Tribune Media

Tribune Media was a diversified media and entertainment company with broadcasting, digital, and content businesses. Through Tribune Media Services (TMS), it provided comprehensive entertainment data APIs including TV programming, movie showtimes, celebrity information, and sports data. Tribune Media was acquired by Nexstar Media Group in 2019. The TMS OnConnect APIs are now operated by Gracenote (a Nielsen company), providing metadata for TV shows, movies, celebrities, and televised sports to consumer electronics manufacturers, cable operators, entertainment platforms, and application developers.

Tribune Media publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Celebrities API, Lineups API, Movies API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Media, Entertainment, Broadcasting, Television, and Movies.

The Tribune Media catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Tribune Media’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, getting-started guide, signup flow, and 11 more developer resources.

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1 published contract

Media Entertainment Broadcasting Television Movies Sports Celebrity Fortune 1000

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Programming & Scheduling Management

BC-3730

LineupsProgramsSeriesStations

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Composite quality — 34.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 7.3 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.4 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Broadcast Television (ATSC 3.0 / NEXTGEN TV, HbbTV, DVB)	undeclared	-	-	-
Film & Media Identifiers (EIDR, ISAN, MovieLabs, DPP)	undeclared	-	-	-

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APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Tribune Media Celebrities API

The Celebrities API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for celebrities.

Tribune Media Lineups API

The Lineups API from Tribune Media — 4 operation(s) for lineups.

Tribune Media Movies API

The Movies API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for movies.

Tribune Media Online Video API

The Online Video API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for online video.

Tribune Media Programs API

The Programs API from Tribune Media — 5 operation(s) for programs.

Tribune Media Series API

The Series API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for series.

Tribune Media Social API

The Social API from Tribune Media — 1 operation(s) for social.

Tribune Media Sports API

The Sports API from Tribune Media — 5 operation(s) for sports.

Tribune Media Stations API

The Stations API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for stations.

Tribune Media Theatres API

The Theatres API from Tribune Media — 2 operation(s) for theatres.

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Open Collections 11

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

TMS OnConnect API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities Lineups API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities Movies API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities Online Video API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities Programs API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities Series API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities Social API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities Sports API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities Stations API

OPEN COLLECTION

TMS OnConnect Celebrities Theatres API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tribune Media Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tribune Media Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Tribune Media Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Tribune Media Context

9 classes · 41 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Tribune Media — tms onconnect rules

12 rules · 4 errors 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Tribune Media — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

TMS Airing

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TMS Program

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Tms Airing Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Tms Program Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Tms Onconnect Get Lineup Grid Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Tms Onconnect Get Lineups Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Tms Onconnect Get Movie Showings Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Tms Onconnect Search Programs Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Tribune Media Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tribune Media Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Tribune Media Agentic Access

32 operations

32 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Press 8

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

Covers Media Group Announces the Launch of their New Sportsbetting Podcast Lineup

WGN Morning News Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Live Primetime Special

Press Coverage

Nexstar Media Group Completes Tribune Media Acquisition Creating the Nation’s Largest L...

WHO-HD’s 20th Annual RVTV Cy-Hawk Tailgate Hits The Road Monday

AN News

About Nexstar

KTXL/FOX 40 Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto To Debut New News Set and Redesigned Studio

