In April 1948, the first television station in the U.S. South signed on the air. Today, WTVR-6 in Richmond is celebrating its 75th anniversary. But, the E.W. Scripps Co. station affiliated with CBS says the station's story requires going back even further than that celebratory sign-on date.
Alan Kommisaroff suffered a heart attack after exercising at his home, a GoFundMe page established following the 47-year-old's sudden passing reveals. It was not the first time he suffered a cardiac episode.
From Bilbao to Barcelona and from Malaga to Madrid, the Spanish government anticipated a wholesale shutdown of standard definition TV signals. That won't happen just yet, because that would prevent many from watching broadcast television in Spain.
NEXTGEN TV signals are now available for those who have television sets capable of receiving the ATSC 3.0-powered digital broadcasts for all but the network affiliates serving Illinois' state capital and two neighboring cities.
It's the owner of former Cox Media Group stations that made its mark as the owner of the MVPD-distributed INSP channel. Imagicomm Communications today owns broadcast television stations from the Mississippi to the Redwood Forest. Now, it's named a new GM in Memphis.
Graham Media Group has been celebrating the 75th anniversary of WDIV, branded as "LOCAL 4" across Detroit, for several weeks. Now, it's preparing a prime-time, two-hour documentary airing Friday (11/4) narrated by a radio legend 86-year-old Dick Purtan.
Enjoy watching ABC programming on "News Channel 20" in downstate Illinois or on "ABC4" in Charleston, S.C.? There will be no concerns of a "great affiliation swap" involving these markets, and all others where Sinclair Broadcast Group is the station owner.
"A difficult and sad day." That's how Crystal Ayala, a news anchor and investigative reporter at the Telemundo owned-and-operated TV station in Houston, described Sunday, October 30. The night before, her boss, KTMD's VP of News, lost his battle with cancer.
The Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas, DMA has just become the latest to bring NEXTGEN TV signals to those consumers that have a television capable of receiving the new digital broadcast TV standard powered by ATSC 3.0.
The Assistant News Director of Gray Television's ABC affiliate serving the Virginia communities of Harrisonburg, Staunton and Waynesboro has been selected to serve as News Director of the company's streaming-based Local News Live operation.