Jon Lafayette

Nielsen Total Audience report shows 68 percent of homes have connected devices.

Plan calls for eight hours of programming, including live updates.

Expansion comes just in time for Super Bowl.

Broadcast station merger and acquisition activity totaled $5.11 billion in the second quarter of 2018, the biggest quarter since second quarter 2007, according to Kagan.

Research company offers free preview of analysis of open-ended responses

Measurement based on time spent viewing.

Fox, which is adding Thursday Night Football this season, is offering new ad formats that will bring sponsors “closer to the action” during upfront discussions.

Comcast is talking to bankers about getting financing for an all-cash bid for the assets 21st Century Fox has agreed to sell for $52 billion to the Walt Disney Co., according to Reuters.

Media agency GroupM has forecast that time spent with online media worldwide in 2018 will surpass time spent with linear TV.

Comcast formally announced that it was making a cash offer for Sky plc that is higher than 21 Century Fox’s bid for the satellite company.

Panels challenged by set-top-boxes and ACR

Two months before the crucial upfront market, NBCUniversal has created a new metric that unifies linear and digital viewing of an advertising campaign.

Executive had been in charge of Disney consumer products, interactive media

People who stream TV content now prefer to watch it on TV sets instead of personal computers, according to a new report from Conviva.

Discovery Communications, cleared to acquire Scripps Networks Interactive, on Thursday (March 1) announced new management for the combined company.

Sinclair Broadcast Group has answered Tribune’s lawsuit over their failed merger with a countersuit.

Inscape said it made a deal to provide LiveRamp with the viewing data it collects from nearly nine million smart TVs.

Comcast to pay £17.28 per share

More than 20 reporters to provide local content.

Disney got the rights to develop the site for 99 years from Trinity Church Wall Street in a transaction the company valued at $650 million.

Streaming set records

Despite the industry’s focus on streaming and on-demand video, linear TV dominates Americans’ time spent viewing and is on the rise, according to a new report from Nielsen.

Average length of subscription is 30 months

Facility will house Augusta’s WRDW and WAGT

Stations, sports and news channels to share facility.