- The Hot Season
Media Magazine, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 20, 2006
Picture the typical summer TV viewer: too much barbecuing, too much Frisb ...
- NBC's 'Heroes' Gets Free Download On iTunes
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 31, 2006
NBC wants viewers to watch "Heroes." To get them started, the netwo ...
- Political Ad Boom Fuels Belo's Earnings
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 31, 2006
TV station and media company Belo Corp. has seen slightly better financi ...
- MTV Needs More Aces In The Digital TV Poker Game
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 31, 2006
MTV's amazing record of hip has had incredible staying power, despite ...
- Charles Collier, 11 Execs Exit Court TV
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman, David Goetzl - Friday, July 28, 2006
The fallout over the sale of Court TV, now under the directi ...
- TV and Drugs: Rough Combo For Viewers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 28, 2006
TV and drugs make for strange bedfellows--in TV scripts, occasionally in spor ...
- PBS Becomes Public Broadband System, Offers Downloads -- For A Fee
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 27, 2006
PASADENA, CALIF.--PBS has joined the digital entertainment race, much like the commerci ...
- New Digital Life For Fox's 'Arrested Development'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 27, 2006
A new digital entertainment life awaits Fox's "Arrested Development," the critically acclaime ...
- PBS Ready To Fight For 'The War'--As Soon As It Finds The Battlefield
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 27, 2006
In the throes of any war, you'll find people using ugly four-lett ...
- Ad Council Hails Parents As 'TV Boss,' Provides 'Media Plan' For Kids
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 26, 2006
A new $300 million TV content-control campaign from the Advertising Council com ...
- Tour de France Proves Nielsen Tour de Force
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 26, 2006
OLN's sagging "Tour de France" ratings meant cycling on TV equated wi ...
- TV News Alert: World Cup Ratings Bigger Than Super Bowl's
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 26, 2006
A recent Reuters headline read: "World Cup ratings equal 64 Super Bowls ...
- Task Force Set To Unveil Electronic Trading System, Outreach To Media
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, July 25, 2006
An ad industry task force exploring the development of a controversial onli ...
- NBC-Toyota: Upfront Deal On Program Engagement
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Toyota Motors Sales' deal with NBC last week to guarantee its med ...
- Fox Keeps Strategy, Won't Move 'Idol'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 25, 2006
PASADENA, CALIF. --Fox is sticking with success. It has no plans ...
- Steve Case's Sorry For Time Warner. Next Case
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 25, 2006
There's nothing better than an apologizing TV executive--make that a wannabe ...
- NBC Promises Better Fall Ratings; New Programming Formulas
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 24, 2006
PASADENA, CALIF. -- Hit with another low-rated prime-time finish this past seaso ...
- TV's Handicaps: Just Something To Get Over
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 24, 2006
Lift up the hood on the successes on TV and in sport ...
- MyNetworkTV's Advertising Upfront: A Ways To Go
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 21, 2006
PASADENA, CALIF. -- Although other broadcast networks have completed their upfront sal ...
- AT&T Adds 2 Networks To U-verse
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 21, 2006
While AT&T and Verizon's new video services struggle with local-government franchise law ...
- New TV Shows: Give Me The Drama Of Safeway
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 21, 2006
Now that we have a reality TV show about the retailer Macy' ...
- NBC Promotes Via Netflix
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 20, 2006
NBC has tapped a new promotion source. Looking to new alternative med ...
- ABC Rebrands Prime-Time Newscast
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 20, 2006
To reflect its 24-hour delivery system, ABC has renamed its prime-time n ...
- ESPN's Mobile Phone Lesson: All Sports--Not All The Time
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 20, 2006
The TV-on-cell-phone madness has just hung up. Merrill Lynch says it's essential ...
- ABC Juggles 10 New Fall Shows, Bets On Different Marketing Strategy
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 19, 2006
PASADENA, CALIF. -- Ten new shows and one daring move with "Grey ...
- Cable's A La Carte Packaging Will Limit Cable Nets, Kagan Says
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 19, 2006
There is little benefit to "a la carte" cable network packaging f ...
- Is Fox Too Late In Programming Early?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Are we short on national morning, gabbing TV shows? Did we ne ...
- CBS Digital Sees Ad Gains At TV's Upfront
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 18, 2006
PASADENA, CALIF.--A senior CBS digital media executive said that while Internet ...
- CBS: Commercial Ratings, DVRs Are Good For Advertisers
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 18, 2006
PASADENA, CALIF. -- CBS's Chief Research Officer David Poltrack says the comi ...
- The CW Explains Programming Cuts; 'Everwood' Out
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 18, 2006
PASADENA, CALIF. -- The CW's first network presentation at the Television Criti ...