Topic: Tribune
It's not looking good for broadcasters locked in a lawsuit with Aereo, a pay TV service that "rents" tiny TV antennas to customers in order to stream local TV signals…
Fresh out of bankruptcy, Tribune has hired former Federal Communications Commission official Edward Lazarus as executive vice president and general counsel. Up until a year ago, Lazarus was the former chief…
Tribune's exit from a long and arduous bankruptcy is almost over after clearing the final regulatory hurdle at the Federal Communications Commission. The regulator on Friday afternoon approved the media company's…
Another day, another battle in the retrans war. Cablevision subscribers in New York woke up this morning to find that CW flagship station WPIX had gone dark overnight as negotiations…
SNL Kagan analysts are predicting that carriage agreements will split into two different types over the coming years. The first type is exemplified by the quiet pact inked by Comcast and…
Media companies, in general, want to be able to own lots of other media companies, regardless of whether these companies compete in the same market. But broadcasters and newspaper companies…
According to Clara Shih, CEO of social marketing firm Hearsay Social, the biggest challenge facing social marketers is content. For the last six months, her company has been working to ease…
Just in time for baseball season, Tribune Broadcasting and DirecTV signed a new carriage agreement covering Tribune's 23 TV stations in 19 markets and the national cable network WGN America. The…
The retransmission consent battle between DirecTV and Tribune escalated Monday with accusations, counter-accusations and the inevitable filing with the Federal Communications Commission by DirecTV. As of midnight March 31, 23 Tribune…
Tribune TV stations in 19 markets such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles went dark on DirecTV at midnight March 31 when the two companies were unable to reach…
