RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast

Nexstar Media Group's three C-Suite leaders — Chairman/CEO Perry Sook, President/COO Tom Carter and CFO Lee Ann Gliha — on Wednesday shared all of the details of the company's Q4 and full-year 2021 earnings results in a conference call for financial analysts and shareholders.

The trio of executives offered commentary on the company's health, including what ad categories performed well — and didn't. There's also intelligence on retransmission consent revenue, with Dan Kurnos of Benchmark Co. asking for more on the subject.

With Steven Cahall of Wells Fargo Securities also participating in the Q&A session, we offer this edited audio review of the earnings call in this RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast.

Every day we get pitched stories about FAST Channels, AVOD and connected TV and, in nearly every instance, we reply with the same statement — how is this important to the broadcast television industry and how can they benefit?

That's just one of several questions RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson asks Blair Harrison, CEO of OTT linear streaming platform Frequency, in this fresh InFOCUS Podcast.

Learn why FAST channels aren't a threat to broadcast TV and, perhaps, additive, and why "streaming duplicates" may bring an important boost to your organization in this podcast!

The power of combining OTT with linear TV is an opportunity for broadcast television, and on Thursday afternoon Compulse Regional Sales Director Paolo Romanacci participated in an exclusive one-on-one discussion with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson in an exclusive webinar.

For 45 minutes, live participants gained valuable insights and intelligence on how to combine free-to-air television with Connected TV for optimal reach, performance and profit.

We're pleased to now offer an "instant replay" of the discussion.

It's a free event. All you need to do to view the webinar on demand NOW is to register.

Access the Webinar Video by clicking here: https://d.pr/v/0R01rf/G9mRn3KcUL

Romanacci shares the rise of "CTV" —  Connected TV. He also provides details on how marketers can use CTV and Over-The-Air TV in combo to reach viewers that "cut the cord" and will never see a spot cable-booked ad, along with a great client success story.

As an audio alternative to viewing the webinar, you may listen to Jacobson's conversation with Romanacci by accessing the latest InFOCUS Podcast via the player below.

Note: Visuals are not included in this audio-only recording of the webinar.

This is a special audio edition of the Afternoon Headlines E-mail from the Radio + Television Business Report, distributed via its InFOCUS Podcast Network due to technical difficulties with its third-party email provider. For more on these stories and our advertising sponsors — SBS, vCreative, Szabo, The Ramsey Show, Veritone, MWC Barcelona and Marketron — visit RBR.com!

She’s the Chief Research Officer of the not-for-profit trade association representing America’s local broadcast television industry, TVB. And, she’s the latest RBR+TVBR InFOCUS Podcast guest.

In this fresh episode, Hadassa Gerber talks to RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson to talk about some very intriguing new info from the just-released GfK 2022 Media Comparisons Study. In short, it’s great intelligence for broadcast and cable TV.

At-home production and REMI — an acronym that non-tech leaders may not know — have grown in importance over the last several years. It was only accelerated by the pandemic. Thus, having Jim Jachetta, EVP/Chief Technology Officer of VidOvation, as Adam R Jacobson's guest on the latest InFOCUS Podcast couldn't be timelier.

Jachetta shares some of the “5 Essential Elements of At-Home Live Remote Production Workflows and discusses how local news organizations can best take advantage of this.

Is it a folly, with a big hurdle ahead as it needs to ink retransmission consent agreements to come close to what the now-shuttered Locast offered, but legally? Or, can it be successful as a "virtual over-the-air" TV service focused on digital multicast channels and PBS Member stations?

Those questions and more are asked by RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam Jacobson in a fresh and provocative InFOCUS Podcast featuring LocalBTV founder and CEO Jim Long.

This week college radio stations and independent content creators were invited to consider the use of TuneIn On Air to connect with its users. Yes, there’s an empowerment story here, but what’s the key driver behind this opportunity?

Rob Deichert, the Chief Revenue Officer at TuneIn, joins RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson for this new InFOCUS Podcast episode to share more about TuneIn’s initiatives designed to help bring more ears to all-things audio — traditional radio, too.

With the 2022 NAB Show now marking the “big return” for many a broadcast media technology vendor, CP Communications has perhaps emerged as one of the more active players of late. In this RBR+TVBR Winter 2022 Special Report preview, CP CEO Kurt Heitman shares his excitement about what lies ahead for the company in 2022 with Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson.

The conversation is the centerpiece of the latest InFOCUS Podcast, where Broadcast Media comes to Talk. It's less than 15 minutes in length — the perfect size to go with your morning coffee, afternoon walk, or evening wind-down. Listen now!

He's a five-year syndicated morning radio host whose resume includes former Miami Rocker "Zeta 4" and Central Florida Top 40 outlet "107-1 A1A." He's also a feature film star.

On Friday, Brad Abrell (pronounced A-Brill) will be heard — but not seen — in potentially millions of homes that have access to Amazon Prime. How so? He’s playing Frankenstein ... for real. 

In this InFOCUS Podcast, Brad turns on the mic and chats with RBR+TVBR Editor-in-Chief Adam R Jacobson by phone from Hollywood to share how his role in Hotel Transylvania: Transformania came to be, and why radio remains a vital part of his life.