AND HERE WE GO AGAIN
This time, it’s Tegna vs. DirecTV with consumers in the middle
Category: Blacked Out
ANOTHER STATION CUTS NEWS
This time it’s Graham Media’s KSAT IN San Antonio
ALTICE SLASHES STAFF AT NEWS 12
“It was an extremely chaotic day,” said one laid-off staffer
CHARTER/SPECTRUM SEEMS TO BE LOSING THE PR WAR TO DISNEY
The blackout will likely be lengthy as Charter aims to fix a “broken system”
DIRECTV TO NEXSTAR VIEWERS: “GET AN ANTENNA”
This could take awhile
LICHT GROVELS: “CNN IS NOT ABOUT ME.”
Which did nothing to put the toothpaste back in the tube
DON’T PRETEND TO BE SURPRISED
So how did two other also-ran cable outfits cover the FOX-Dominion story?
MEDIA COMPANIES HAPPILY STRANGLE THE GOLDEN GOOSE
Bleeding cable companies is only a temporary fix
HUPPERT HACKED
Elon Musk’s vanity project leaves him high and dry.
DIRECTV BLINKS (A LITTLE) IN NEWSMAX STANDOFF
Congressional threats push DIrecTV - but only so far. So far.
CBS NEWS TAKES A SHORT TWITTER BREAK…THEN FLIPFLOPS
The move comes “out of an abundance of caution”
THE VERIZON-NEXSTAR IMPASSE CONTINUES
Nexstar stations and NewsNation still dark along the East Coast
THE WAR OF NERVES HEADS INTO ITS LAST DAY
Will they settle, delay or just let it happen?
FORMER RUSSIAN TV NEWS PRODUCER APPARENTLY FLEES HOUSE ARREST
Remember this picture from back in March? As we reported then, there was a feeling that perhaps Marina Ovsyannikova got off lightly with a fine, a brief detention and, ultimately, house arrest. Ovsyannikova made ...
YOUTUBE TO SINCLAIR: DROP DEAD
Sinclair may have overplayed its hand with YouTube. Customers of the streaming TV service received an email this week alerting them that Sinclair’s Fox Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) and the YES Network will no ...
CNN’S MAJOR POLL DUMPED ON CAUCUS EVE
Since 1988, the “Des Moines Register” poll’s final results have accurately predicted the outcome of the state’s Democratic caucuses. Not this year. The final Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers was ...
JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME
Just hours before a deadline which would have seen carriage of several local stations owned by Nexstar no longer be available in cities in the south and midwest, a carriage deal has been reached ...
OOPS
Thousands of Spectrum customers in Inglewood and surrounding California communities experienced a Christmas Day outage, infuriating sports fans who were eager to watch the much-anticipated Clippers-Lakers basketball game. The cable TV and internet service ...
NEXSTAR SNAPS FINGERS: JOBS DISAPPEAR
It’s 26 years and out for Chicagoland Television, the local cable news channel that was part of the deal when Nexstar snapped up Tribune Media three months ago. And like Thanos in those Marvel ...
CNBC DROPS THE HAMMER ON TWO PROGRAMS
It was a good run while it lasted. CNBC is boarding up the offices of two long-running programs at the end of the year. “Nightly Business Report”, which began life 40 years ago as ...
LEAVING THE CUSTOMERS HANGING
As Sinclair and AT&T try to resolve their difference behind a veil of secrecy, presenting an uneasy truce to that portion of the public paying attention, other areas of the cable/satellite/local world are courting ...
