- Comcast Gets 2Q Bounce
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 31, 2008
The biggest cable system operator, Comcast Corp., is making some gains again ...
- Meredith 4Q: Print, Broadcast Flounder, Net Posts Gains
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 31, 2008
Meredith Corp.'s fourth-quarter 2008 financial results hit investors hard. Earnings were mo ...
- 'Talent,' Wins, Reality Shows Own Tuesday Night
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 31, 2008
Network summer ratings are down 3% this season so far, but t ...
- Shake, Rattle And Roll: Just What TV Business Needs
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 31, 2008
Perhaps it was a message sent from some future TV-watching generation ...
- Viewers See Online As 'TV Replacement'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
New research suggests up to 20% of TV viewing occurs online, a ...
- Nielsen: Most Americans Ready For Digital Conversion
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Nielsen Media Research now says that as of July, just 9.3% ...
- 'Mad Men' A Hit? Try A Whopping TWO Million Viewers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
uccess for an original scripted cable program has increasingly new perspectives. AMC ...
- Starcom Cuts Ratings Deal With Twentieth TV
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Starcom USA and syndication distributor Twentieth Television have signed a deal th ...
- IPG Seals Navic Deal, Beefs Up Spot Placement
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Just a month after Microsoft Corp. bought Navic Networks, it has ma ...
- MGM Launches This TV Channel, Strong On Kids' Shows, Movies
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Looking to exploit the vast and, to date, unused local digital ...
- NFL Heads Into Lab: Sunday Night Football Games To Be Streamed
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 29, 2008
The NFL has convinced its Sunday Night Football partner, NBC, to g ...
- Leno's Finale Means Impressive Ad Haul For NBC
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 28, 2008
How much is Jay Leno's last night on NBC worth for ...
- Belo 2Q Down, Internet, Retrans Revs Up
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 28, 2008
Belo Corp. earnings inched up in the second quarter, but overall reven ...
- TV Shows At Comic-Con: Going Straight To Consumers, Risks And All
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 28, 2008
This is the week TV producers hope bloggers, whisperers, fanatics and oth ...
- Scripps 2Q Revs: Cable, Digital Deliver In Troubled Economy
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 25, 2008
Second-quarter financial results at the new Scripps Networks Interactive showed some positi ...
- 'Dance' Keeps Summer Rocking For Fox
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 25, 2008
Fox took top honors on Wednesday night with its big summer sh ...
- Obama's Olympics Buy: A Vote For Network TV
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 25, 2008
With all the endorsements floating around, Democratic presidential candidate. Barack Obama h ...
- NBC's Health Net Gets 4 Cross-Platform Partners
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 24, 2008
NBC's NBC Digital Health Network has added four content and distribution partne ...
- 'Wipeout' Is Dunking Rivals, 'High School Musical' Gets Poor Grade
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 24, 2008
Singing and dancing high school students don't cut it; it's back ...
- FCC's Bad Math: Half-Million-Dollar Fine For Half A Second Of Breast?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 24, 2008
A recent episode of TNT's "Saving Grace" had a bunch of expletives--a ...
- CW's Morningstar Now Bats For MLB Sales
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Senior advertising executive Bill Morningstar, who spent over a decade at T ...
- Once Is Not Enough: CBS Scores With Reruns
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
If you're keeping score, the theory that some reruns are better th ...
- It's The Web Again For 'Gossip Girl': Will Viewers Find Show On TV?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 23, 2008
For the CW, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Again. Aft ...
- NBC: GM Supports 'Enemy,' New Show For Poehler
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. -- NBC is still the fourth-place network, and J ...
- NBC Stacks Up Olympic 'Exposure'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. -- NBC's plan to measure the entire Beijing Olympi ...
- McDonald's Coffee On Local News Show: Viewers Don't Fuss, Anchors Don't Sip
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Research says even the worst of product placement is greeted by viewe ...
- TCA: CBS Ups CSI Expectations, Couric Stays
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 21, 2008
Beverly Hills, CA--Despite the disruption of last year's writers' strike, and ...
- Univision Awards Sizzle, 'Dance' Moves
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 21, 2008
While CBS was, yes, going to the dogs, Univision found some headlin ...
- NBC-Weinstein Snafu: Programming Pacts Need Deal-Making Mark, Not Scar
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 21, 2008
In the entertainment world, a handshake is the deal. But for t ...
- Basic Cable Makes Emmy History
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 18, 2008
Cable TV continues to break new ground--at least when it comes ...