- NBC Owns Monday, CBS Distant Second
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Between "Heroes" and "Deal or No Deal," NBC is cementing its relationsh ...
- Fox's O.J. Simpson Show: If He Did It, Will Advertisers Buy It?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 15, 2006
So Fox is giving O.J. Simpson two hours at the end ...
- Verizon's FiOS Names First Ad Executive
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Verizon's FiOS has named its first senior advertising sales executive. Jason Malam ...
- Discovery Hit Hard In 3Q, Losing Nearly $77 Million
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Discovery Holding Co., the 50% owner of media and entertainment company Discove ...
- Viacom Plus: Minus CBS Assets
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Viacom Plus, the six-year-old cross-media platform selling division of CBS and Viaco ...
- Ratings Kick: NFL Rules Sunday, Beats ABC's 'Desperate'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 14, 2006
ABC's "Desperate Housewives" is back in the game, but it wasn't enou ...
- Should Actors Make Suggestions For Viewers?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 14, 2006
It's already incredibly hard to devise new TV channels with any originali ...
- TV Scatter Market Tightens, CBS Boosts NCAA Price Tag
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 13, 2006
Fourth-quarter scatter pricing has perked up for TV networks--and that bullish feeli ...
- Should WWE Wrestle Other Sports To The Ground?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 13, 2006
Put me in a half-nelson and body-slam me to a media pla ...
- Channel Lab To Launch TV Block, Will Reach Nearly 30 Million
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 10, 2006
Channel Lab, a new TV and media company, will initially help ...
- Disney Income More Than Doubles
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 10, 2006
Powered by strong box-office film results, growth in its amusement parks a ...
- Can Strong TV Election Ratings Set Goundwork For Political Dramas?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 10, 2006
Aaron Sorkin, take note: This season's TV election ratings are up 2 ...
- Democrats Win The House, Fox Wins With 'House'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 9, 2006
ABC was lead dancer during Tuesday night's election coverage. But as Democra ...
- Fox Boosts News Corp. Earnings
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 9, 2006
Fox is sitting pretty. Stronger fiscal first-quarter earnings at News Corp. ha ...
- New Prime-time Shows' Demographics Slightly Off
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 9, 2006
Some prime-time TV writers don't seem to have their TV business jarg ...
- TV Ad Panels Nixed At NATPE
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 8, 2006
For the first time in years, the upcoming National Association of Televisi ...
- ABC Wins Monday With Country Awards, NBC Forced Into Second
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 8, 2006
November sweeps tend to shake up early fall network trends. NBC h ...
- The Price Of Cowardice For TV Advertisers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 8, 2006
In an episode of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," Jordan McDeer ...
- NFL Boots NBC Into Sunday Victory, ABC Takes Second Place
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 7, 2006
NBC finally caught up to ABC on Sunday night, thanks to perha ...
- Comcast Makes Preemptive Deal For Fox Biz Channel
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Strangely, Comcast Corp. has agreed to carry the new business news cab ...
- Nets Retain Key Demo, Must-See TV Cited
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 6, 2006
In a digital age, broadcast TV networks have done a neat j ...
- Clash Of The Titans: ABC Wins First Day Of Sweeps, Fox Badly Defeated
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 6, 2006
The first day of the November Sweeps pushed both ABC and C ...
- Whose Network? Not Mine, Say Most Viewers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 6, 2006
MyNetworkTV, the wannabe broadcast network, isn't even a wannabe cable network. MyNetwork ...
- CBS Posts 3Q Results, Net Profit Down, Outdoor Up
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 3, 2006
CBS Corp. took it on the chin in its third-quarter earnings' result ...
- Should TV Execs Grunt More?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 3, 2006
Television executives seemingly don't grunt--but maybe they should. When things don't ...
- Time Warner Reports Solid 3Q Results, AOL News Mixed
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 2, 2006
Time Warner's financial situation is a slowly improving one--although not all analys ...
- ABC 'Dancing' On Tuesday, Fox Safe At Second
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 2, 2006
Fox's "House" continues its winning streak, and gave the network second pla ...
- Is Fox Spending Less On Marketing Its TV Shows?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 2, 2006
There has been much talk lately about spending less on TV sho ...
- 'Heroes' Delivers Monday To NBC, CBS Distant Second
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 1, 2006
NBC wants to solidify a hold on Monday night--now that its bof ...
- In TV Distribution Bout, It's A Draw
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 1, 2006
All TV distribution is good--and growing. No one wins the day. It ...