DirecTV said it made a deal with EchoStar to buy EchoStar’s video businesses, including satellite-TV provider Dish TV and virtual MVPD Sling TV, for $1 plus the assumption of debt. While both DirecTV ...

Growing up in Angelina National Forest in rural Texas, where her parents owned a lakeside marina and campground, Valari Dobson Staab never thought about working in television. She barely even thought ...

Spectrum Reach, the ad-sales arm of Charter Communications, said it a has deal with Amazon to become a local reseller of streaming Amazon Ads. The collaboration will enable Spectrum Reach to offer ...

Charter Communications’ Spectrum service launched a new brand platform, Life Unlimited, as part of a new product bundling and marketing approach aimed at competing with wireless connectivity providers ...

Collector’s Call has gotten a season six order from MeTV. Lisa Whelchel, who played Blair on The Facts of Life, hosts the show, which sees her check in with collectors of unique pop culture troves, ...

In her first job in television news, Maya Sargent, a multimedia journalist for E.W. Scripps’ WTXL, is covering a neighborhood in Northwest Tallahassee. Originally from the U.K., Sargent said her ...

Warner Bros. Discovery is shutting down its Boomerang subscription streaming service in September, shifting most of the service's classic animated content to Max. WBD, in an email sent Thursday to ...

Gray Media said it will launch a new digital broadcast channel, Palmetto Sports & Entertainment, in October on Gray Television’s stations in South Carolina. The network will be based at WIS Columbia ...

Samsung said it has added new channels featuring reality franchises Real Housewives, Keeping Up Wth the Kardashians and Bravo TV Vault to its Samsung TV Plus free streaming platform. Samsung said that ...

Paramount Advertising said it launched its self-serve ad buying platform, designed to attract more ad dollars from small and mid-sized businesses and other marketers that haven’t advertised on ...

Wendy Granato, president and general manager of KTRK Houston, has been named to the same position at KABC Los Angeles. Cheryl Fair retired from the KABC GM post in March. “Wendy is a true innovator, ...

A+E Networks said that two senior finance execs, Christopher Barry and Cliff Ejikeme, have been given expanded roles at the company. Barry, who has been executive VP of finance was named head of ...