TVND founder and former news director Kirk Varner joins Tim Hanlon this week on episode 21 of In the Vicinity.

Many of the companies that once helped reinforce local broadcast television viewing are no longer in the business of promoting television itself.

Madhive CEO Jim Wilson is back on In the Vicinity this week to talk to Tim Hanlon about what the proposed FCC ownership rule changes could mean for local broadcasters.

Next week’s vote at the FCC is likely to replace a decades-old national TV broadcast station ownership cap formula with a substantially more subjective regulatory standard - and a whole new set of challenges.

On the latest episode of In the Vicinity, Tim Hanlon sits down with Christy Tanner, President and CEO, New York Public Radio.

Baseball’s next great question is not simply how the sport divides existing revenues — but who controls the next generation of local media rights.

Tim Hanlon goes solo this week on episode 18 of In the Vicinity.

The likely winners of FCC Chairman Carr’s proposed rule change are not the communities he invokes in his rhetoric.

Madhive's Anthony Campanella joins Tim Hanlon on the latest episode of In the Vicinity.

Broadcasters argue that local television remains America's most important source of local news, and thus deserves greater regulatory flexibility. But maintaining that position requires more than producing local newscasts efficiently - it requires preserving what makes them uniquely trusted in the first place.

On the latest episode of In the Vicinity, Tim Hanlon speaks with Hearst‘s John Robertson and Viamedia’s Evan Rutchik about their effort to bring household-level addressable advertising to local broadcast.

On the latest episode of In the Vicinity, Tim Hanlon speaks with TVREV's Mike Gasbara.

If the future of advertising is increasingly tied to consumer identity, behavior and attribution, can local television realistically compete by simply becoming larger? The answer is probably no.

On the latest episode of In the Vicinity, Tim Hanlon sits down with Madison & Wall Managing Director Luke Stillman to discuss why location data has become a scale advantage.

Political advertising is buoying local television's economics. Whether it ultimately strengthens the industry's future, however, depends on what broadcasters choose to build with the proceeds.

Madhive’s Anthony Campanella on why massive sport events are the playgrounds of local brands.

On the latest episode of In the Vicinity, Tim Hanlon sits down with AdImpact CEO Kyle Roberts to unpack the company’s Political Projections Report.

Is local television is becoming less of a standalone rights business and more of a broader marketing and audience-development platform?

TVREV Co-Founder and Lead Analyst Alan Wolk joins Tim Hanlon on episode 12 of In the Vicinity.

As audiences move beyond channel numbers, TV station groups are increasingly reorganizing their duopolies around a single local brand identity rather than individual stations.

Local media veteran Tim Hanlon is joined by Madhive CEO Jim Wilson on episode 11 of In the Vicinity.

Broadcasters cannot out-scale Silicon Valley, out-engineer streaming platforms, or out-target digital advertising giants. But they can still offer something the largest technology companies often struggle to manufacture authentically: a sense of place.

Local media veteran Tim Hanlon is joined by TVREV Publisher Jason Damata on episode 10 of In the Vicinity.

Is local television becoming a sports distribution business? A spectrum infrastructure platform? A mature retransmission utility? Or simply a declining but still highly cash-generative media asset being managed for duration rather than growth?

Local media veteran Tim Hanlon goes solo in the latest episode of In the Vicinity.

DAZN is no longer simply a rights buyer or a global streaming outlet. It is positioning itself as a full-stack provider capable of handling the entire lifecycle of local sports distribution.

In Episode 8 of In the Vicinity, local media veteran Tim Hanlon is joined by a guest this week, Anthony Campanella, VP, Inventory Partnerships & Operations, Madhive.

Local broadcast TV’s real challenge is not how to preserve every part of the linear schedule. It is how to preserve the parts that still matter while shedding the parts that no longer do.

In Episode 7 of In the Vicinity, local media veterans Tim Hanlon and Jim Wilson unpack an industry that knows exactly what needs fixing—and is finally starting to align around how to do it.

Twenty years ago, USDTV was a clever idea ahead of its time — today, it may be exactly what NextGen TV needs to break through.