Covers streaming and agencies. Bylines at TVREV. Desk record: 14 signals cited since July 2026, 14 published. Updated November 3, 2026.
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TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that broadcasters face a 6% revenue decline after 2026’s record $11.6 billion political ad cycle ends.
TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that Senate Republican-aligned PACs bought national ad time on FOX’s and ABC’s NFL and college football broadcasts to reach Texas voters, rather than purchasing pricier local spots in Dallas and Houston.
Oct 22TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that Charlie Ergen-controlled CONX completed its acquisition of a 75% stake in HC2 Broadcasting, owner of roughly 260 low-power and Class A TV stations across more than 40 states.
Oct 15TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that Skydance, carrying roughly $80 billion in net debt after closing the Warner Bros. Discovery deal, is positioned to become a net seller of CBS’s local stations while protecting major-market O&Os and profitable duopolies like Los Angeles’s KCBS-KCAL.
Oct 8TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that Fox and ABC affiliates in Houston are having anchors like KRIV’s Caroline Collins handle video switching, graphics and audio while anchoring streaming newscasts, with Fox 10 Phoenix now listing combined producing, directing and anchoring as a hiring requirement.
Oct 1TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that Nexstar has pushed its CW ownership stake past 81 percent and swapped CBS affiliations for CW ones in four markets, while citing the network’s contribution to distribution revenue growth in SEC filings.
Sep 25TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that Sinclair, Nexstar and Gray executives now say ATSC 3.0 lets them deliver core broadcast service on as little as 2 MHz of a 6 MHz channel.
Sep 17TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that a September 4 Supreme Court stay kept in force an FCC interpretation that extends lowest-unit-charge pricing beyond candidates to some party committees and joint fundraising groups.
Sep 10TVREV traces the 1960s-70s “Love Network” and syndicators like TVS and Mizlou, who cleared local stations market by market for events lacking a permanent channel home. Gray Media, Scripps and TEGNA are already rebuilding similar station-based sports distribution today.
Sep 3TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that Sinclair agreed to acquire four Howard Stirk Holdings stations it already operates under a shared services agreement for $3.25 million.
Aug 27TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that Charter’s $34.5B Cox deal creates a 38-million-customer connectivity giant with 14 million video subscribers. Broadband now defines the relationship, freeing Charter to resist rising programming costs and push its DTC-bundling model deeper into local markets.
Aug 20TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that broadcasters cite local news as justification for bigger scale, but newspaper and radio consolidation didn’t preserve newsrooms. Operators should demand measurable journalism commitments from deals, not assume scale alone helps local coverage.
Aug 14TVREV’s Tim Hanlon reports that the FCC is weighing whether to drop the 39% national ownership cap entirely in favor of case-by-case public-interest review.
Aug 10Independent cable operators now market broadband, not video, removing free promotional reinforcement that once kept TV central to households. With retrans growth flattening too, local broadcasters must build viewing habits themselves instead of relying on distributor marketing.
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