- Traditional TV Networks Face Lure Of User-Generated Content
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 11, 2006
The lottery over big user-generated Web sites now has a simple mathematic ...
- Where The Boys Are: Viacom's MTVN Entertainment Will Target Male Viewers
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, December 8, 2006
Viacom is serious about business expansion. To make up for slower grow ...
- CBS Is 'King' Wednesday, CW Scores Best Numbers With 'Model'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, December 8, 2006
It's good strategy for a non-sweeps period: When everyone is in rerun ...
- Better Bribes To Influence Marketing And Media Decisions?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, December 8, 2006
The dramatic ouster of Julie Roehm this week after a short sti ...
- Fox Scores With Reruns Tuesday Night
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 7, 2006
TV viewers--especially men--are seemingly less interested in women in lingerie, according ...
- Digesting TV: Avoiding The Bacteria That Slows Us Down
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 7, 2006
There's another report of non-kosher food on an El Al plane. ...
- Hilton, Spears' Snub Trashes 'Billboard' Ratings, NBC Has Heroic Monday
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, December 6, 2006
A heavyweight tag-team can wrestle down the best of music shows--even Fox ...
- TV-Content Companies' Key Strategy: Knowing When To Get Out Of The Way
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, December 6, 2006
It's time for television and video content providers to pull out the ...
- Pilot Officially Named NBCU Ad Chief, First Non-Vet To Helm A Net TV Sales Unit
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman, David Goetzl - Tuesday, December 5, 2006
As expected, GE industrial side executive Michael Pilot will take over f ...
- Scripps Reveals '07 Script: Broadcast Will Drop; Cable, Online Will Surge
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, December 5, 2006
The usual roller coaster of TV stations' local revenues is due ...
- Cable News Shows Now Help You Decide What To Think
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Increasingly, cable TV news schedules are now being filled without journalists--but wi ...
- Pilot Flies With Peacock, GE Exec Expected To Be New NBC Ad Sales Chief
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 4, 2006
Politics and sales makes for strange bedfellows. In the wake of Kei ...
- ABC Wins Thursday, Led By 'Grey's Anatomy'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 4, 2006
A day after the November sweeps ended, CBS and CW took ...
- Cable TV's Drama Dilemma
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 4, 2006
The TV program distribution landscape is changing again: After a decade, cab ...
- ABC Reigns As Sweeps King, CBS Retains Second Place
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, December 1, 2006
ABC won sweeps outright over CBS--the first time in seven years. T ...
- Live TV In Cars: Dangerous At Any Speed
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, December 1, 2006
Live TV could be in your car by 2007--but the sad ne ...
- Family TV: Can You Say 'Smackdown'?
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 30, 2006
Everyone has their own view about what constitutes family programming. But y ...
- 'House' Arrest: Fox Sweeps Tuesday, NBC Heads To Second
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 30, 2006
With no "Dancing with the Stars" in its hip pocket, ABC retreat ...
- It's No Holiday For TV Viewers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 30, 2006
Where are TV eyeballs this holiday season? Much like in recent year ...
- Stay Tuned: More Family Programming To Come, Network Execs Say
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 29, 2006
LOS ANGELES -- As major advertising executives continue to complain over t ...
- Time-Shifting Helps Deliver Family Programming, But Viewers Want More
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 29, 2006
LOS ANGELES -- Viewers who desire family TV programming for their prime-ti ...
- Family-Friendly Programming: When Ratings Take Dive, Where Do Advertisers Go?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Here's the dirty little secret about family-friendly programming: advertisers say they wa ...
- MTV To Develop Niche Broadband Channels
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 28, 2006
MTV Networks may have lost the battle to buy MySpace, but it ...
- ABC Still Rules Sunday Night, NFL Gives Fox A Close Second
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The song remained the same for Sunday-night leadership--still belonging to ABC. B ...
- Little Outrage Over Missed NFL Games On Cable
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 28, 2006
You could barely hear the rustle of beer bottles and pizza box ...
- CBS Scores Viewers With YouTube Alliance
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 27, 2006
The most popular videos on YouTube aren't skateboarders crashing into railings, b ...
- TV News Looks For One Singular Advertising Sensation
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 27, 2006
The challenging old-line network news business wants to be more singly speci ...
- ABC Wins Tuesday, Fox Second Fueled By 'House'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 24, 2006
ABC is closing in on its first outright November sweeps victory ...
- Disney Drops The E!, Strikes Digital Deal With Comcast
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Comcast Corp. and Walt Disney Co. took care of three long-term proble ...
- Local Ad Time Vs. News Time: News Loses
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 22, 2006
In a year when local TV stations amassed record billions in politic ...