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Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: tribune-media
name: Tribune Media
description: Tribune Media was a diversified media and entertainment company with broadcasting, digital, and content businesses.
  Through Tribune Media Services (TMS), it provided comprehensive entertainment data APIs including TV programming, movie
  showtimes, celebrity information, and sports data. Tribune Media was acquired by Nexstar Media Group in 2019. The TMS OnConnect
  APIs are now operated by Gracenote (a Nielsen company), providing metadata for TV shows, movies, celebrities, and televised
  sports to consumer electronics manufacturers, cable operators, entertainment platforms, and application developers.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tribune-media.png
tags:
- Media
- Entertainment
- Broadcasting
- Television
- Movies
- Sports
- Celebrity
- Fortune 1000
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tribune-media/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-celebrities-api
  name: Tribune Media Celebrities API
  description: The Celebrities API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for celebrities.
  tags:
  - Celebrities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-celebrities-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-lineups-api
  name: Tribune Media Lineups API
  description: The Lineups API from Tribune Media — 4 operation(s) for lineups.
  tags:
  - Lineups
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-lineups-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-movies-api
  name: Tribune Media Movies API
  description: The Movies API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for movies.
  tags:
  - Movies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-movies-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-online-video-api
  name: Tribune Media Online Video API
  description: The Online Video API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for online video.
  tags:
  - Online Video
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-online-video-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-programs-api
  name: Tribune Media Programs API
  description: The Programs API from Tribune Media — 5 operation(s) for programs.
  tags:
  - Programs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-programs-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-series-api
  name: Tribune Media Series API
  description: The Series API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for series.
  tags:
  - Series
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-series-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-social-api
  name: Tribune Media Social API
  description: The Social API from Tribune Media — 1 operation(s) for social.
  tags:
  - Social
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-social-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-sports-api
  name: Tribune Media Sports API
  description: The Sports API from Tribune Media — 5 operation(s) for sports.
  tags:
  - Sports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-sports-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-stations-api
  name: Tribune Media Stations API
  description: The Stations API from Tribune Media — 3 operation(s) for stations.
  tags:
  - Stations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-stations-api-openapi.yml
- aid: tribune-media:tribune-media-theatres-api
  name: Tribune Media Theatres API
  description: The Theatres API from Tribune Media — 2 operation(s) for theatres.
  tags:
  - Theatres
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tribune-media-theatres-api-openapi.yml
features:
- TV lineup and electronic programming guide (EPG) data
- Movie showtimes and theatre location lookups
- Celebrity details and appearance schedules
- Sports event schedules and team information
- Series, episode, and program metadata
- Program images via Media Cloud CDN
- International lineup support
- Online video and social data endpoints
useCases:
- Electronic programming guide (EPG) integration for smart TVs and set-top boxes
- Movie discovery and showtime lookup applications
- Sports schedule and broadcast tracking
- Celebrity appearance and talk show scheduling
- Content recommendation engines using entertainment metadata
- Mobile apps integrating TV schedule and movie showtimes
integrations:
- Gracenote (Nielsen) - current operator of TMS data services
- Digitalsmiths Seamless Discovery platform - original API infrastructure
- Placecast MatchAPI - movie showtimes integration
- Mashery - API key management and developer portal
solutions:
- Consumer electronics manufacturers requiring EPG data
- Cable and satellite operators needing programming metadata
- Entertainment platform providers building content discovery
- Application developers integrating TV and movie information
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tribune-media-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tribune-media-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tribune-media-finops.yml
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/nexstar-media-group/
  name: Nexstar Media Group
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: Tribune Media was acquired by Nexstar Media Group in 2019.
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/tribune-media-capability-edges.yml
  name: Tribune Media Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tribune-media-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tribune-media-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tribune-media-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tribune-company
- type: Website
  url: https://www.tribunemedia.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.tmsapi.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.tmsapi.com/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.tmsapi.com/Getting_Started
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://developer.tmsapi.com/page/API_Terms_of_Use
- type: Signup
  url: https://developer.tmsapi.com/member/register
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: nexstar-media-group
x-acquired-date: '2019-09-19'
x-status-basis: Nexstar Media Group completed the Tribune Media acquisition on 2019-09-19 (https://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar_completes_tribune_transaction_2019/);
  tribunemedia.com now serves only merger news under a Nexstar copyright (checked 2026-09-24). The TMS data APIs this record
  lists were merged into Gracenote in 2014 and sold with Gracenote to Nielsen (announced 2016); developer.tmsapi.com now serves
  the Gracenote API Gateway. roadmap#654

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