- Early TV Standouts: 'Mentalist,' 'Fringe'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 13, 2008
A few weeks into the new TV season, Interpublic Group of Cos ...
- How To Entertain In A Recession: High-priced TVs Or Low Moral Standards?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Two things consumers won't cut back on in these hard economic time ...
- Viacom Warns 3Q Revs Will Take Big Hits
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 10, 2008
Viacom says a now-expected 2% drop in worldwide advertising revenue for i ...
- 'Kath & Kim,' 'Life on Mars' Have Decent Debuts
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 10, 2008
New network shows are doing OK. NBC's "Kath & Kim" and ABC ...
- Like Movie Marketers Eyeing Premiere Night. Obama Makes Major TV Ad Buy
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 13, 2008
With virtually unlimited campaign money, Barack Obama will make another big spla ...
- Oscars Awards Show To Allow Film Commercials
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 9, 2008
ABC's "Academy Awards" show will now get some additional dramatic content duri ...
- FLO TV Ups Mobile Offerings
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 10, 2008
Mobile TV advertising growth estimates are being cut back--but mobile TV programme ...
- Too Early For Alarms At ABC And NBC? Maybe DVR Ratings Will Put Out The Fire
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 10, 2008
The warning bells must be ringing at ABC -- and soon, perha ...
- Political TV Ad Estimates Lowered; Obama Still Outspending McCain
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Record political TV advertising is still in the cards for TV outle ...
- Time Warner Brings Web Video To Hawaiian TV
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Oceanic Time Warner Cable has struck a deal with ActiveVideo Networks ...
- Internet Ad Deals Have Learned From TV: Will New TV Ad Pacts Return The Favor?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 9, 2008
The old days of big TV advertising stories were about $100- million-or-mo ...
- CBS: Biden Scores On War, Palin On Bailout
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 7, 2008
In response to a real-time screening of the recent vice presidential debat ...
- DVR Ratings: Boosts Nets, Especially CW, Fox
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 7, 2008
A week before the formal start of the season, CW and F ...
- CBS Owns Monday, 'Two Men' Dances Around 'Stars'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 7, 2008
CBS won its third Monday in a row, with ABC and F ...
- NBC Weather Plus Washed Away, While New Digital TV Networks Seek Ad Sunshine
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 8, 2008
NBC is turning off one of the most highly recognized multicast loc ...
- Case Deleted: EchoStar Loses TiVo Appeal
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 6, 2008
TiVo has prevailed over its long court case against EchoStar's Dish Networ ...
- CW Sunday Has Rough Start
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 7, 2008
CW's decision to sell off its Sunday night programming block may ha ...
- Toward The Day TV Stations And Other Programmers Are Truly Free
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 7, 2008
For the public good, both Time Warner Cable and Lin TV Cor ...
- Biden v. Palin Winner: TV Ratings
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 3, 2008
Delivering as expected, the closely watched vice presidential debate between Sen. J ...
- Fade To Black: Lin TV Dark, No TWC Retrans Deal
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 3, 2008
LIN TV stations on Time Warner Cable systems went dark Thursday nig ...
- Do 70 million VP Debate Viewers Mean Anything For New TV Season?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 6, 2008
Seventy million people watched the vice presidential debate last Thursday. The effe ...
- TVB: Broadcast Network Shows Still Dominate Cable TV
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 2, 2008
Cable networks may continue to claim increasingly higher ratings at the expen ...
- ABC's 3 Big Dramas Fail To Ignite
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 2, 2008
ABC put a lot of marketing effort into re-launching its Wednesday nig ...
- Just In Case You Forgot: Some YouTube Videos Still Need Vetting
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 3, 2008
TV commercial confusion, loose fact-checking, and misguided use of copyrighted material. The ...
- Week 1 Proves Strong One: Primetime Regains Primacy, Cable Primary Factor
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Television's good news, according to Magna, IPG's media research and consulting grou ...
- Sports Ratings Impacted By Cross-Platform Viewing
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Don't just take those TV ratings as an indication of a spor ...
- First Week: Viewers Don't Sink Their Teeth In; Little Bite For Networks
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 2, 2008
Results from the first week of the TV season are in ...
- Stream Team: Viacom Leads Networks Online
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 29, 2008
When it comes to the number of video streams on the Interne ...
- Spot Runner, MultiVu Launch Video Service
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 29, 2008
Spot Runner, the Los Angeles-based automated advertising agency for mid-size marketers, h ...
- Project Runway: More Like Project Product Placement On The Run?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Was Harvey Weinstein's problem with NBC and Bravo all about product integrati ...