friday, August 1, 2025 3:05:10 PM
Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.
NPR News at Friday, August 1, 2025 1:20:15 PM
KDKA Forecaster Kristin Emery To Retire
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TV News Check at Friday, August 1, 2025 12:28:22 PM
Meteorologists Verzsyla To Weekends, Hutton To Weekdays At WTAE
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TV News Check at Friday, August 1, 2025 12:26:53 PM
The Daily Beast retracts story linking Melania Trump to Epstein
On Thursday, The Daily Beast removed an article from its website that highlighted claims that President Donald Trump met first lady Melania Trump through Jeffrey Epstein. These claims came from […]
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Poynter Institute at Friday, August 1, 2025 7:05:34 AM