The Nexstar-Tegna transaction could bolster local television journalism by providing the scale needed to compete with Big Tech and streaming giants.

When I was a kid, my dad ran a small local business. Like countless owners, he depended on local broadcast media to reach customers, build trust in the community and keep the lights on to support our ...

NEW YORK — Broadcasters face confusing crosswinds as they plan for the immediate future, with macroeconomics, regulation and technology all in heavy flux, said Rick Ducey, managing director, BIA ...

Here's an ongoing news story -- perhaps one you will see on your big living room screen: Where will local TV stations be five years from now? For years, legacy local TV stations have been doing their ...

Streaming giants such as Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and YouTube dominate Americans’ living rooms today because they can reach virtually everywhere without the regulatory shackles that are decimating ...

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 ...

When FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appears before the Senate Commerce Committee on Dec. 17, Democrats will likely spend their energy projecting. After years of colluding with Big Tech to censor ...

In most years, a graph of annual local TV ad spending is about as predictable as an electrocardiogram of a reasonably healthy patient in a doctor’s office. Revenue spikes upwards on even-numbered ...

Over the course of the last couple of decades, streaming has transformed from a relatively fringe extravagance to the preferred way for many to watch movies and television shows at home. In turn, the ...

Many of us have been waiting many, many years for advertisers and agencies to view streaming and linear TV channels as a holistic premium video world, where planning, buying, selling and measurement ...

One of my favorite Nieman Lab predictions in recent years came from Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. The prediction, “The future-of-journalism ...