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Optimum forced to drop WPIX, other Nexstar-owned TV channels
3 days ago · “In any given month, 90 percent of customers – more than 1.2 million – never tune in to NewsNation, making it unfair to force customers to pay tens of millions of dollars for content they never watch and hold them hostage to force carriage of broadcast stations,” the spokesperson said.“Despite NewsNation’s shockingly low viewership, Nexstar has taken this one step further by ...
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Nexstar Media channels dropped from Optimum TV - thedesk.net
6 days ago · An Optimum customer service center located in New Jersey. (Photo by Jonathan Schilling via Wikimedia Commons, Graphic by The Desk) Nexstar Media Group on Tuesday began notifying viewers of its local TV stations across the country that they may lose access to their local news and network programming because of a looming carriage dispute with Altice USA’s Optimum.
Disney, Fox donate millions to Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts
3 days ago · A number of media and entertainment companies are donating money and effort to disaster relief organizations as the wildfires in Southern California continue to rage on. On Friday, the Walt Disney Company said it was donating $15 million to a number of not-for-profit organizations and disaster ...
EdgeBeam Wireless: TV broadcasters datacast over ATSC 3.0
6 days ago · The broadcasters — Nexstar Media Group; the E. W. Scripps Company; Sinclair, Inc.; and the E. W. Scripps Company — announced the launch of EdgeBeam Wireless at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Tuesday.. Some of the capabilities of EdgeBeam Wireless include giving automakers a broad ability to push out software updates to their vehicles in a given geographic region ...
Law firm investigating Fubo over pay TV merger with Disney
Jan 7, 2025 · The firm also says it is probing whether Fubo had disclosed “all material information necessary” to the company’s shareholders concerning its deal with Disney, which will marry Fubo’s pay television business with that of Disney’s Hulu with Live TV (stylized as Hulu + Live TV).. As described, the unification of the two pay TV …
The Desk is top media trade publication on LinkedIn in 2024
Jan 2, 2025 · (Stock image) More C-suite executives, senior management and front-line workers in the media and entertainment industries engaged with stories and articles from The Desk on LinkedIn compared to similarly-situated trade publications in 2024, according to data from LinkedIn Analytics. The data showed The Desk with the largest volume of comments, reactions and shares among executives and workers ...
The Trade Desk confirms it will build a streaming TV OS
Nov 20, 2024 · The introduction of Ventura will come at a time when the streaming TV operating system is dominated by two players in the U.S. market — Amazon and Roku — the latter of which announced an advertising partnership with The Trade Desk in April.. Green feels The Trade Desk is in a good position to build its own operating system, noting that other companies “have a conflict of interest because ...
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