Local TV advertising anitrust (Direct)





Entities that purchased broadcast television spot advertising directly from TV Broadcaster(s) between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2018 may qualify for a portion of money recovered in class action settlements.



Settlement Amount: $48,000,000



Filing Deadline: October 2023



Class Members:



All entities that purchased Broadcast Television Spot Advertising directly from one or more Broadcaster Defendants in a designated market area (“DMA”) within which two or more of the Broadcaster Defendants sold broadcast television spot advertisements on broadcast television stations and you paid one or more Defendants directly for all or a portion of the cost of such broadcast television spot advertisements from January 1, 2014 to and including December 31, 2018.



Class Period:



January 1, 2014 to and including December 31, 2018



Defendants:



  • CBS (Settled)
  • Cox Media Group (Settled)
  • Dreamcatcher Broadcasting
  • FOX (Settled)
  • Griffin Communications
  • Meredith Corporation
  • Nexstar Media Group
  • Raycom Media
  • The E.W. Scripps Company
  • Sinclair Broadcast Group
  • TEGNA
  • Tribune Broadcasting Company
  • Tribune Media Company


Cox Reps:

  • Telerep
  • HRP
  • Katz
  • Continental
  • Millennium
  • Eagle


Eligible DMAs:



Cities A-G





Abilene-Sweetwater, TX***

Albany, GA

Albany-Schenectady, NY

Amarillo, TX

Atlanta, GA***

Augusta-Aiken, GA

Austin, TX***

Bakersfield, CA***

Baltimore, MD

Baton Rouge, LA

Beaumont -Port Arthur, TX***

Billings, MT

Birmingham-Anniston-Tuscaloosa, AL***

Boise, ID***

Boston, MA Buffalo, NY***

Butte-Bozeman, MT

Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque, IA Champaign/Springfield-Decatur, IL***

Charleston, SC

Charleston-Huntington, WV***

Charlotte, NC***

Chicago, IL Cincinnati, OH***

Cleveland-Akron (Canton), OH***

Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO

Columbia, SC***

Columbus, GA (Opelika, AL)

Columbus-Chillicothe, OH

Corpus Christi, TX

Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX***

Davenport, IA

Rock Island-Moline, IL***

Dayton, OH Denver, CO***

Des Moines-Ames, IA***

Detroit, MI

Dothan, AL

El Paso-Las Cruces, TX/NM***

Evansville, IN

Flint-Saginaw -Bay City, MI***

Fresno-Visalia, CA

Ft. Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR***

Gainesville, FL

Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, MI***

Green Bay-Appleton, WI

Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, NC***

Greenville-New Bern-Washington, NC***

Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson, SC/NC***



Cities H-N





Harlingen -Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, TX *** Harrisburg -Lancaster - Lebanon-York, PA***

Hartford -New Haven, CT***

Hattiesburg -Laurel, MS

Honolulu, HI Houston, TX***

Huntsville-Decatur-Florence, AL ***

Indianapolis, IN***

Jackson, MS

Jacksonville, FL

Johnstown -Altoona-State College, PA

Kansas City, MO***

Knoxville, TN***

Lafayette, LA

Lansing, MI***

Las Vegas, NV***

Lexington, KY

Little Rock -Pine Bluff, AR***

Los Angeles, CA

Louisville, KY

Lubbock, TX

Macon, GA

Memphis, TN

Miami -Ft. Lauderdale, FL***

Milwaukee, WI ***

Minneapolis - St. Paul, MN

Missoula, MT

Mobile-Pensacola-Ft. Walton, FL***

Myrtle Beach-Florence, SC

Nashville, TN***

New Orleans, LA***

New York, NY

Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, VA

Odessa -Midland, TX

Oklahoma City, OK***

Omaha, NE

Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, FL

Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg, MO

Panama City, FL

Peoria-Bloomington, IL***

Philadelphia, PA***

Phoenix-Prescott, AZ***

Pittsburgh, PA***

Portland, OR Vancouver, WA***

Portland-Auburn, ME***

Providence, RI

New Bedford, MA




Cities R-Z





Raleigh -Durham, NC***

Richmond -Petersburg, VA***

Roanoke -Lynchburg, VA***
Rochester, NY***
Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, CA***
Salt Lake City -St. George, UT***
San Angelo, TX***
San Antonio, TX
San Diego, CA***
San Francisco -Oakland -San Jose, CA***
Savannah, GA
Seattle -Tacoma, WA***
Shreveport, LA Sioux City, IA
Springfield-Holyoke, MA
St. Louis, MO***
Syracuse, NY
Tallahassee, FL-Thomasville-GA***
Tampa-St. Pete-Sarasota, FL***
Toledo, OH***
Tri -Cities, TN -VA (Bristol, VA Greenville, TN

Johnson City, TN Kingsport TN) ***
Tucson, AZ
Tulsa, OK***
Twin Falls, ID
Tyler-Longview-Lufkin-Nacogdoches, TX
Waco -Temple -Bryan, TX***
Washington, DC***
West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, FL
Wheeling, WV/Steubenville, OH
Wichita Falls-Lawton, TX
Wichita-Hutchinson, KS***
Wilkes-Barre-Scranton-Hazleton, PA***
Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick, WA



* Defendant owned but did not operate at least one station in DMA

** Defendant operated but did not own at least one station in DMA

*** Cox or Katz worked with multiple Defendant owners or operators in DMA



Background:



Plaintiffs claim that that they were injured as a result of defendants’ alleged participation in an unlawful conspiracy to fix, raise, maintain, or stabilize the price levels of broadcast television spot advertising and their illegal sharing of information.


Settling Defendants deny these allegations and all alleged wrongdoing. The Court previously dismissed ShareBuilders from the lawsuit, but has not otherwise decided who is right or wrong. Instead, the settling parties have agreed to the Settlements to avoid the risk, cost, and inconvenience of further litigation.



Definition of "Broadcast TV"



Broadcast Television Spot Advertising means advertising spots that run on a broadcast television channel or channels that use public airwaves, at no cost to the viewer, to transmit programs available to any television set within range of a broadcast transmitter, or that are retransmitted via multichannel video programming distributors (“MVPDs”) such as cable, fiber optic networks (e.g., Verizon FiOS), satellite (e.g., DirecTV), and virtual MVPDs (e.g., Hulu + Live TV, fuboTV, YouTube TV).


For the sake of clarity, Broadcast Television Spot Advertising includes advertising spots sold by and run on local broadcast stations that are usually affiliated with broadcast TV networks such as ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, The CW, and MyTVNetwork.


It does not include advertising spots that run on channels solely available through MVPDs or virtual MVPDs, such as ESPN, CNN, HGTV, Bravo, MSNBC, TBS, FX, or Fox News Channel.As such, most broadcast channels – so-called “commercial channels” – gain revenue through advertising. Think CBS, ABC, NBC, or The CW.



This is not an official Court Notice. Information contained in this Summary is subject to change.


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