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Walk into a typical LPTV station and ask the owner how the business is doing. You will get an answer based on feel. Things are good. Things are tight. We’re holding our own. Sometimes that feel is accurate. More often, it is a rough approximation that misses important things happening
By Lee Allen Miller, Executive Director Walk into a typical LPTV station and ask the owner how the business is doing. You will get an answer based on feel. Things are good. Things are tight. We’re holding our own. Sometimes that feel is accurate. More often, it is a rough
Why ATBA Opposes the Push to Open LPTV Channels to 5G Broadcast By Lee Allen Miller, Executive Director, Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance On May 12, 2026, the LPTV Broadcasters Association, through its chairman and founder Frank Copsidas, sent an open letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr asking the Commission to
By Lee Allen Miller, Executive Director The job title has not changed much in thirty years. General Manager. You see it on station websites, on business cards, on LinkedIn profiles. What the job actually involves has changed enormously, and I am not sure the industry has fully caught up. When
Local news is the heart of what many LPTV stations do. It is also one of the most time-pressured operations at any station. A small newsroom is often producing multiple newscasts a day, covering a geography that would challenge a much larger team, with fewer resources than the full-power competition.
I have been in broadcasting long enough to see the regulatory landscape shift more times than I can count. Spectrum auctions. Repacking. Must-carry battles. The ATSC 3.0 authorization. The ongoing proceedings around simulcasting, tuner requirements, and the sunset of ATSC 1.0. If you lead a station, you are leading through
Traffic and scheduling is one of the least glamorous functions at a TV station and one of the most important. If the traffic log is wrong, the revenue is wrong. If the schedule has errors, the viewer experience suffers and advertisers get unhappy. Traffic managers carry a lot of weight
One of the hardest conversations I haave with LPTV owners goes like this. They tell me they are exhausted. They are doing everything. They are the sales manager, the chief engineer, the news director, the traffic manager, the HR department, and on most days the person emptying the trash. I
Every week I get asked some version of the same question. What should an LPTV station be doing with artificial intelligence? The honest answer is that it depends on the station, but there is a general framework that I think most operators will find useful. I want to spend this
