- Deal With It: One Prime-Time Show Can't Make A Network
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 25, 2006
Looking for one show to change your network prime-time fortunes? Forget i ...
- Cablevision: Cable Revs Up Nearly 14%, Gets Grand Jury Subpoena
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 22, 2006
Amid swirling investigations into its stock-option practices, Cablevision Systems Corp. showed ...
- CBS Wins Wed. Night, ABC Hangs In With 'Grey's' Repeats
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 22, 2006
In the first three days of the new season, three different networ ...
- NFL Network Looks To Tackle; Comcast's Roberts Looking For Blockers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 22, 2006
NFL Network stands for Noose-like Football Leverage. It's the kind of levera ...
- ABC, Fox Take Tuesday In Season's Second Night
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 21, 2006
There is a changing of the guard at the networks. ABC bare ...
- Name Game: OLN Becomes Versus To Beef Up Image, Competitive Edge
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 21, 2006
Any network that uses the words "outdoor" and "life" in its tit ...
- Good News For TV Entrepreneurs Targeting The Sleep-deprived
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 21, 2006
How much more video are we able to watch? Plenty, apparently--especially ...
- NBC Charges Into New Season, Scoring Monday Night Victory
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Meet the new boss of Monday night. It's NBC--for now. The netwo ...
- Syndication: 'Rachael Ray' Triumphs, 'Mullally' Holds Her Own
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 20, 2006
The syndication business just got a jolt. And you can thank Racha ...
- Networks Know Not To Copy H-P's Journalist Spy Plot
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 20, 2006
It seems that Hewlett-Packard doesn't trust journalists, as it had plans ...
- Hoping For A Media Assist, CBS Tries Assistance
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 19, 2006
In an effort to leave no new media stone unturned to he ...
- New TV Network May Be Set For Shutout
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 19, 2006
ESPN's "Monday Night Football" witnessed the lowest scoring game in "MNF" history- ...
- Poltrack Fast-Forwards DVR Playback, Predicts Higher Commercial Ratings
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 18, 2006
A CBS senior executive predicts that increased DVR playback viewing will resu ...
- "Survivor"'s Loyal Viewers Find It's Less About Race, More About The Run
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 18, 2006
By all accounts, the new, racier "Survivor"--which portends to be all abo ...
- CBS, Comcast Rework VOD Deal
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 15, 2006
Jumping on the trend of free, ad-supported digital programming, CBS has rework ...
- ABC Avoids Airing Free Premieres On Web
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 15, 2006
Unlike virtually all other networks, ABC has avoided offering exclusive premieres ...
- For Rupert Murdoch, It's Flush And Repeat: A Bird In The Hand
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 15, 2006
"Turd bird," anyone? One major media company may be using this unfortuna ...
- ABC Strikes Broadband Deal With Stations, Will Offer Local Spots
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 14, 2006
In striking a wide-ranging digital-programming deal with its stations, the Disney-ABC Televisi ...
- 'Dancing With The Stars' Debut Outsteps 'House,' 'Big Brother'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 14, 2006
Picking up on the right foot, ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" debut ...
- The Entertainment Democracy: Viewers Are Making Creative Decisions
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 14, 2006
What if fans had voted that Mick Jagger should have fronted T ...
- ESPN Scores Big With First "Monday Night Football"
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Making good on its pricey NFL purchase, ESPN's "Monday Night Football" fir ...
- Moonves Chirps About CBS' Future, Pleased With CW's Progress
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 13, 2006
CBS is happy with CW's progress, CBS' performance in prime time a ...
- Les, We Forget: TV Business Is More Than High Ratings
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 13, 2006
"Staying power" is how Les Moonves describes the fact that the netwo ...
- Network Upfront Was Flatter, But Scatter Is Fatter
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman, Tom Siebert - Tuesday, September 12, 2006
The upfront ad market may have been a weak affair, with declini ...
- The CW's Kids' Block Meets Ad Goals
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 12, 2006
The CW has taken over the selling and programming of the Ki ...
- Handicapping The New Fall TV Season, With Some Curious Omissions
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Bravo's broadband channel, Brilliant But Cancelled, is running a contest letting viewe ...
- DIC Kids' Network Morphs Into Teen Version In '07
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 11, 2006
The kids' TV market is having a tough year--for national networks a ...
- 'CBS Evening News' Loses Ground, But Remains On Top
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 11, 2006
"The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric" continues to trend down, wi ...
- TV News With Emotional Notes
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 11, 2006
Are you moved by the network evening newscasts? Emotionally torn? Joyously thrille ...
- MyNetworkTV Gets Nielsen Weekly Ratings, Not Overnights
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 8, 2006
Nielsen Media Research will treat MyNetworkTV like other broadcast networks--almost. MyNetworkTV wi ...