- '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 ...
- New TV News Math: Political Viewing A Key... Amid Trump Questions
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 7, 2023
With Tucker Carlson's exit now firmly in the rear-view mirror for F ...
- Domestic Box Office, Studios' TV Advertising See Gains, With Higher Engagement
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Movie studios are spending much more on national TV advertising -- a ...
- New TV Roadmap: When You're Lost, Some Default To... A Broadcast Network!?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, July 6, 2023
This weekend, I was not home and didn't know where the To ...
- All Live TV News On Streaming? I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 5, 2023
If Warner Bros. Discovery puts all live CNN on streamer Max a ...
- 200 Nexstar TV Stations Off DirecTV Due To Carriage Fee Dispute
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 3, 2023
Nexstar says this affects more than 10 million subscribers, including Nexstar-affiliated netwo ...
- RSNs: Going Local -- Under A National TV/Video Roof?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 3, 2023
In sports TV, as well as all media business, there are hav ...
- CTV, Streamer Ads See 20% Slowdown For The First Half Of 2023
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, June 23, 2023
A slowdown in streaming platform advertising has amounted to a 20% dr ...
- Cable TV Viewership: More Viewing Declines In May, Streamers Stronger: Nielsen
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 22, 2023
Overall cable TV viewing continues to decline -- down 14% in t ...
- FTC Sues Amazon For Its 'Manipulative' Prime: What About Prime Video?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 22, 2023
You want to get Amazon Prime Video -- but not all Amazon ...
- U.S. JIC Launches 'Scoring Rubric,' Examines Third-Party Data Submissions
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 22, 2023
In order to grade third-party data providers, the U.S. Joint Industry Committ ...
- Back To The Future: Will WBD Really Sell A Popular HBO Show To Netflix?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 22, 2023
Is it an HBO shocker that it might be selling TV sho ...