Cover Story: Distributor of the Year: AT&T 
| | With its $48.5 billion DirecTV merger in the books and an ambitious quad play strategy underway, AT&T has been named Multichannel News's Distributor of the Year for 2015. more | | WHY THIS MATTERS: With 26.3 million video customers, AT&T now sits at the top of the heap, a spot formerly held by Comcast and its 22 million customers. It's armed with the scale that its peers crave and are actively pursuing. And it did so without having to make onerous concessions. |
| | Telecom/Cable Lead PPI Capex Index | | The largest telecom and cable companies account for the largest share of domestic capital expenditures among all U.S. companies, according to the Progressive Policy Institute's 2015 "Investment Heroes" report, which is based on 2014 capex. more | WHY THIS MATTERS: Companies in the sector -- including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner Cable -- collectively accounted for $48.7 billion in investment (up 5.5% from the year before) toward a total of $172 billion for all 25 companies (up 12.7% from 2014).
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| | Nexstar Makes $41B offer for Media General | | The second wave of TV station consolidation went into full swing Monday with Nexstar Broadcast Group's $4.1 billion unsolicited offer to purchase Media General. The deal comes weeks after Media General agreed to purchase Meredith in a $2.4 billion deal. more | WHY THIS MATTERS: Station consolidation has been on the upswing lately with Media General's Meredith deal and Gray TV's agreement to buy Schurz Communications for $442.5 million. Stations are becoming more and more attractive given the pending broadcast spectrum auctions slated for early next year.
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Advanced Advertising
October 20, 2015 | Waldorf Astoria, New York
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October 21-22, 2015 | The Park Central Hotel, New York
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October 21, 2015 | The Park Central Hotel, New York
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Jay Sures, Managing Director, United Talent Agency
Interviewed by: Dan Abrams, Founder and CEO, Abrams Media and Chief Legal Affairs Anchor, ABC News
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