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• Amazon Explores Buying Fox's Regional Sports Networks in Television News Daily on 11/20/2018
  

  CNBC reports Amazon is looking to make a bid on those networks, valued to be worth around $22.4 billion. Amazon currently streams NFL "Thursday Night Football" games.

• Dow Drops 1,000 Points, Media Stocks Hard Hit in Television News Daily on 11/20/2018
  

  The media-tech heavy Nasdaq was down 2.5%, and the S&P 500 lost 2%. The big media losers were Charter Communications, Dish Network, Discovery, AMC Networks and CBS.

• TV Production Outlays Climb To $100 Billion in TV Watch on 11/20/2018
  

  Why spend so much money on original premium content? To fuel new digital platforms -- in particular, OTT app-platforms -- to gain some direct-to-consumer independence from third-party pay TV network distributors.

• October TV Usage Virtually Flat in Television News Daily on 11/19/2018
  

  Total TV usage was down 0.9% in October, Pivotal Research says. Adding in all internet-connected viewing brings year-over-year trends closer to flat figures if related data are included in standard measures of viewership.

• NBCU Ups Stimmel To EVP, Lifestyle And Hispanic Ad Sales in Television News Daily on 11/19/2018
  

  Stimmel, who was senior vice president, lifestyle ad sales, reports to Laura Molen, who was promoted to president, ad sales and partnerships of NBCUniversal.

• The New Virtual Pay TV Plan: Do It Yourself in TV Watch on 11/19/2018
  

  AT&T says the next generation of home technology for DirecTV Now, its internet-delivered live, linear TV service, will come in a self-serve box.

• Burke Named As President, ABC Entertainment in Television News Daily on 11/16/2018
  

  Channing Dungey stepped down as president, ABC Entertainment, to be replaced by ABC Freeform programming exec Karey Burke, who will have the same title.

• Viacom Records U.S. Ad Declines, Paramount Pictures Revenues Soar in Television News Daily on 11/16/2018
  

  Viacom's fiscal fourth-quarter results showed a steeper drop in U.S. ad sales -- down 4.3% -- versus the preceding quarter's 3.5% fall.

• Connected TV-OTT Ad Fraud Is Rising in Television News Daily on 11/16/2018
  

  To generate fraudulent impressions, the botnet spoofs real publishers' URLs, sending false signals to ad servers that the impressions came from a CTV device.

• TV Shifts: Is Disney The Only Challenger To Netflix? in TV Watch on 11/16/2018
  

  Consumers who want films and TV series look to the digital media world, which offers ample selections. Netflix is now a necessary piece of that TV ecosystem.

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• Facebook Mulls Big TV Money With Facebook Stories by Wayne Friedman (TV Watch on 09/07/2018)
  

  Yes.

• Shorter TV Spots Rising On Linear TV by Wayne Friedman (Television News Daily on 07/13/2018)
  

  John, this is what I got so far:https://thearf.org/category/articles/6-second-ads-who-how-when-to-use/https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/320678/less-really-is-more-arf-finds-six-second-ads-get.html

• Number Of TV Sets Decline, Not Screens by Wayne Friedman (TV Watch on 08/02/2017)
  

  Nielsen says the average number of hours per week U.S. households spent watching linear live television and DVR programming on TV sets -- assuming multiple set usage -- declined to 56.88 last year from 60.07 in 2013. 

• O'Reilly's Fox Departure May Not Impact Financial Bottom Line by Wayne Friedman (TV Watch on 04/20/2017)
  

  A SNL Kagan study released in December 2016 projected affiliate revenues for just the Fox News Channel to total $1,546.3 billion — an average of $1.41 per subscriber per month.

• Welcome To The Cross-Platform Upfront -- It's Not Your Father's Kids Marketplace by Wayne Friedman (MediaPost Weekend on 03/11/2017)
  

  Disney Channel operates commercial-free though it sells advertising sponsorships. Disney XD is a regular advertising-supported network, with commercials. Analysts say overall kids 2-11 gross rating points have declined on ad-supported networks.

• Fox Television Network, Fox News Highest In Commercial Clutter by Wayne Friedman (Television News Daily on 05/20/2016)
  

  iSpot.tv says this is just for primetime. Commercial data here for all networks -- broadcast and cable -- include all national and local commercial advertising.

• Sobering Wall Street Media Picture: Cord-Cutting Concerns Come To Market by Wayne Friedman (TV Watch on 08/06/2015)
  

  Ed, you need to read more MediaPost. Perhaps you got that 13.8 million number in this story:http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/255548/dish-tv-subscribers-dip-revs-rise.html?edition=85047

• Netflix Viewing Rises, Impacts Trad TV Trends by Wayne Friedman (MediaDailyNews on 04/23/2015)
  

  The overall chart was titled: "Netflix consumption as a percentage of total traditional viewing."The line item of 129.5 billion hours was labelled as Total Linear TV Viewing. 

• 'TV Everywhere' Isn't Going Anywhere, Study Finds Most Viewers Still In The Dark by Wayne Friedman (MediaPost Weekend on 01/03/2014)
  

  This from Ramp: "The nuance in the numbers comes from the slight difference in the way we asked the questions: TV Everywhere is predicated on a subscription-based experience of logging into a cable provider’s app or web site to view content. In our view, this low response highlights that the term TV Everywhere is still very new to the market; consumers aren’t aware of it. In the third question, we asked about viewing content via an app or a web site, and as we expected, we got a higher response from folks here – still low generally speaking, but removing the branded term seemed to help folks relate to the concept.

• CBS Falling Back To TV's Promo Future by Wayne Friedman (TV Watch on 06/18/2013)
  

  CBS must be doing something right. It won the coveted 18-49 primetime crown this past season -- the first time in a long time -- as well as maintaining its overall primetime leadership among all viewers.

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