Barrington Revenue Down 5%

Barrington Broadcasting Group reported net revenues of $27.4 million in the third quarter, down 4.8% from the same quarter last year. Gross revenues slid 5.6% to $31.9 million, due primarily due to a decrease in political revenues of $3.5 million to $0.3 million.

Local revenues increased $1.2 million, or 7%, to $18.9 million, and national revenues increased 6.8% to $7.1 million.

Barrington's retransmission revenues increased 16.1% to $2.5 million.

"Our continued focus on local sales combined with national and retransmission revenue growth produced positive results this quarter," said K. James Yager, CEO of Barrington. "We continue to be committed to the company's three key priorities of re-engineering of our station-level operations, development of direct local sales strategies, and the growth of the stations' local digital platforms."

Barrington owns, operates, or supports operations of 24 TV stations. Barrington is owned and controlled by Pilot Group.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.