- NBC, CBS Execs: Are Upfronts Obsolete?
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman, David Goetzl - Friday, January 25, 2008
Top executives at NBC Universal and CBS have been dropping hints th ...
- 'Truth' Rating May Be Consequence Of Strike
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, January 25, 2008
This is just what the writers' union didn't want to hear: ...
- No Oscars? No Problem; Movie Studios Take A Sporting Approach
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, January 25, 2008
Movies studios are back big time in this year's Super Bowl. A ...
- 'USA Today' Partners With CSTV, Builds Interactive Site
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 24, 2008
The college sports TV network and Web site, CSTV Networks, has stru ...
- CBS' Last.fm Makes Music Free, Ad-Supported
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 24, 2008
Looking to bring free music back to consumers, CBS has launched ...
- 'Idol' Continues To Wow Viewers
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 24, 2008
"American Idol" still dominated on its third outing of the season--even again ...
- Will TV Consumers Weigh In On The Oscars And Writers' Strike?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 24, 2008
Where is the consumer uproar about this season's lack of high-profile, high-star-lev ...
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 24, 2008
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- Media Stocks Dive Along With Market
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Media stocks were not immune to the stock market's wild ride downwa ...
- NBC Lines Up Mondays
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Give NBC its due this mixed-up broadcast year--it has figured out h ...
- TV Song-And-Dance Upfronts Are A No-Go, But Upfront Markets Dance On
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 23, 2008
V's advertising economics are not that hard to figure out -- ev ...
- NFC Playoff Dominates Ratings
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Fox's Sunday night NFC Championship game between the New York Giants a ...
- Syndie Sees Cable As Potential Biz Provider
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 22, 2008
The syndication business will change in the coming years because of n ...
- Digital Video Ratings: Tell Us A Story
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Trying to comprehend why a body of traditional TV ratings goes high ...
- NBCU: Profits Grew 10% In 2007
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, January 21, 2008
Being fourth place as a TV network doesn't take away from NBC ...
- ION, Omnicom Create African-American Programming Block
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, January 21, 2008
The Ion Television Network has struck a deal with Omnicom's sports a ...
- Your Writers' Strike Theory Is Wrong
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, January 21, 2008
Crazy writers' strike theories abound in the TV business and consumer pre ...
- Set-Up Shot: Turner To Handle NBA Cable Channel
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, January 18, 2008
Turner Broadcasting System will take over all programming and distribution for t ...
- Bravo Marketing Chief To Head Oxygen Media
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, January 18, 2008
Bravo senior marketing executive Jason Klarman has been named senior executive ...
- APTS: 50% Of Surveyed Viewers Reject Digital
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, January 18, 2008
In the wake of the transition to all digital TV signals co ...
- TV Consumers Know The WGA -- And Possibly Its Connection With Drivers And Divots
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, January 18, 2008
In this season of the TV writers' strike, networks executives have las ...
- Prime-Time Ratings Down, Strike Not Blamed
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 17, 2008
With half the broadcast season already done, live prime-time ratings continue ...
- 'Idol' Blows Away All Rivals
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 17, 2008
The nuclear TV bomb of Fox's "American Idol" continues to blow aw ...
- Fired? No, We Just Parted Ways
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 17, 2008
Do you have "role of scale"? You'd better; otherwise you might n ...
- Oprah Gets A Channel Of Her OWN--Literally, Teams With Discovery
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Looking to create a higher profile for one of its lackluster channel ...
- 'Terminator' OK, But NBC Retains Key Demo
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" lost some football muscle, but ...
- Low-Quality, Trashy TV Sets Meet Low-Quality, Trash Programming
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Trash TV makes money. And, now your old TV sets, turned in ...
- USA Today Expands TV, Online Properties
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Looking to extend its USA Today brand, the television arm of t ...
- Football Playoffs, 'Sarah Connor' Score For Fox
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Is there a writers' strike going on? Viewers may not think so-- ...
- Super Bowl 2008: Some Advertisers Looking To Get To First Base
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Is the skank back in big-event TV, in this new WGA-strike ...