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Tegna expands contract with Comscore
Tysons-based Tegna, the nation’s largest owner of NBC-affiliate TV stations, has reached a multiyear deal with Reston-based Comscore, which will continue providing media metrics and audience measurement services across the broadcaster’s local TV, major affiliate and digital businesses, the companies announced Friday. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. With this expans[...]
CBN, Regent University founder Pat Robertson dies at 93
Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson, a one-time GOP presidential hopeful and also chancellor, founder and CEO of Regent University in Virginia Beach, died June 8 at age 93. Robertson started CBN in 1960, revolutionizing religious broadcasting with its flagship program “The 700 Club,” a syndicated evangelical newsmagazine show he hosted for 60 years. During […]
Graham Media Group announces next president and CEO
Catherine Badalamente will be the next president and CEO of Arlington-based Graham Holdings Co.’s local media division, Graham Media Group. Her hiring follows current president and CEO Emily L. Barr’s Tuesday announcement that she would retire later this year. Graham Holdings Co. is the family company of the late Katharine Graham, who was the former […]
Tegna confirms acquisition offers
Tysons-based broadcast and digital media corporation Tegna Inc. has received acquisition bids of more than $8 billion from Apollo Global Management Inc. and media mogul Byron Allen, according to media reports. The news comes more than a year after previous purchase proposals fell through in March 2020 amid the dawning of the coronavirus pandemic. Bloomberg […]
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DOUG DAVIS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND REGIONAL MANAGER, NEXSTAR MEDIA INC., PORTSMOUTH Davis is the point person in Virginia for the country’s largest broadcast television group. Based in Portsmouth, home to WAVY and WVBT’s studios, the New Jersey native came up through the sales and management side of the business, serving in account executive, sales […]
PBS names chief programming exec
Arlington-based Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) announced Tuesday that Sylvia Bugg has been promoted to chief programming executive and general manager of general audience programming, effective immediately. Bugg most recently served as vice president of general audience programming, overseeing the PBS editorial team and leading the network’s strategy for news, public affairs, documentarie[...]
