Deborah D McAdams

Standard & Poor’s downgraded its credit rating for Newport, Ky.-based Local TV, but deemed it a reasonable risk due in part to its stations’ newscasts.

Comments are due on Docket No. 12-107 by Dec. 18, 2012; replies are due Dec. 28, 2012.

The Federal Communications Commission today approved a duopoly for Journal Broadcasting in the Green Bay, Wis., market, where the station group owns NBC affiliate WGBA-TV.

Media General President and CEO Marshall N. Morton, 66, plans to retire at the end of this year after 23 years with the company.

Grass Valley is reorganizing its sales and marketing division with four new executive positions and the exit of Jeff Rosica...

FilmOn.tv announced the launch of an over-the-air channel in Los Angeles, the second largest TV market in the country.

The Associated Press today is taking the wraps off of a new video archive platform designed to expand its stock footage business.

The chairman opened with “Delighted to be here at Twitter HQ for chat til 11 pst/2pm est – Julius.” ...And then he was gone.

Sony unveiled the latest additions to its XDCAM line at IBC in Amsterdam over the weekend, the PMW-150 camcorder and the PMW-50 field recorder.

News-Press & Gazette has invested $22 million in three data-hosting companies.

A House subcommittee will hold a hearing this Friday on the fast-track waiver LightSquared received from the FCC.

The Niles Media Group, a Missouri production company, has added the Bannister Lake Score Bug solutions for its live sports productions.

For-A will showcase its FT-One 4K super slow-motion camera at the upcoming NAB Convention.

Sinclair Broadcast Group is firing up the mobile DTV exciters at 10 stations in nine markets over the next six months.

Broadcasters were denied an injunction against signal aggregator Aereo for the second time today when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected their premise.

Thirty-nine recipients of the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

LiveU will unveil its new patent-pending Smart Grip device in a handheld monopod for its LU-Smart mobile app at NAB 2013.

ViewCast will demonstrate closed-captioning with the Niagara 9100-4D using the latest updates to Niagara SCX video streaming software, at the NAB Show.

Motive Television PLC, is working with Granite Broadcasting to delivery live broadcast television to tablet devices.

Ooyala announced Discovery Guide, Hook and XTV Connect.