- Agency Finds C3 Causing Broadcast Dip, Cable Uptick
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 1, 2007
From a TV advertising perspective, the new TV programming season has be ...
- Sinclair Sees 13% TV Rev Dip, 44% Overall
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 1, 2007
Sinclair Broadcast Group reported a 44% drop of net income--with lower advertisi ...
- Latin Grammys Attract Major Ad Sponsors
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 1, 2007
The Latin Recording Academy today announced a number of corporate TV sponsors--ma ...
- Writer's Strike Will Strike Down Late-Night Marketers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 1, 2007
What you know is that the immediate effect of a writer's stri ...
- NBC's IGA Deal Expands Reach Into Video Games
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Moving more into off-TV media platforms, NBC Universal will begin selling advertisi ...
- TiVo Showcase Clicks With Subscribers
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Good news for the networks: New research suggests that when TiVo subscribe ...
- Nets Rely On Reruns To Boost Mondays
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Monday Redux: The top two networks had identical ratings to those ...
- CBS Decides Not To Roll Dice With NATPE In Vegas
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 31, 2007
There goes the neighborhood: CBS Television Distribution, the dominant player in t ...
- Zogby: Consumers Want Pick-And-Choose Cable
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Pollster Zogby Interactive says consumers prefer to pick their own cable networks--b ...
- Court TV Kicks Off 'Actuality' Theme
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Following its decision to re-brand itself as "truTV" this past summer, Cou ...
- Munching On Apple: NBC's Zucker Says It Was Small Bite
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 30, 2007
To Jeff Zucker, some Internet platforms just equate to big CPMs, b ...
- McCain Defies Fox: Won't Pull Ad
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 29, 2007
Fox News Channel wants Sen. John McCain to stop airing a presidenti ...
- Cablevision: TV Customers Pay More in '08
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 29, 2007
Cablevision Systems will make its core TV consumers pay somewhat more ...
- World Series Is Good To Fox, 'Grey's' Remains No. 1
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 29, 2007
ABC's women-targeted "Grey's Anatomy" continues to bring in big numbers; Fox's male-orient ...
- MyNetwork TV: Still Low Ratings, But High Ad Expectations
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 29, 2007
Joke all you want to about MyNetworkTV's microscopic ratings. Then look close ...
- Comcast 3Q Earnings Drop Staggering 54%
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 26, 2007
All of a sudden, Comcast Corp.'s TV picture has started to darke ...
- Score: World Series Game 1 Blowout For Fox
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 26, 2007
Fox's game one of the World Series between the Red Sox a ...
- Cable Operators Lose Ground: More Setbacks To Follow?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 26, 2007
Comcast can float all boats -- cable operators' boats, that is. B ...
- Tribune: Ad Categories Hit, Overall Revs Up 4%
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 25, 2007
Television advertising sales at Tribune Co. offered a weak financial picture ...
- Cablevision Rejects Dolans' Bid As Too Low
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 25, 2007
Do the Dolans want to buy Cablevision Systems on the cheap? Mar ...
- TV's Big Spin -- On Or Off
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 25, 2007
n TV world, it's déclassé for any show to be called ...
- NBC Sees Green: Produces Green Content, New Building
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
NBC Universal has gone green. It will produce some 150 hours ...
- Advertisers Mull Strategy For Writers Strike
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
A writers' strike won't have any immediate effect on the $9 billi ...
- 'Samantha' Soars, CBS Comedies Click
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Not many new shows maintain ratings after their season debuts. Few wou ...
- California Fires Fire Up Local Stations -- With Commerce Cooling Its Jets
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Local California TV news stations have now done stretches -- 12, 1 ...
- New Commercial Ratings Score For Sports Nets
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
New commercial ratings for cable networks during the first week of t ...
- The CW: Ho-Hum Shows, Seemingly All For Young Women
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The CW is off to a slow, revealing start: Do those initia ...
- Fox Business Will Cover The Green, But Initially Will See Mostly Red Ink
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 22, 2007
Lost in the headlines of last week's launch of the Fox Busine ...
- CBS' 'Viva' Takes Big Hit, Fox's Baseball Scores
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 22, 2007
One of the most highly scrutinized shows of the season, CBS' "Vi ...
- 'Viva Laughlin': Singing & Dancing, But Not In The Marketing
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 22, 2007
Take an unusual TV drama -- so unusual that it has music ...