Amy Maclean

When Stacy London entered the TV scene as co-host of TLC’s “What Not to Wear,” no one could have predicted where it would take her—least of all herself.

It’s been more than two years since DirecTV carried Mission Broadcasting and White Knight stations. The provider spent Monday morning in a federal appeals court making its case before a three-judge panel on why it believes a lower court erred in dismissing its antitrust suit that claimed Nexstar is engaging in an illegal conspiracy with Mission and White Knight to manipulate, raise and fix prices of retransmission consent fees for broadcast TV stations.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider arguments from ACA Connects, USTelecom and other ISP groups regarding New York’s Affordable Broadband Act, allowing the state to move forward with its law that ISPs offer qualifying households broadband for $15/month ($20/month for higher speed offerings).

Those regular “Fiber Frenzy” headlines in Cablefax detailing the latest fiber builds really add up. A new Fiber Broadband Association report found that 2024 set a record for the highest annual fiber-to-the-home growth, with 10.3 million homes marketed to. That compares to 9.1 million in 2023 and 7.2 million in 2019 (all data is through 3Q of each year). Since 2020, all-fiber availability has grown from less than 40% of U.S. households to almost 60%, and all-fiber connectivity has grown from approximately 15% to approximately 30%.

As the news of industry legend Charles Dolan’s passing trickled out over the weekend, colleagues reflected on the man who built HBO, Cablevision and what’s now known as AMC Networks.

Paramount Global and Skydance are fighting back against those opposing their transaction, asking the FCC to dismiss petitions to deny the merger and promptly approve the deal without conditions.

If Disney and Fubo ’s merger caught you by surprise, you weren’t alone.

Venu Sports ’ pathway to launch may not be clear despite the combination of Fubo and Disney ’s Hulu+Live TV, with EchoStar and DirecTV both telling the court they are weighing their options.

The words “shocker” and “stunning” have been thrown around a lot following the news that Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery are discontinuing plans to launch streaming sports venture Venu Sports, but there have been some red flags on the field since its genesis.

Remember some complaining over Comcast moving RSNs as their deals came up for renewal to a less distributed tier while its NBC Sports RSNs continued to be carried more widely? That’s changing, with Comcast set to move NBC Sports Boston, NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California tomorrow to its Digital Preferred and Ultimate TV tiers this month. NESN, not owned by Comcast, is also being moved to the Digital/Ultimate TV package tomorrow.