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Tegna, DirecTV End Blackout With New Multiyear Distribution Deal

Agreement covers 64 stations in 51 markets and restores NBC stations ahead of Wild Card Playoff NFL game

Multichannel News · Jan 13, 2024

Peacock, DirecTV/Tegna causing confusion on how to watch NFL Wild Card weekend

Because of a Peacock streaming exclusive and blackout issues between DirecTV and Tegna, many fans may not be able to watch NFL playoff action this weekend.

WhatToWatch · Jan 12, 2024

DirecTV-Tegna Blackout, Peacock Exclusive Threaten to Block Viewers Amid the NFL’s Big Wild Card Weekend

The biggest ratings force in American television is about to kick off high holy postseason services, but ridiculous impediments for the rapt audience await

Broadcasting & Cable · Jan 9, 2024

B+C Station Awards 2023: Tegna’s Station-Branded Apps Are Luring in New Audiences

Viewers have streamed over 2 billion minutes of content

Multichannel News · Dec 19, 2023

Brian Gregory Named WVEC Norfolk General Manager

Has been the news director at KDVR-KWGN Denver

Broadcasting & Cable · Dec 13, 2023

TV in 2023: Transition or Transformation?

Between Hollywood strikes, changing viewer habits and concerns over AI, the past year showed an industry deep in rapid evolution

TV Tech · Dec 13, 2023

Tegna Names Brian Gregory President and GM of WVEC in Norfolk

Gregory joins WVEC on Dec. 18 from KDVR/KWGN in Denver where he served as news director

TV Tech · Dec 11, 2023

One of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Was Florida State's Perfect 13-0 Record Sacked By the SEC's $3 Billion TV Deal With Disney/ESPN?

In our latest 'Next Text,' we ponder college football's playoff travesty, retrans' ratcheted-up rhetoric, Disney's Culture War floggings and a bunch of other stuff that's unfair and just not right

Broadcasting & Cable · Dec 4, 2023

Tegna Stations Go Dark on DirecTV

Two parties were unable to reach a retrans agreement prior to the deadline on November 30

TV Tech · Dec 1, 2023

DirecTV’s Rob Thun Tells Tegna to Get Direct With Either the Networks or Pay TV Customers as the Latest Retrans Dispute Devolves Into Yet Another Blackout

DirecTV’s top programming executive says he‘s ‘dead serious’ this time about no longer getting caught in the middle of a dialectic that’s seen retrans fees spike 270% since 2015. And he has a Charter-esque proposal Tegna’s probably not going to like

Broadcasting & Cable · Dec 1, 2023