The Echostar/Dish Network architect’s latest media venture looks like more than simply a passive investment in low-power television stations.

Matrix Solutions’ Brenda Hetrick joins Tim Hanlon for episode 29 of In the Vicinity.

Local TV station sales will pay down only a fraction of Skydance’s debt - but expect CBS to be a net seller, nonetheless.

Madhive CEO Jim Wilson joins Tim Hanlon for episode 28 of In the Vicinity.

If local news expansion depends on employees continually absorbing more duties, the apparent productivity gain may ultimately come at the expense of the newsroom’s capacity to report.

The CW is becoming a strategic programming and distribution asset inside Nexstar’s much larger local-TV operation — valuable not only for what it airs, but for the leverage, optionality and reach it gives the station group owner.

Tim Hanlon goes solo this week on episode 27 of In the Vicinity.

If conventional television requires only 2 MHz of channel capacity, what should happen to the remaining 4?

eMarketer’s Ross Benes joins Tim Hanlon this week on episode 26 of In the Vicinity.

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.