- Score for World Cup Soccer - More Eyeballs, No Speeches
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, February 28, 2005
For a TV program, a billion viewers would mean a lot ...
- A Run for the Roses
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 25, 2005
New daytime syndication shows are always a run for the roses. No ...
- Best Oscar award: The price of a 30-second commercial
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 24, 2005
Years ago a producer I know wanted to produce the ultimate ...
- Appraising the TV Upfront Market: Watch for snake eyes, or wait until May
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Reading the TV upfront tealeaves is always the sport of gambling foo ...
- One Bush-Minded Reporter Gets the Right Questions
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, February 22, 2005
TV Watch keeps a close eye on entertainment business journalists and journalis ...
- One Hot Marketing Iron
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 18, 2005
With fire and smoke on their minds, entertainment marketing and media executiv ...
- NHL Stops Its Season, TV Executives Shrug Shoulders
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 17, 2005
Television network executives have responded to the end of the National Hock ...
- Mitchell to Leave PBS, Bush Administration Offers Network Little Help
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Working for PBS is the nether world of television; it's a so ...
- Local Newscasts Are Not About Local Politics
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, February 15, 2005
A study by the University of Southern California's Norman Lear Center point ...
- Oscars Ready to Rock But Maybe Not Roll
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, February 14, 2005
With the explosion of new TV awards shows, even the biggest progr ...
- Product Placement Claims Nothing
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 11, 2005
If no claims are made by a consumer product as to t ...
- High Fines for Broadcast Performers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 10, 2005
Brave are those minority officials in government these days who seemingly ...
- 'DisneyWar' More Like a Sitcom
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 9, 2005
The fairy tales at Walt Disney always seem to have some nightmar ...
- Super Bowl Sings With Controversy - Woman Loses Strap, NFL Howls Like a Tenor
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Just when you thought everything was safe in the Super Bowl broadcas ...
- Hold the Hot Sauce, Super Bowl Content Is Super Safe
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, February 7, 2005
If the Super Bowl advertisers could have seen me last night wi ...
- Family Viewing: A Bone-Crunching High-Rated Super Bowl
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 4, 2005
Cable network executives may puff their collective chests out when taking cred ...
- Martha Gets Back to TV, Ex-Cons Everywhere Phone Mark Burnett
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 3, 2005
Ex-cons now get their own TV show, but TV producer Mark Burne ...
- An Offer A&E Can't Refuse
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, February 1, 2005
For A&E Network, the program deal for "The Sopranos" was a de ...