- NBCU Revives NBC Sports Network With YouTube TV, Xfinity Deals
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 2, 2025
The network will feature Big Ten Conference college athletics, NBA games (fr ...
- YouTube TV: Going Beyond Just Price Hikes
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 3, 2025
YouTube TV wants a big streaming piece of the pie from NB ...
- 4 Weeks Down: NFL Viewing +11%, Ad Sales Flat
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 2, 2025
NBC's "Sunday Night Football" - including the "NFL Kickoff" game - ...
- Where Are The New Ideas For Live Non-Sports Shows?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 2, 2025
Financial issues aside for these programs, the positive is that from ...
- Video Game Ads - And 'Interrupting' - On The Rise
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 1, 2025
A new Bain & Co. report finds 65% of gamers say "a ...
- Content-Based 'Contextual' Ads Score Low Vs. Audience Targeting: Survey
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 1, 2025
"Marketers, brands, agencies have evolved their thinking about CTV as a pa ...
- AI-Generated Actors And The Future Of Creative Talent
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 1, 2025
"Tilly Norwood is not an actor. It has no life experience ...
- MLB Regular Season: Ad Spend Stagnates On Flat Viewing
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Total viewer impressions from all TV partners grew year-over-year - up 1 ...
- Amazon, FanDuel Team For 'NBA On Prime' Sponsorship
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 30, 2025
The 'NBA on Prime" sponsorship deal includes new bet tracking and 'Od ...
- Station Groups And Kimmel: Future Network Content Issues?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 30, 2025
"[This] should rightly cause consumers to expect that content will be mo ...
- Comcast's Cavanagh Named Co-CEO, Joins Roberts
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 29, 2025
Cavanagh, who will ascend to the position in January, has been preside ...
- Fighting Back On Streaming: Live, Legacy Pricing Math Goes Deep
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 29, 2025
"NBCUniversal is asking us to pay more than what they charge consume ...
- NFL TV Partners' Rights Fees Expected To Rise By $8B Per Year: Analyst
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 25, 2025
The process could ramp up its annual rights fees revenues from fi ...
- Paramount-WBD Merger: Adding A TikTok Side Benefit?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 26, 2025
Should we be worried about CBS News being combined with CNN? N ...
- NFL 'Option' For Networks, Streamers: Pass, Throw Or Run?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 25, 2025
Option deal points could be triggered as early as next year. T ...
- Cable Networks To Average 24M Subs By 2029: S&P
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Research shows that among 190 cable TV networks analyzed, 36 had ...
- Kimmel Returns, YouTube Spikes
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Early results on YouTube show nearly 10.5 million views for Kimmel's returni ...
- 'Kimmel' Soars To 6.3M Viewers, Tripling Show's Average
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Viewing for the return of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Tuesday was up three-and-a-ha ...
- Shut Down ABC Network, Shift To Streaming?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Needham & Company recommends Walt Disney just accelerate where the world see ...
- As Streaming Evolves, Will 'Usage' Pricing Become The Preferred Option?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Seventy percent of U.S. and U.K. consumers in a new survey sa ...
- Disney, Fox See August Football Viewing Hikes
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Disney grew 2% to a 9.5% total day viewing share of a ...
- Late Night TV Finance - Move Everything To Streaming?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 23, 2025
There has been much discussion of late-night talk shows moving to digit ...
- Netflix Strikes Global AB InBev Ad Deal
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 22, 2025
The deal will give AB InBev - and its major beer bran ...
- Kimmel Returns To ABC Amid 'Thoughtful Conversations' At Disney
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 22, 2025
"It is a decision we made because we felt some of t ...
- Beyond Kimmel For TV Station Owners: What's Next?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 22, 2025
TV station groups are pursuing other businesses for growth - budding nation ...
- Disney Boycott Petition Gains Momentum, 50K+ Signatures So Far
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 19, 2025
There have been 51,520 verified signatures for a petition asking people ...
- TV, Live Comedy Works With Better 'Accuracy' - How Do We Know?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 19, 2025
In 2015, Jerry Seinfeld said he no longer wanted to perform ...
- Protests Disrupt Pro Cycling: Brand, Advertiser Concerns
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 18, 2025
TV viewers witnessed thousands of protesters jamming the roads during the la ...
- Cable Net Ad Plunge: Falls 6%
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Cable TV networks witnessed a 5.9% decline in 2024 to $20.15 billi ...
- New ESPN, 'Fox One' Streamers Sign 1M Subs In First 10 Days
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 17, 2025
In its analysis, Antenna says "this new era is off to ...