- Time Warner Cable Reports Video Revs Dip, But Broadband Grows
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 30, 2014
Time Warner Cable continues to lose steam with its video business, b ...
- Turner Taps Kim To Head Data, Ad Ops
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 30, 2014
Turner Broadcasting has hired a chief data executive. Stephano Kim will beco ...
- Charter Communications Reports 8% Upswing In Revs
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Charter Communications, the fourth-largest U.S. cable operator, had high single-digit-percentage revenue growt ...
- What If HBO Offered An Entire Program Package Online?
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, October 30, 2014
What if HBO went beyond an online version of itself and beca ...
- Vintage Stuff From Viacom Cable Nets Gets A New Home On Hulu
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Hulu, in a deal with Viacom, gets rights to lots of vintage programmi ...
- Horizon Media: More Than One-Third of Consumers Interested In Stand-Alone HBO Service
MAD, Larissa Faw - Tuesday, October 28, 2014
That number jumps to nearly half among current HBO subscribers and ev ...
- TV Nets Make More Early-Season Scatter Deals
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 28, 2014
A majority of media agencies' national TV media buys confirm earlier estimat ...
- Discovery Channel Taps Ross As President
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 28, 2014
On the heels of a merger among three top TV production companie ...
- TV Retrans Will Soar To $9B By 2020
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 27, 2014
TV stations' retransmission revenues are expected to nearly double in six year ...
- AMC Buys Major Stake In BBC America
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 24, 2014
AMC Networks will spend $200 million to acquire a nearly 50% equi ...
- NBC Posts Best Ratings Numbers, Fox Is Big Loser
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 24, 2014
After two weeks of the TV season, advertisers now have their fir ...
- BBC America Now Controlled By U.S. Cable Operator AMC
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, October 24, 2014
The U.S. cable TV broadcaster behind shows including "Mad Men," "Breaking Ba ...
- How Unbundling Content And Audience Will Negatively Impact Advertisers
Audience Buying Insider, John Piccone - Friday, October 24, 2014
As a reaction to the news last week that HBO and C ...
- NBCU Cable Hit With Ad Declines, Broadcast Nets Up
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 23, 2014
Comcast's NBCUniversal saw its cable and broadcast divisions headed in different directio ...
- Looking Five Years Ahead: Greater Ratings Anxiety For Cable Networks?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 24, 2014
Five years from now, what's considered poor ratings for cable TV networ ...
- Dish Blacks Out 7 Turner Broadcasting Channels, Including CNN
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Another major blackout of TV networks has started -- this one featuri ...
- FCC Suspends Review Of Comcast-Time Warner Merger
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The Federal Communications Commission has delayed its review of Comcast's proposed $ ...
- John Oliver Is A Very Funny Fellow
MediaDailyNews, Gary Holmes - Monday, October 20, 2014
John Oliver is having his moment. His satirical news show on HB ...
- Devices And OTT Lead Video Consumption Growth
Mobile Insider, Steve Smith - Tuesday, October 21, 2014
People are taking control of their TV experience and at the sa ...
- Streaming A La Carte: Paying Even More For What You Really Want
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 20, 2014
Rejoice! A la carte programming has finally arrived in a purely digit ...
- Analysts See CBS, HBO Moves As Powerful Shots Across Cable's Bow
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, October 17, 2014
Fence-sitting cord-cutters might finally rid themselves of one hyphenate, say analysts. Televisi ...
- HBO To Offer Streaming Video Service In 2015
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Finally moving into Netflix territory, HBO says it will offer a stand-alo ...
- Cartoon Network Prevails In Video-Privacy Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 16, 2014
The Cartoon Network doesn't violate Android users' privacy rights by transmitting t ...
- Nope, Sorry, You Should Still Shut Up And Love the Cable Bundle
Online Spin, Joe Marchese - Thursday, October 16, 2014
Everyone seems to be cheering yesterday's announcement by HBO CEO Richard Plepl ...
- Will Cable Companies Thwart New HBO, CBS Services With Data Caps?
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 16, 2014
Yesterday, HBO shook up the cable industry by announcing a new standalo ...
- HBO Planning Standalone Web Subscription Service
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, October 15, 2014
HBO plans to begin offering Web-only subscriptions sometime next year. Yes, “t ...
- Turner Ups Boomerang's Family Content
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Amid a lackluster growing kids TV marketplace, Turner Broadcasting's Boomerang network wi ...
- HBO Will Launch Standalone Online Service That Doesn't Include Cable Sub
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, October 15, 2014
HBO CEO Richard Plepler announced today at an investor presentation that H ...
- Broadcast Nets Forecast To Hit $3B In Q3 Ad Inventory, Cable $5B
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 13, 2014
Many networks increased their commercial advertising inventory in the third quarter ...
- Media Stocks Take Hit As Market Drops
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 13, 2014
The "hits" keep coming for big media companies -- unfortunately with rega ...