- Disney's Q2 Linear Ads Sink, Disney+/Hulu Merging
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 6, 2025
The exception was ESPN -- and all its sports programming -- whi ...
- Samsung Wants A Piece Of Your Multitasking TV - Or Mobile? - Downtime
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Samsung started this up a year ago with games like "The Si ...
- Fox Ad Spend Rises 7% For Fiscal Quarter, 28% For Full Year
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Fox Corp. also announced the launch of its major streaming platform "F ...
- ESPN Strikes $3B NFL Media Ownership Deal
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 6, 2025
ESPN will own and operate the NFL Network -- its linear ...
- Jumping The Cable TV Deal Line: ESPN's Equity Deal With The NFL?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 5, 2025
The league would get a 10% minority equity ownership in ESPN, whi ...
- 'Four' Second Week Not-So-Fantastic
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Sunday, August 3, 2025
"Fantastic" had a box-office drop of nearly 70% from its first-week $1 ...
- Skydance Media Announces Paramount Global Senior Executive Team
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 4, 2025
The company will be divided into three businesses: studios, D2C and ...
- Legacy Headache: Big Tech Not Buying Linear TV Networks Anytime Soon
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 4, 2025
Google, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon are not in the hu ...
- Paramount Labels Upfront 'Consistent,' Says Streaming Represented 30%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 1, 2025
During its Q2 earnings phone call with analysts, the company said spor ...
- DirecTV Offers Customers ESPN 'Unlimited' At No Additional Cost
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 1, 2025
The ESPN unlimited plan includes the new ESPN D2C platform launching th ...
- 'Happy Gilmore 2': More Happiness For Streaming - And Netflix
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 1, 2025
What does Netflix's best viewing result ever for original movie "Happy Gilmo ...
- NBCU Q2 Ad Revenue -7%, Peacock +20%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 31, 2025
Peacock posted a 20% increase in overall revenue to $1.2 billion, b ...
- New Head-Spinning Media Spinoff Math: Selling Network-Owned Stations?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 31, 2025
Selling potentially network-owned TV stations - perhaps CBS-owned-and-operated outlets? Sounds crazy. ...
- Streaming, Linear Battle For Program Stardom - What's Missing?
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 30, 2025
There is a mixed picture for broadcast-originated original shows that have ...
- Streaming Ad Sales Grow 22% In Q2, Upfront Sees Spikes
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Cable TV took the brunt of the rise in streaming - wi ...
- Still Beating Video - After The Expected Demise Of Cable?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 30, 2025
"We are beginning to see the early impact of Charter's bundled streami ...
- Total Ad-Supported Viewing Up 2% In Q2: Nielsen
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Ad-supported streaming grew 7% by 2.9 share points to 45.3% share, whi ...
- Disney Upfront: Big Gains In Streaming, Sports
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Streaming accounted for 40% of total upfront volume for Disney. The compa ...
- NBCU Starting A Sports Network - After Axing One 4 Years Ago?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Comcast/NBCU is considering starting up a sports network as a supplemental platfo ...
- 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' Takes Strides Into Summer With $118M Opening
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Sunday, July 27, 2025
Domestic theatrical revenue is up 12.4% year-to-date vs. a year ago ...
- Warner Bros. Discovery Names Post-Split Companies, Senior Execs
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 28, 2025
Warner Bros. will house its studios and streaming businesses including Warner Bro ...
- Should Station Ownership Limits Continue? Newsmax Thinks So
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 28, 2025
Newsmax wants to keep around a decades-old restriction that seems to f ...
- Another OS On The Way: Is There Room?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 25, 2025
Roku and Amazon Fire TV are major players - now with the ...
- Linear Retains 86% Share Of Ad Impressions Even As Streaming Grows
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 24, 2025
Estimates from iSpot.TV showed linear TV growing 3.3% in overall ad spe ...
- Paramount-Skydance $8B Deal Gets FCC Approval
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 24, 2025
Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit with Preside ...
- Will More Legacy Media Be Hit By 'Trump Transaction Tax'?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 24, 2025
With settlements by Paramount and Disney resulting from Trump lawsuits, New Stre ...
- Linear's Ad-Supported Adult Viewing Share Still Near 70%
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 23, 2025
The non-profit trade association for the ad-supported TV industry says June's streami ...
- Netflix Viewing Per Day Slips, Total U.S. Viewing Up 2%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Netflix average subscriber viewing declined 6% to 1.4 hours per day ...
- TV Viewer Petition: Keeping The 'Late Show' Around?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Over 40,000 people have now signed on to petition to encourage C ...
- The Dog Days Of Legacy TV: Streamers Accelerate Summer Share
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Netflix grew 8.3% share in June 2024 - a 13.5% hike fr ...