- NBC's Olympic-Size Problems Could Affect Other Networks
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 30, 2005
With about two months to go, NBC still has a $150 milli ...
- Dinner Is Served: FCC Now Favors A La Carte Cable Programming
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 30, 2005
True Republican thinking has finally taken hold in the world of cab ...
- Discovery Restructures Ad Team, Each Net To Get More TLC
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Discovery Networks is reorganizing its advertising sales team, giving execs a limit ...
- Study Finds Best TV Parental Control Is, Well, Parents
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Looking to counter increasing pressure from outside groups to have Federal regulato ...
- Explaining TV To Kids Is Tough; Not Explaining, Harder
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 29, 2005
How tough is it when your children watch some TV you'd rath ...
- CBS Gives Thanks, Sweeps Victory Still Up For Grabs
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 28, 2005
It was a day off for most of us last Thursday, b ...
- Phone Companies Want To Offer More Entertainment Options--Perhaps They Should Offer Less
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 28, 2005
With their own set of business growth problems, telephone companies in t ...
- CBS, ABC Battle For November Sweeps, Top Season Honors
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 25, 2005
Fighting it out through the last days of the November sweeps perio ...
- CBS Seeks Video Search, On-Demand Deals
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Two weeks ago CBS dipped its toe in the on-demand programming water ...
- First-Run Syndication Makes Strides, Off-Net Does Even Better
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 23, 2005
The November sweeps have been good for all new first-run syndication strip ...
- To Influence Kids, Market To Their Influencers, Says Nickelodeon
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Nickelodeon has seemingly found the secret for kids' marketers: Don't target childre ...
- Brilliant But Converged, NBC Moves Trio From Cable To The Web
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Despite assumptions that NBC Universal would let its Trio cable network d ...
- TiVo Is Crashing The Party--Networks Aren't Happy
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 22, 2005
TiVo can't get a break. First, it was the advertisers who didn ...
- CNN, Chrysler Strike Deal For Time 'Person of the Year'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 21, 2005
CNN has signed on The Chrysler Group to a multimedia platform de ...
- Are TV Affiliates Too Ho-hum About New Network Distribution Deals?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 21, 2005
In the old days, errant and questionable network distribution business decisions wou ...
- Must P2P TV: NBC Strikes Online File-Sharing Deal
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 18, 2005
Leaving no stone unturned in the world of alternative windows for ...
- 'Lost' In Transition: Disney To Produce Mini, Mobile Episodes
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 18, 2005
Walt Disney Co. will be producing new 'mini' episodes of the A ...
- Dish Network Gets Its Name On A Texas Town
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 18, 2005
Some marketing plans never die--and naming your town after a TV progr ...
- "Arrested Development" Almost Gets Sent Up The River: But First, A Send-up
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 18, 2005
Your show has been pulled from the November sweeps--which equates to ...
- Nets' Ad Revenue Takes A Dive, Blame The Olympics
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 17, 2005
Thanks to comparisons with last year's Summer Olympics, advertising revenue for t ...
- Fox and ABC Tangle Again In Vengeance-Filled Fight Over New Year's Eve
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 17, 2005
While most TV news of the last two weeks has revolved arou ...
- Report Raises Questions About Public Broadcast Chief
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 16, 2005
A report critical of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's recent activities und ...
- Inside TV Is Gone: Magazine Wasn't Inside Enough
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Gemstar-TV Guide International has turned Inside TV--out. Just eight months on t ...
- Fox, Outdoor Life Strike Product Placement Deal
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 15, 2005
News Corp.'s Fox Broadcasting put together a small but unusual product integrati ...
- NBC To Martha: "You're Fired"
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 15, 2005
NBC has had to redesign its prime-time lineup--by ending "The Apprentice: Mart ...
- Time Warner's Old TV Shows Move To AOL: Will Consumers Go Slumming?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Time Warner's deal to put decades-old TV shows on the Internet--free wi ...
- Cable Breaks With Broadcast Over DVR Ratings, Hallmark Accepts 'Live'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 14, 2005
Not all broadcast and cable programmers are thinking along the same lin ...
- NBC Wins Product Placement Contest So Far
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 14, 2005
In the age of on-demand, advertiser-less programming, which network wins--for marketers? Looki ...
- DVR Ratings Become New Negotiating Point Between Agencies, Networks
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 11, 2005
Weeks after major agencies began taking the position that they would acce ...
- A Puzzlement? Toyota Leaves "Nip/Tuck," But Show Still Sold Out For Season
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 11, 2005
F/X's "Nip/Tuck" has seemingly lost an advertiser, Toyota Motor Corp., because ...