- Cable Costs Will Keep Rising, ESPN To Double By 2009
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 31, 2005
Not surprisingly, top cable networks have dramatically increased programming costs over t ...
- House TV Digital Bill Has $5 Billion Ad Price Tag
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 31, 2005
Tough-minded Congress officials are making it tough on TV stations concerning t ...
- Fox Strikes Out With Lowest Ratings On Record For A World Series
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 28, 2005
Fox's lowest ratings on record for a World Series brought other misery--t ...
- NBC Revamps On-Air Look, Tones Down Promos
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 28, 2005
The NBC Agency--the network's in-house marketing agency--has turned down the volume, redesigni ...
- Verizon's FiOS Quandary
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 28, 2005
With all the complaints U.S. customers have made against cable company fe ...
- CBS Sports' Sean McManus Named President Of CBS News
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 27, 2005
CBS is finally taking care of its flagging CBS News division, replaci ...
- Network Execs: Sometimes Job "Sucks"
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 27, 2005
Two recurring themes for network programming executives: They'd rather stay out ...
- Congress Continues Debate Over Digital TV Bills
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Criticism of digital TV House and Senate bills continues as elected officia ...
- Cablevision Stock Plummets After Pullback On
Privatization Plans
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Cablevision Systems has taken back its plan to go private--and for tha ...
- Will Future TV shows Be Canceled In Mid-sentence?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 26, 2005
You may wonder if ESPN2's "Cold Pizza" ran a little too co ...
- NBC Universal, Time Warner Strike Programming Carriage Deal
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 25, 2005
NBC Universal has struck a unique programming carriage agreement with Time Warn ...
- Rainbow Media Seeks VOD Pot Of Gold With Indie Films
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 25, 2005
For the big picture of the video-on-demand business, Rainbow Media Holdings ...
- Networks Need More To Meet Q4 Sales Goals
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 24, 2005
TV networks have bigger goals in the fourth quarter this year th ...
- Video on Demand: Still Looking For Must-Watch Video
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 24, 2005
Comcast and Fox Broadcasting are moving closer, agreeing to let Fox's n ...
- Senate Passes VNR Bill, Requires Disclosure
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 21, 2005
In what may be a harbinger of things to come for oth ...
- Kagan Research: A Good Year For TV Stations
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 21, 2005
The TV station advertising market may be suffering this year--but that hasn ...
- Echostar, OLN Fight Over NHL Package
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 21, 2005
It's just what we need right now--a good old-fashioned cable programmer-satellite distribut ...
- Carat Buys More Than :60, Arranges '60 Minutes' Exclusive For Philips
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 20, 2005
By selling an entire upcoming "60 Minutes" show to Royal Philips Electroni ...
- 'Martha' On The Rebound, Now Her Daytime Series Is Showing Life
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 20, 2005
After slipping since its launch a couple of weeks ago, NBC Televisi ...
- "Rock Star: INXS" Delivers Low Ratings But High Music Sales
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 20, 2005
There's good news for broadcast TV music shows with so-so ratings: th ...
- ANA To FCC: No Kidding, We're Suing
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 19, 2005
The Association of National Advertisers has taken a more aggressive position again ...
- Prime Time Update: ABC Leads, CBS Steady, NBC Prays 'Earl' Is A Pearl
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Despite the headlines of the ups (ABC) and downs (NBC) of specif ...
- McCain's Digital Prescription: Bad Medicine?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Buy some digital TV equipment and save the world? Maybe. In ...
- CBS.com Has Talent Spin Blogging Marketing Support
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 18, 2005
CBS.com will have its stars, writers, and producers do some extra marketi ...
- Going Digital In 2009 Means Chaos For TV Customers, Research Groups Say
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Research companies Points North Group and Horowitz Associates warn that the Feder ...
- Will Broadcast Networks Give Up Some Prime-Time Schedules?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Broadcast networks have some choices to make money in this new med ...
- Surge In Young Female Viewing: Is It Disaster Coverage, or Scripted Shows?
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 17, 2005
Why are young women watching much more TV this season? For t ...
- iTVX Gets In The Game--Literally--Signs On First In-Game Client
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 17, 2005
IGA Partners, the in-game advertising network of video games, has signed ...
- Newspapers Take Lesson From TV On Film Ads
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 17, 2005
Newspapers are acting more like television networks when it comes to selli ...
- Tribune Bottom Line Suffers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 14, 2005
Media companies should be able to fend off a slight downturn ...