GANNETT STATIONS TAKE OLYMPICS LEAD

Attracting a massive 51 percent of the local audience in the 25-54 age group, Denver’s KUSA has emerged as the top-rated station in primetime in the top 25 markets during the Olympics. Gannett Broadcasting, which owns the NBC affiliate, also owns the No. 2- and No. 3-rated Olympics stations, KARE Minneapolis and WXIA Atlanta. Indeed, […]

BROADCASTERS FORM CONSORTIUM TO PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE MOBILE CONTENT

Some of broadcasting’s biggest players, including the Fox and NBC networks as well as ION Television (partially owned by NBC), Cox Media Group, Gannett Broadcasting, Belo, Media General, Meredith, Post-Newsweek, Raycom, and Hearst Television, have agreed to form a consortium to develop programming for mobile phones. The venture would use spectrum that the broadcasters abandoned […]