Grimes Rises to Hearst Television EVP
He’s held the dual roles of President/GM of the company’s flagship ABC affiliate serving New England’s largest market and as a regional VP overseeing the company’s stations across the region. Soon, he’ll be relocating from Boston to New York and rising to the role of Executive Vice President at Hearst Television.
It’s Official: Trump Orders Tariffs
President Donald Trump has ordered a 25% tariff on all vehicles built outside the U.S., starting April 3, according to a March 26 executive order reported by Automotive News.
ANA Cross-Media Venture Taps Comscore For TV
Aquila, the Association of National Advertisers’ (ANA) cross-media measurement venture, has signed Comscore to be the service’s TV data provider.
Another Strong Week for Pharma at Spot TV
It’s not a secret to market observers that pharmaceutical companies have embraced broadcast television and national spots to help build brand awareness and grow sales.
Padres and Diamondbacks on Free TV
The Arizona Diamondbacks have announced a new broadcast distribution agreement with TEGNA’s 12News (KPNX) in Phoenix to air ten Friday night games during the 2025 season.
Network TV Is Dead. Long Live Local TV
ABC’s split with Berkshire-Hathaway’s WPLG Miami is a harbinger of things to come for local stations. It’s also a prime opportunity for stations to super-serve communities with local content and reaffirm their value.
WSCV Miami Names Liliet Heredero VP Of News & Content
She will oversee the Telemundo station’s news production, operations and editorial across TV, streaming and digital media platforms. She succeeds the retiring Helga Silva.
Hyundai’s New U.S. Investments Supported by Biden’s Carrots, Trump’s Sticks
Hyundai Motor is investing $21 billion to expand U.S. manufacturing. The company will also spend $9 billion to expand production of Hyundai, Kia and Genesis vehicles in the U.S.
Morgan Murphy Media CEO Elizabeth Murphy Burns to Retire
After 43 years of service, Morgan Murphy Media President-CEO Elizabeth Murphy Burns will retire from her day-to- day leadership position. She will become chair of the company’s board of directors.
TV Tech Summit: Industry Leaders Tackle Building Audiences With FAST, Streaming, NextGen TV
Television broadcasters are poised to see ad revenue growth this year when compared to other off-election years but face the dual challenges of encouraging viewers to climb aboard the NextGen TV train and rethinking traditional ingest, traffic, master control and playout workflows to cash in on streaming and FAST channel opportunities.
Reps. Flood, Alford, Boyle, and Soto Relaunch the Broadcasters Caucus
All four have extensive involvement in the broadcast industry that they want to use to highlight the importance of local stations.
Women’s Sports TV Ads More Than Double In 2024 – To $244M
Top brand advertising fell into a similar top category with that of men’s live TV sports programming — automotive ($27.2 million), pharmaceutical ($26.2 million), internet/telecom ($25.6 million), financial services ($24.5 million), insurance ($20.6 million), food/beverage ($20.5 million) and retail ($14.9 million).
Broadcasters Travel Down Different Paths to IP Migration
Top engineers from the local broadcast world gathered for the TVNewsCheck webinar IP Networking and ROI in 2025, to discuss their stations’ different approaches to the 2110 migration. The consensus was that 2110 technology is definitely ready to handle all of a broadcaster’s routing needs, but that a station’s decision to invest in it is strongly predicated on its finances as well as the age and condition of existing HD-SDI infrastructure.
Ad Growth Forecast Cut Again: Economic Uncertainty
Looking ahead, ad growth is expected to average around 3.5% annually over the next few years, slightly lower than prior estimates. While this isn’t a major downturn, it does mark a slowdown from the faster growth the industry has come to expect.
AAA Indians Partner With Nexstar In Indianapolis
The Indianapolis Indians (the Triple-A baseball affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates) announced that 15 games from Victory Field will be broadcast live to fans across Central Indiana during the 2025 season in partnership with Nexstar Media’s WXIN (Fox59), WTTV (CBS4) and The Dot in Indianapolis.
KDKA GM Retires, CBS Names Replacement
KDKA-WPKD Pittsburgh GM Chris Cotugno will retire next month and will be succeeded by Julie Eisenman.
Broadcast Is TV’s Primary Reach Engine
The 2025 Media Comparisons Study, conducted by GfK/NIQ and commissioned by TVB, confirms that broadcast television remains the most effective medium for reaching registered voters.
John Palmer Upped To Cox Jacksonville TV Director Of Sales
Cox Media Group (CMG) Jacksonville TV, which includes WFOX and WJAX (WJAX is owned by Hoffman Communications and operated by CMG), announced that John Palmer will become its new director of sales on March 17.
Morgan Murphy Media to Broadcast 13 Milwaukee Brewers Games in Wisconsin Markets
WISC Madison and WKBT La Crosse/Eau Claire will broadcast the games to viewers in southcentral and western Wisconsin free for the viewer bringing local Major League Baseball games back to local TV.
Atlanta Braves Spring Training Games To Air in Spanish On Gray Media’s Southeast Telemundo Affiliates
For the first time, Atlanta Braves fans will be able to watch two Spring Training games in Spanish on Telemundo this March. As an extension of its broadcast deal to exclusively air 10 Atlanta Braves Spring Training games in 2025, Gray Media will air two of these games simultaneously in Spanish across its 21 Telemundo Affiliate Stations across the Southeast.