- Like Two Peas In An iPod: Could A Disney/Pixar Deal Be Next?
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 13, 2005
Apple Computer's new video-enabled iPod and its content deal with Disney-ABC televisi ...
- ABC, iTunes Deal May Break A Few Distribution Windows
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 13, 2005
In this new age of video content, the financial model for distributi ...
- Hard Times For The 'Hard Eight:' Kids' TV Ad Market Faces Cuts In DVD, Food
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 12, 2005
The 2005 fourth-quarter TV kids' TV advertising market--which still commands most ...
- E! Goes From TV Tube To Silver Screen, Comcast Net Has A Screen Vision
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Mainstream media are discovering cinema. A day after the New York Tim ...
- New FCC Rules Hamper Kids' TV Networks
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Kids' TV networks are looking at some real financial damage should propos ...
- ABC Maintains Lead, Fox Remains A Distant Second
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Despite the advent of possible big-rated sports programming from Fox, ABC continu ...
- Where Have All The Young Men Gone?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 11, 2005
This past summer young men saw 24 percent fewer films than ...
- Nissan, Toyota Rev Up Branded Content
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 10, 2005
Nissan USA's deal with ABC's "Desperate Housewives" goes far behind its origin ...
- Aspirational Reality Leads The Pack
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 10, 2005
With ratings down for many of its top-rated shows, reality TV isn ...
- ESPN Restructures Staff For All Its Businesses
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 7, 2005
Walt Disney's ESPN and ABC Sports divisions completed radical reorganization, making t ...
- Fox Stations Raid Viacom's Swanson
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 7, 2005
Just one day after Viacom's SEC filing detailing its split into t ...
- DirecTV: Leaving TiVo And Perhaps Some Customers Behind
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 7, 2005
Dear DirecTV: I hear you are abandoning TiVo and
starti ... - King World To Launch Home Arts Show Featuring Food Network's Rachael Ray
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 6, 2005
King World Productions, looking to capitalize on a seemingly current home-arts the ...
- Campaign Reform Group Looks To Broadcasters To Subsidize Political Campaigns
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 6, 2005
As if broadcast stations didn't have enough to worry about, now ...
- Reality TV Takes Jobs From Actors--But Don't Blame Networks
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 6, 2005
Reality TV is now taking jobs away from union actors--but casting sti ...
- Interactive TV Poised To Spark Cable Revenue Boom
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 5, 2005
When more than half of U.S. TV households have digital set t ...
- Comcast Offers Broadband Subs Free NHL Games
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Comcast Corp. will make an unprecedented free offering to its 7.7 milli ...
- U2 Does TV Marketing; The Doors Don't
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Rock bands now skillfully use marketing, especially on TV, for self-promotion. Th ...
- NBC's Weak Upfront Stalls Winter Olympics Ad Sales
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 4, 2005
NBC's poor upfront advertising market is now having a ripple effect ...
- Walt Disney Creates New Digital Media Position
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Walt Disney Co. has named Albert Cheng to the new position ...
- ABC Extends "Kimmel," with Help from "Nightline"
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 4, 2005
ABC has given "Jimmy Kimmel Live" another season, extending the show throu ...
- GAO: Payments For 'Fake' TV Newscasts Are Illegal
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 3, 2005
When it comes to promoting the Bush Administration's own political agendas, marketi ...
- NBC Swaps Stewart's 'Apprentice,' 'E-Ring' Time Slots
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 3, 2005
Two weeks into the season, NBC has cried uncle. It finally ma ...
- From the Networks Dugout: No Batter! No Batter! No Batter!
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 3, 2005
So far this TV network season, everything is back to normal. Netwo ...