- Power to the People
Media Magazine, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, May 25, 2006
User-generated content is not new to TV networks: TV programming visionary Brand ...
- Cable Rising, Poised For Even More Growth
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Although there has been mounting excitement over digital platforms in recent month ...
- CBS Looks To Feed Showtime And Starve Food Network
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Les Moonves thinks I can do without the Food Network. He's de ...
- Sirius Gets A Stern Warning, Pays Settlement Too
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 30, 2006
CBS Radio has settled its lawsuit with radio personality Howard Stern, h ...
- Bending The FCC Rules: Seems Like Old Times
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 30, 2006
When it comes to the Federal Communications Commission, educating one's business sen ...
- Indecency Claims Target Last Gasp Of True Broadcasters
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 29, 2006
Check for indecency in indecency news story headlines. "FCC Smut Complaints Sextup ...
- Few Marketers Registering Budgets Yet With Networks
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman, David Goetzl - Friday, May 26, 2006
Upfront negotiations aren't at a crawl. They haven't even made it th ...
- Idolized Fox Wins The Season; ABC Found, Not Lost, Comes In Second
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 26, 2006
For the TV season, the ratings race is all over--including the shouti ...
- 'The Apprentice' Cuts Branded Entertainment Price
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman, David Goetzl - Friday, May 26, 2006
In a further sign that "The Apprentice" has lost luster as ...
- Video News Releases Could Be Bad For Families As Well
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 26, 2006
Why isn't TV news a family issue for TV pressure groups? ...
- TV Station Advertising Up In '06, But '04 Was Better
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, May 25, 2006
Although political and Olympic advertising in 2006 will boost local station revenu ...
- Fox Is No. 1--And Spreads The Wealth
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, May 25, 2006
Fox's "American Idol" is doing so well as the No. 1 sh ...
- CBS Looks To Sell Small-Market Radio Stations
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 24, 2006
For CBS there will be more selling, but perhaps very little buyin ...
- TV Upfront Waits On One Day, Thursday
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Forget about DVR-included viewing. The network advertising upfront could get more complicat ...
- Studios Set A Slo-Mo Pace, Hit Pause On DVR Playback
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 23, 2006
In a sign of how 2006-07 network upfront ad sales may pac ...
- TV Characters As Action Figures
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 23, 2006
TV comedy stars may not be made into toy action figures, sin ...
- Upfronts Underwhelm: Buyers See Little Pizzazz, No Recognizable Hits
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 22, 2006
In the new age of digital platform TV upfronts, finding a netwo ...
- NFL Looks For Big Price Hike Versus A Year Ago
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 22, 2006
The NFL TV advertising market is active, and sellers are getting pri ...
- Broadcast Network Schedules Won't Turn Yellow This Year
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 22, 2006
Yellow. Yellow. Where did all the yellow go for ABC? To t ...
- Cablevision, FX Start Up VOD Promo Channel
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 19, 2006
They used to be called 'barker' channels in cable TV. Now Cablevisi ...
- CW Takes Best Of WB, UPN
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 19, 2006
The new CW logo was bathed in all kinds of green color-- ...
- The Writers Guild Names Names--For Product Placement
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 19, 2006
Writers aren't in it for the money when it comes to mon ...
- Remanded Entertainment: TV Writers Ask To Be Part Of Product Placement Talks
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, May 18, 2006
It's not about money, TV writers say, in their concerns over newfangl ...
- CBS Prime-Time Schedule Changes Little
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, May 18, 2006
For next season, CBS will pledge more consistency, only offering up fo ...
- CBS, Looking To Stand Tall, Adds Four New Shows
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, May 18, 2006
"There goes four tall gentiles," said Les Moonves, chairman of CBS Cor ...
- ABC Moves 'Grey's Anatomy,' Challenges Thursday Night Competition
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 17, 2006
ABC wasn't thinking about any gray areas concerning this upfront. To t ...
- Conventional Wisdom, Or The CW: Young TV Viewers Can't Name All The The Broadcast Networks
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 17, 2006
What are those 12- to 34-year-olds doing between 6 p.m. and ...
- Johnson & Johnson Sits Out The Upfront Game
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Big TV advertiser Johnson & Johnson will be sitting out of t ...
- J&J Tells The World: Let's Take An Upfront Break--For A Few Months
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 16, 2006
What exactly is Johnson & Johnson's press strategy for this TV upfron ...
- Bill Gates' Cascade Looks To Compete With Televisa In Bid For Univision
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 15, 2006
A day after it was revealed that a Grupo Televisa-led group ...