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Sinclair Is Reportedly Offering $850 Million to Buy Back Diamond Sports Group Out of Bankruptcy

Sinclair is being sued by its former subsidiary for $1.5 billion

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Scripps (Surprisingly) Puts ATSC 3.0 on the Back Burner With Its New Tablo OTA DVR ... But Grant Hall, the Exec Behind the Gadget, Says NextGen TV Is Still Part of the Longer-Term Plan

'It's just the first product -- it doesn't mean that we're ignoring or not doing ATSC 3.0,' Hall tells Next TV

Broadcasting & Cable

Roku's Chris Larson: ‘We've Spent $1 Billion a Year on R&D For the Last 15 Years. You’re Not Going to Spend $200 Million and Catch Us in Six Months’

In a wide-ranging Q&A with Next TV, Roku's global TV chief reiterates his company's position that consolidation is coming to TVOS and the barrier to entry is sky high

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The Next Text: Why Trump's X 'Views' Don't Really Matter ... But WGA Demands, CNN, Nielsen's Mushy Metrics, Fox GOP Debates and Google's Bundled, Linear TV Biz Still Do

Introducing our new recurring, reactionary, overtly shrill SMS exchange between Next TV writers Daniel Frankel and David Bloom, focused on the past week's TMT headlines

Broadcasting & Cable

Toldja! National Advertising Division Agrees With Us About YouTube TV's Bogus '$600-Cheaper-Than-Cable' Claim

Next TV kicked the tires on Google's specious TV commercial declaration 15 months ago, and now the NAD wants Goog to walk it back

Broadcasting & Cable

Sinclair 'Milked' Bally Sports Subsidiary Out of More Than $1.5 Billion, Diamond Sports Group Suit Says

Also, a source close to Diamond's secondary creditors tells Next TV he believes the bankrupt subsidiary will emerge from restructuring intact

Broadcasting & Cable

Gauge or Grift? As the Press Once Again Goes Nuts Over Nielsen's Monthly Market Share Tracker, It's Time to Ask -- Again -- Just What's in This Sausage, Anyway?

Nielsen continues to define the benchmarks for a fast-changing media-entertainment industry, but major questions about methodology and nomenclature remain

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Pac-12 ADs Spurn Apple Subscription Streaming Deal, Tragically Dismantle the 108-Year-Old 'Conference of Champions'

Member schools balk at yet another subscription TV pact loaded with incentives but bereft of certain financial payoffs. Indeed, bad media deals have consequences

Broadcasting & Cable

After 5 Years on the Bench, John Cena-Jackie Chan Action Film ‘Hidden Strike’ Swings and Misses — Netflix Weekly Rankings for July 24-30

Netflix has had luck with crummy action movies with super-low Rotten Tomatoes scores before, but not this time

Broadcasting & Cable

Niet Meer for ‘Nordic Noir?’ Scandinavian Media Conglomerate Viaplay Retreats From Int’l Markets, Abandons Ambitious Netflix Competition Plans in the U.S.

So you thought you’d wait out Hollywood’s summer of labor unrest with a little Nordic Noir? Think again

Broadcasting & Cable

Amazon Touts JustWatch Report Saying It Beat Netflix in Q2 Engagement ... 'Take Our Market Share Data With a Grain of Salt,' Responds JustWatch's Founder

Berlin-based streaming search engine provider backs off its bold proclamation

Broadcasting & Cable

Hollywood on Strike: Why the Video Business Could Use a Few More Tough Guys Like Ron Perlman (Frankel)

Sure, we can point our fingers at the boogeymen in Sun Valley all we want. But if those underpinning film and TV want to avoid the fate of, say, us folks in the news business, they should find a way to stick together and take care of each other

Broadcasting & Cable

‘Indiana Jones’ … and the Video Biz’s Regurgitative Pile of Destiny (Frankel)

From the box office to subscription streaming, not much about long-form cinematic storytelling seems to be working right now. Say, you don't suspect that it's because the video business is utterly bereft of creativity at the moment, do you?

Broadcasting & Cable

You Want It All? ‘We Got You’ — 5 Questions With Frequency CEO Blair Harrison

Next TV is expanding its coverage of the technologists and technology vendors that make streaming happen. Today’s focus is on Frequency ... and its new partnership with Wurl

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Freeze Frame | 40 Under 40 L.A.

Photos from L.A. TV Week party toasting 2023’s group of executives on the rise

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MGM’s Ottinger: Forget the Library and the Legacy, ‘Everything Is Now Driven by an Obsession With Our Customers’ (Next TV L.A.)

A decade ago, Hollywood fought a war against Silicon Valley for control of the video business. Losing had consequences

Broadcasting & Cable

We’re Not Just Imagining It, Netflix Viewing Really Is Down From Last Year

For perhaps the first time since its shift to streaming in 2007, Netflix is experiencing a year-over-year decline in viewership

Broadcasting & Cable

Amazon Studios Exec: 'Jaded' U.S. Audiences Just Need Time to Warm Up to 'Citadel'

Drama series chief Odetta Watkins told a Banff Media Festival audience Sunday that the $300 million Russo Bros. series represents a 'victory,' even though audiences in Amazon's most important market have virtually ignored it

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L.A. TV Week: Next TV Summit Rings in Streaming’s ‘Postwar’ Era

Top-level media tech executives converge June 20 to make sense of an industry being recreated before our eyes

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Android TV Devices Shipping With Pre-Installed Malware

Inexpensive Android TV devices based on chip sets from Chinese companies AllWinner and RockChip are reportedly arriving laced with malware needed to conduct ad-click fraud

Broadcasting & Cable

Reds Ready to Go It Alone Sans Bally Sports Starting Saturday

If Sinclair's Diamond Sports Group doesn't pay MLB team by Friday, club is set to broadcast its own games starting Saturday vs. the White Sox on a new channel

Broadcasting & Cable

Phoenix Suns Could Have Big ATSC 3.0 Distribution Plans, and Other Teams, Including the Utah Jazz, Might Soon Follow

Why we could be witnessing the emergence of an innovative post-RSN distribution scheme, pioneered by failed startup Evoca, that finally utilizes the vast potential of NextGen TV

Broadcasting & Cable

’An Earth-Shaking Moment in Cable News‘: Tucker Carlson Out at Fox

Abrupt departure of Fox News’ heaviest hitter is reportedly tied to former producer Abby Grossberg’s discrimination suit

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B+C, Next TV Announce Winners of Best of Show Awards at 2023 NAB Show

Awards recognize innovation and excellence in Media & Entertainment technology

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Here We Go Again? Frontier Communications Drops Newsmax

Telecom is the latest to reach a distribution impasse with the far-right channel

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