- NBC Finishes Upfront 'Roughly In Line' With Last Year
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 20, 2023
Amid an uncertain TV ad marketplace, including disruptive strikes, NBCU has finish ...
- More Signs Of Streaming Cutbacks - Time To 'Super Bundle'?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 21, 2023
Consumers keep pushing to make streaming cutbacks. But streaming platform owners m ...
- Streamers' Ad Pods Duration Grows, As Frequency Issues Remain
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Streaming platform advertising may increasingly see a glut. Nearly 35% of streami ...
- Netflix's Global Subs Soar - 5.9M More In Q2, Revenue Growth Weak
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 19, 2023
New global subscribers for Netflix rocketed past estimates, driven by paid-sharing effor ...
- Full ESPN As A Streamer For $30 A Month - Take A Big Swing
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 20, 2023
Imagine ESPN as a stand-alone streaming app. Then consider the price ta ...
- Streaming TV Rises To Record 38% Share, Broadcast Plummets: Nielsen
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 18, 2023
In June, TV-video streaming usage for viewers ages two and up climb ...
- Shark Week Is Back - New Advertisers Include Budweiser, Domino's, Chili's, Mountain Dew
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 18, 2023
"Shark Week" will air from July 23-29 on Discovery Channel, and ...
- Peacock Raises Prices For The First Time Since 2020 Launch
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Peacock is raising its prices for all its options. The Peacock Premi ...
- 'Broadcast Model' For Premium Streamers Returns -- In Certain Global Markets?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 19, 2023
LightShed Partners analyst Richard Greenfield wonders about a marketplace moving more towa ...
- First-Half 2023 TV Impressions Up 5%, Ad Spend Down 7%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 17, 2023
For "first-airings" on linear TV, excluding regional sports networks, CBS took t ...
- Just A 50% Ad Revenue Hit? Versus Twitter, Linear TV Looks Pretty Good
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Imagine if a TV network witnessed a 50% ad revenue drop aft ...
- 'Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning': Good, Not Great Box-Office Mission
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Sunday, July 16, 2023
The latest film in the "Mission: Impossible" series pulled in a mode ...
- Write This, Act Out: Selling The Upfront Amid Strikes, Weaker Projections
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 17, 2023
Amid the disruption of actors' strikes on top of writers' strikes, upfro ...
- CW Doubles Down On Live Sports, Adds College Basketball And Football
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 13, 2023
The young-skewing, mostly scripted entertainment broadcast network, will air some 50 li ...
- Strike Upside: Top Unscripted Shows Have Been Trending Upward
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 14, 2023
Ad impressions for last season's top ten unscripted prime-time network TV sho ...
- Using Your Remote To Buy The Shirt Off This Guy's Back
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 14, 2023
As part of its next stage of commerce development, Roku has stru ...
- Disney's Iger Mulls Linear TV Networks Sale
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 13, 2023
Iger told CNBC that the networks, which include the likes of AB ...
- Disney Board Extends Iger As CEO Through 2026, Search For Successor Continues
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 13, 2023
Iger's main focus since returning late last year has been to redu ...
- Pique TV
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 13, 2023
After more than a decade of "Peak TV," the disruption of origin ...
- Roku Expands FreeWheel Deal, Enables Access To More Ad Inventory
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The deal enables advertisers to target audiences and measure campaigns through Roku ...
- Fox's Strike-Resilient Lineup: Non-Scripted, Animated Shows Will Start New Season
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Even as the TV writers' strike draws out, Fox Tuesday provided t ...
- New NBA Rights Deals: Is Streaming A Slam Dunk?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 12, 2023
With digital-first media companies in the driver's seat, the next wave ...
- Charter Debuts 'Flexible' Sports Services, Regional Networks
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 10, 2023
Looking to kickstart a weak U.S. regional sports networks business, Charter Communicatio ...
- All The Sports No Longer Fit For Print? How About TV?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 11, 2023
What The New York Times' decision to get out of sports mea ...
- Summer Broadcast Viewing Down 13%, 'America's Got Talent' Leads
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 7, 2023
"America's Got Talent" remains the most-watched broadcast TV prime-time show this summ ...
- 'Insidious: The Red Door' Opens With $32.7M On $4.5M In TV Ad Spend
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Sunday, July 9, 2023
The film, the fifth in the "Insidious" franchise, beat the second we ...
- Analysts Forecast 10% Drop In Hulu Ad Spending, Content Cutbacks Cited
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 10, 2023
The new MoffettNathanson analysis projects Hulu's ad business will rebound 5% ...
- TV Consumers Don't Know Their Streaming Spend, A Platform's Brand - Should We Care?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 10, 2023
Thirty-four percent of Americans don't know how much they spend overall p ...
- Consumers Want More Personalized, Interactive Video From Brands, Study Finds
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 6, 2023
Over 80% of consumers want more video from brands in their messagi ...
- NBCU Restructures, Movie Exec Donna Langley Ascends
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 6, 2023
NBCU is restructuring its content into four main units with Donna Langl ...
