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Nexstar announced that Timothy C. Busch, president, broadcasting, will retire June 1, following a 36-year career in the broadcast industry.
Local TV advertising in 2020 was 8.3% higher to $16.25 billion, driven by record high political ad spend. Total TV advertising saw a decline of 8.9% to $66.8 billion in 2020, according to market and media research firm Kantar.
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After rebounding from the recession in August and expanding for the remaining five months of 2020, the U.S. ad economy got off to a wobbly start in 2021, with ad demand declining 4.6% in January vs. the same month in 2020, according to MediaPost.
Scripps is planning to create new national lifestyle networks that will leverage its recent $2.65 billion acquisition of national broadcast company ION, sources tell Axios.
NBCUniversal has a new advanced advertising agreement with Charter Communications that will expand NBCU’s U.S. household addressable footprint by nearly 40% to 45 million households, making it one of the largest offered in the market by a TV publisher.
Blake Russell, EVP of stations operations and content development for Nexstar, has spent the past year building out a new newsroom, studios and infrastructure for NewsNation.
Gray President-Co-CEO Pat LaPlatney told analysts today: “Our pacings, which are not necessarily a great predictor of future revenue, are still very encouraging because the gambling category is now pointing to a more than 250% increase over 2020.”
Scripps’ Local Media division reported revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020 of $473 million, up 43% from the prior-year quarter. Political revenue was $138 million during this election year, compared to $15.2 million in the prior-year quarter.
The Ad Council and COVID Collaborative revealed the platform for their COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative, "It's Up To You."
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