- Midwest TV Station Fined By FCC For Pokemon 'Program-Length Commercials
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 31, 2008
One recent Midwest TV station committed a kids' programming/commercial federal violation--which ...
- Court Rules IAC Doesn't Need Liberty's Approval For Break-Up Plan
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 31, 2008
It looks like Barry Diller doesn't need John Malone's pat on t ...
- 'Celebrity Apprentice' Scores Well Against CBS's NCAA Tournament
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 31, 2008
After starting January in the number one position on Thursday--thanks to "Celebri ...
- Nielsen Stumbles Over Network Metrics: Bad Omen For New Digital Measures?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 31, 2008
Did millions of dollars go to small cable networks that didn't deser ...
- Nogawski To Lead CBS Television Distribution As Prez/COO
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 28, 2008
CBS Television Distribution has named John Nogawski as its president/COO, following t ...
- USA Network Beats CW In Total Viewers--But That's Not The Whole Story
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 28, 2008
Could a broadcast network--the CW--be losing ground to USA Network--a cable networ ...
- Is The Writers' Strike Over? Not For Viewers.
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 28, 2008
In case you didn't know it, the writers' strike is still o ...
- Comcast, Time Warner Look To Invest In WiMax Technology
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 27, 2008
Two of the largest cable operators in the country, Comcast and Ti ...
- USA Network Continues Ratings Streak
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 27, 2008
USA Network registered another win in the first quarter as cable's best-rat ...
- New TV Spot Business Model: Get Rid Of The Paperwork And Waste
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 27, 2008
Concerning the TV spot advertising business, Irwin Gotlieb, CEO of WPP's Gro ...
- NBC Upfront To Unveil 52-Week Schedule
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Keeping to its word, NBC will hold a brief upfront programming presentati ...
- Britney Clicks On CBS
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 26, 2008
If networks have questions about what will work when TV shows co ...
- Fox Business Cracks On Cramer's Credibility -- But Should Get Own House In Order
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 26, 2008
At Fox Business Channel, it's all about dirty sexy money. The upsta ...
- HD Rates Rising Fast, Revs To Hit $421 Mil By 2013
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Five years from now, about two-thirds of TV households will have ...
- Pod Nod: Magna Calls On Nielsen To Measure Commercial Breaks
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Commercial pods--not an average of all commercial minutes in a program--are wh ...
- Your Cable Operator: What's Its Name? Might Not Matter
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Local cable systems never had those local brand names that TV statio ...
- Buyers Want C3 Sports Ratings, Programmers Protest
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 24, 2008
Sports TV programmers in general didn't adhere to the new industry metr ...
- Hoopla Online: CBS' NCAA Digital Package Scores
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 24, 2008
CBS can tout higher traditional TV ratings for the first round ...
- Less Live Coverage During China's Olympics Adding To TV's Lack Of Spontaneity
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 24, 2008
There are now 5-second and 10-second delays of live TV award show ...
- Digital Conversion: Many Americans Won't Pay To Play
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 21, 2008
Digital conversion may not be a boon for cable operators and satelli ...
- Downward: Trib Records Weak 4Q, 2007
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 21, 2008
Tribune Company has spent just a few months under new management, b ...
- Moment Of Truth: Fox Bests CBS
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 21, 2008
Two recent ratings moves by Fox prove one thing: One network c ...
- MediaVest: Liberals Driving Cable News Ratings In '08
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 20, 2008
Moderate and liberal voters are driving cable network ratings in the presidenti ...
- Fox's 'Idol' Still Tops, But Glitter Is Fading
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 20, 2008
Fox's programming trend of mostly good and some bad continues: "American Ido ...
- New Network Model: Fewer Than 22 Hours A Week?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 20, 2008
The deepening funk over new TV shows has NBC Universal's Jeff Zuck ...
- Trad Media Plans Remain, But Consumers Harder To Pin Down
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 19, 2008
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--Neither consumers or marketers may be responding to typical media pla ...
- CBS' Monday Comedies Hit Season Highs
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 19, 2008
TV consumers have started coming back to network TV --for laughs. ...
- New TV Math: CBS Likes Internet Addition
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 19, 2008
TV ratings should be easy enough for people to digest -- ...
- CBS TV Stations Launch Local Ad Net
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 18, 2008
CBS Television Stations has another way to extend its TV properties ...
- Carat: 62% Of Viewers Will Return To Fave Net Shows
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Network executives have been holding their collective breaths: Will viewers return ...