Long a safe haven due to a reliable stream of retransmission fees and advertising dollars, local TV news stations are now facing a stark message as their industry faces the same financial pressures as ...

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NEW YORK—Consumers of local broadcast news continue to deem it as a valuable source of information—whether it’s political races, local sports teams or weather—regardless of accessing it on their TVs ...

Gray Media and the E.W. Scripps Co., two of the largest U.S. owners of local TV stations, have engineered a swap of stations in five small and mid-sized markets. The move will create new duopolies, ...

Nexstar, the biggest owner of US TV stations, is trying to get even bigger, believing the Trump administration will allow it to do so. On Tuesday, Nexstar announced a deal to acquire another broadcast ...

The retransmission battle between Scripps and DirecTV has escalated, with 54 local Scripps stations in 36 Nielsen-designated markets going dark as of 7 p.m. ET on Sunday. Both sides blamed the other ...

Television broadcaster Nexstar Media Group, which owns WBRE and operates WYOU, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton affiliates of NBC and CBS, is in advanced talks to acquire rival Tegna, the owner of WNEP, the ...

America’s local television stations do something at which the coastal media class loves to sneer but upon which ordinary families rely every day: They cover school board fights, city hall scandals, ...

As more people cut the cord and drop their cable TV subscriptions, public access channels are losing a vital source of revenue. For decades, cable television companies have paid franchise fees to ...