As broadcasters push to end ownership caps that they contend has hurt their competitive position, new data from Guideline provides some depressing details on just how much the local TV ad spend has ...

NEW YORK—Consumers of local broadcast news continue to deem it as a valuable source of information—whether it’s political races, local sports teams or weather—regardless of accessing it on their TVs ...

Local TV news is in trouble. For decades, 24/7 cable news and digital news sites have chewed away at its audience base. Younger audiences have little interest in tuning in at 6 or 11 p.m. to catch a ...

Across the country, the kinds of budget cuts that have decimated newspapers over the years are now slicing into local TV news stations. A trend of TV news layoffs “is only just the beginning,” one ...

After years in development, a programmatic solution for buying and selling local linear advertising is finally ready to launch. “We have a newly formed partnership with ITN that is going to change the ...

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, ...

Nexstar is buying Tegna for $6.2 billion TV station deal Nexstar; Tegna; Getty Images Nexstar, the No. 1 owner of TV stations in the U.S., is acquiring rival Tegna in a deal that reshapes the industry ...

Handing out pink slips to dozens of beloved small-market local TV news weathercasters would be ill-advised even in the best of times. But to do it right as unpredictable and dangerous weather ...

Together, the two TV station groups, Sinclair and Nexstar, control more than 20 percent of ABC’s local affiliates. By Benjamin Mullin Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show is returning to ABC on Tuesday ...

When it comes to local news, the elephant in the room is your local TV station. For too long, print and digital outlets have written off television news as shallow — obsessed with crime and spectacle ...