- Scatter Chatter: Nets Say Demand Builds As New Season Approaches
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 16, 2005
Just days before the official start of the new season, network advertisi ...
- Microsoft's Deal For AOL Could Have Ripple Effects For MSNBC
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 16, 2005
With a possible Microsoft/Time Warner deal in the works, MSNBC might so ...
- ESPN Goes Extra Innings, Adds Games To New Baseball Deal
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 15, 2005
Although it didn't pursue the weakening sports league NHL, ESPN wasn't abo ...
- Agency: You Watch More Commercials Than You Think
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 15, 2005
Long before DVR's commercial-skipping technology started rearing its ugly head, consumers we ...
- Reality TV Show Ideas Should Be Locked Up... No, Wait! That's Coming
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 15, 2005
Reality show concepts have seemingly been exhausted--diva fights, eating insects, losing weigh ...
- Few Good Comedies, But TV Viewers Are Laughing More Than Ever
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Worried about the low quality of comedy on TV? Magna Global U ...
- Time Warner: Down The Road Of Media Un-Consolidation, Don't Pick Up Hitchhikers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Time Warner doesn't really believe the industry's current refrain--that media consolidation ...
- Icahn Looks To Elect His Own Time Warner Board Members
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Financier Carl Icahn may not be getting any closer to acquiring mo ...
- NASCAR Knows Its Product Placement
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 13, 2005
What's one of the oldest continuing product placement activities on TV, whe ...
- Pre-Network Season Starts With Some Conventional Trends
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 12, 2005
Although the official start to the new fall network season is t ...
- Indecency: Is Media Consolidation The Reason, Or Is It Heightened Creative Sensibilities?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 12, 2005
A study by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Creative Voices in Med ...
- Consensus: Spot TV Ad Spending To Rise In '06, Not By Much
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 9, 2005
A cautious Television Bureau of Advertising is estimating that 2006--a political a ...
- Hurricane TV Benefits: A Place For Contributions And Strong Opinions
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 9, 2005
No longer a truly live TV benefit, this Friday's "Shelter From T ...
- Tempest In A TV Spot: Buyers Skittish Over ABC 'Invasion'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 8, 2005
Some advertising executives are nervous about airing commercials in a new A ...
- Veteran TV Buying Executive Bruce Jay Cohen Goes To Mediaedge:cia
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 8, 2005
Veteran TV media buying executive Bruce Jay Cohen has returned to t ...
- Cable Wants To Put Broadcasters Into A One-Channel Digital Place
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 8, 2005
Poor cable industry. Now it is moaning that carrying all those propos ...
- Magna: DVRs Will Be More Like Pay TV--Not Much Else
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Digital video recorders might not take over the TV universe after al ...
- The PTC Has A Beef With Paris Hilton's Sexy Ad
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 7, 2005
The Parents Television Council (PTC) should look at the immoral victories ...
- Pro Bono TV Concerts Will Cost Nets Up To $15 Million In Ad Time
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 6, 2005
A number of broadcast and cable hurricane benefit efforts will cost ...
- Tribune And The WB: Looking For Old-World Media Charm
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Broadcast television, newspapers, and middle-aged demographics don't sound like ingredients for ...
- NBC Capitalizes On Katrina, Signs Bank, Other Talent For Benefit Concert
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 2, 2005
NBC Universal has signed up Capital One as the exclusive underwriter f ...
- Madison Avenue, Nielsen Find Older Folks Hang Around, Syndication Fares Better
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 2, 2005
A new advertising study comparing TV program ratings versus TV commercial ratin ...
- Sensitive in Difficult Times
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 2, 2005
In the coming weeks, a number of broadcast and cable networks wi ...
- After The Storm: Media Rush To Aid Katrina Victims, Big TV Benefits Planned
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 1, 2005
After a flurry of activity from broadcast and cable networks yesterday, t ...
- Turner Sports, Orbitz Strike Football, PGA Deals
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 1, 2005
Turner Sports and Orbitz have struck an advertising deal for TBS' colle ...
- Orbitz To Sponsor Football, Golf On TBS
Online Media Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 1, 2005
Turner Sports and online travel agency Orbitz have struck an advertising de ...
- Risky Humor, Medicine for Sitcom Success
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 1, 2005
To paraphrase former NBC executive Warren Littlefield: The things that scare ...
- Contact: Logo On Course
Media Magazine, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 23, 2005
Now several months old, Logo, MTV's gay channel that launched in Jun ...