B&C Today: Scripps Renews 'Pickler & Ben'; Tegna, SPT Forge Partnership

Broadcasting & Cable Newsletter   January 17, 2018     The best of BroadcastingCable.com delivered to your inbox daily     Top Stories       NATPE 2018: Scripps Renews 'Pickler & Ben' for Season 2 Show is cleared in about 70% of country and airs on CMT READ MORE » WHY THIS MATTERS: Season to date, the show is averaging a 0.3 live plus same day household rating, according to Nielsen Media Research.   NATPE 2018: Tegna, Sony Pictures Television Forge Partnership SPT will distribute Tegna shows such as 'Daily Blast Live,' as well as sell national advertising, branded integrations READ MORE » WHY THIS MATTERS: Currently, the agreement includes Tegna's Daily Blast Live, which airs on Tegna stations in 36 markets as well as live on Facebook and YouTube several hours a day. It also includes any future programming Tegna develops.   comScore Gets Cash in Deal With Stockholder Starboard Company to focus on cross-platform measurement READ MORE » WHY THIS MATTERS: Since irregularities were found in comScore's financial statements two years ago, the company has gone through a couple of CEOs and spent millions on a painstaking re-audit process that has kept the company from mounting a challenge to Nielsen in the media measurement business.   More Top Stories       NATPE 2018: Tribune, Sinclair Pick Up 'True Crime Files' for Fall NATPE 2018: NBCU Clears 'Chicago PD' in More Than 75% of U.S. NATPE 2018: Fox TV Stations Renew 'Page Six TV' for Second Season Turner Expands Measurement Agreement With comScore NATPE 2018: RuPaul, Leah Remini, John Oliver Take Home NATPE Unscripted Breakthrough Awards NATPE 2018: CTD Acquires Digital Multicast Rights to 'The Carol Burnett Show' NATPE 2018: Facebook Watch to Debut Three New Shows TCA 2018: PBS' Kerger Talks Charlie Rose, Tavis Smiley and #MeToo Viacom Shares Dip 7% as Deal Fervor Fizzles NAMIC Chief Eglon Simons to Retire more headlines »   Blog Of Note     CBS News' Palmer Claims DuPont-Columbia Award for Aleppo Reporting By Michael Malone Elizabeth Palmer, CBS News foreign correspondent, is in New York to pick up a duPont-Columbia Award for her story "The Road to Aleppo." Palmer is in Syria several times a year to cover the developing story there, and has done so for five years. She was actually on vacation, hiking in France with her husband, when she found out she won the prestigious duPont-Columbia—16 are given out Jan. 16 for excellence in journalism--after turning on her phone in a cafe. READ MORE » more blogs »   Departments       Legacy Awards: Jane Fonda Is Still Pushing Boundaries Washington: Rep. Blackburn Intros First Batch of Rural Broadband Bills Fates and Fortunes: Trump Doesn't Make Grade in New Poll Platforms: Comcast Taps Amazon Web Services as 'Preferred' Public Cloud Provider Programming: Fox Renews Ryan Murphy Drama '9-1-1'   Events     Technology Leadership Summit February 28 – March 1, 2018 | Raleigh, NC Learn More 20th Annual Multichannel News Wonder Women Luncheon March 22, 2018 | New York, NY Learn More Advanced Advertising Summit – Spring Edition March 26, 2018 | New York, NY Learn More Multicultural Television Summit April 3, 2018 | New York, NY Learn More Technology Leadership Awards at NAB April 9, 2018 | Las Vegas, NV Learn More Digital Media Tech Leadership Summit June 4-6, 2018 | Tampa, FL Learn More The Programmatic Summit June 7, 2018 | New York, NY Learn More more events »   Jobs     Local Sales Manager KCCI, Des Moines, IA   Professor of Practice in Filmmaking and Media Production Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI   VP, Engineering NESN, Boston, MA   Assistant Chief Engineer WROC-TV, Rochester, NY   more jobs » News Blogs Events People TV Careers   Advertise Contact Us Send this to a friend       ©2018 NewBay Media, LLC

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