Over the past year, DirecTV has obtained rights from The Walt Disney Company, Paramount, NBCUniversal, and Fox Corp. to include their respective ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox-owned and-operated TV stations in ...

What will happen to NPR, PBS and local stations? NPR and PBS provide programming to local public television and radio stations across the country. The impact on them will be direct and indirect. Both ...

Gray Media and the E.W. Scripps Co., two of the largest U.S. owners of local TV stations, have engineered a swap of stations in five small and mid-sized markets. The move will create new duopolies, ...

Long a safe haven due to a reliable stream of retransmission fees and advertising dollars, local TV news stations are now facing a stark message as their industry faces the same financial pressures as ...

Gone are the days when you could only watch TV by adjusting the "bunny ears" antenna to pick up your local stations. Now, with all the digital streaming services and subscriptions, it's easy to assume ...

Paying for cable continue to be the exception rather than the rule. The modern streaming landscape gives you access to numerous services that are tailor-made for cord-cutting households, as well as ...

The chairman of the FCC has opened another inquiry into a major media company, this time over the relationship between Comcast‘s NBCUniversal and its local broadcast affiliates. Brendan Carr informed ...

Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, Inc. has sold 10 local TV stations to Gray Media for $171 million. The deal, which Gray expects to close in the fourth quarter subject to regulatory approval and ...

One of my favorite Nieman Lab predictions in recent years came from Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. The prediction, “The future-of-journalism ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Allison Perlman is an Associate Professor of Film & Media ...