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Optimum forced to drop WPIX, other Nexstar-owned TV channels
8 hours ago · “In any given month, 90 percent of customers – more than 1.2 million – never tune in to NewsNation, making it unfair to force customers to pay tens of millions of dollars for content they never watch and hold them hostage to force carriage of broadcast stations,” the spokesperson said.“Despite NewsNation’s shockingly low viewership, Nexstar has taken this one step further by ...
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Fire reaches Mt. Wilson, location of Los Angeles radio, TV towers
1 day ago · Live Video: Los Angeles TV broadcasters cover Southern California wildfires The site is the location of television transmitters used by nearly all radio and television stations in the Los Angeles area, including KCBS-TV (Channel 2), KNBC (Channel 4), KTLA, KABC (Channel 7), KCAL (Channel 9), KTTV (Channel 11, Fox), KCOP (Channel 13), KMEX-DT (Channel 34, Univision), KVEA (Channel 52, Telemundo ...
Disney, Fox donate millions to Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts
6 hours ago · A number of media and entertainment companies are donating money and effort to disaster relief organizations as the wildfires in Southern California continue to rage on. On Friday, the Walt Disney Company said it was donating $15 million to a number of not-for-profit organizations and disaster ...
Roku surpasses 90 million streaming TV households
3 days ago · The Roku Ultra comes with WiFi 6E, AI-driven enhancements and a backlit, rechargeable remote control. (Courtesy image) Streaming hardware and platform developer Roku provided the industry with an early preview into its fourth quarter (Q4) growth on Tuesday, revealing that the company reached 89.8 million streaming TV households around the world by the end of December.
EdgeBeam Wireless: TV broadcasters datacast over ATSC 3.0
3 days ago · The broadcasters — Nexstar Media Group; the E. W. Scripps Company; Sinclair, Inc.; and the E. W. Scripps Company — announced the launch of EdgeBeam Wireless at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Tuesday.. Some of the capabilities of EdgeBeam Wireless include giving automakers a broad ability to push out software updates to their vehicles in a given geographic region ...
Sixth Circuit appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules
Jan 2, 2025 · A utility truck for Comcast’s Xfinity TV and Internet service as pictured in Sacramento, California. (Photo by Matthew Keys for The Desk) In the first major telecom ruling of the new year, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday effectively struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) ability to regulate broadband Internet service providers (ISP) under so-called network ...
The Desk is top media trade publication on LinkedIn in 2024
Jan 2, 2025 · (Stock image) More C-suite executives, senior management and front-line workers in the media and entertainment industries engaged with stories and articles from The Desk on LinkedIn compared to similarly-situated trade publications in 2024, according to data from LinkedIn Analytics. The data showed The Desk with the largest volume of comments, reactions and shares among executives and workers ...
The Trade Desk confirms it will build a streaming TV OS
Nov 20, 2024 · The introduction of Ventura will come at a time when the streaming TV operating system is dominated by two players in the U.S. market — Amazon and Roku — the latter of which announced an advertising partnership with The Trade Desk in April.. Green feels The Trade Desk is in a good position to build its own operating system, noting that other companies “have a conflict of interest because ...