For local TV, recent court rulings could mean more political dollars chasing scarce airtime — but at lower rates.

BIA Advisory Services’s Rick Ducey joins Tim Hanlon this week on episode 25 of In the Vicinity.

Jerry Lewis and a loose network of local stations demonstrated decades ago a model that may once again make economic sense in today’s fragmented sports market.

Lakes Media President and Owner Tom Birch joins Tim Hanlon this week on episode 24 of In the Vicinity.

The FCC spent years giving broadcasters reasons to invent complicated ways not to own stations, and is now giving them reasons to own those stations after all.

Media Inno Managing Partner Tom Sly joins Tim Hanlon this week on episode 23 of In the Vicinity.

The Charter-Cox merger is more than a cable television story: it gives one of the country’s largest broadband connectivity companies substantially greater scale to challenge the traditional economics of local television.

Madhive Chief Innovation Officer Aaron Brown joins Tim Hanlon this week on episode 22 of In the Vicinity.

If “stronger local journalism” is the public-interest case for greater broadcast consolidation, it should come with measurable commitments.

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.