- 'Jeopardy!' Finally Moves Past Champ Amodio -- And Non-Champ Richards
TV Watch, Phyllis Fine - Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Contestant Matt Amodio ends a long (but boring) winning streak, while show producers aim to survive the host shuffle debacle headlined by Mike Richards. ...
- U.S. 2022 Political Ads To Hit Record Levels, Estimates $7.8B-$8.9B
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 30, 2021
Driving this high estimate is the use of Facebook as a fundraising tool. ...
- Triton Unveils Agnostic Audio Ad Marketplace: Pools 100B Broadcast, Podcast, Streaming Impressions
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Friday, September 17, 2021
Triton Digital, which was acquired by audio media giant iHeartMedia in early 2021, said the open audience exchange will launch in the Q1 2022. ...
- Locast Suspends Operation After Losing Key Court Battle
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 2, 2021
The company's move came two days after a federal judge said Locast didn't qualify for a copyright law carve-out that applies when nonprofits boost antenna signals. ...
- Nielsen's New Gauge Metric: Streaming TV Rises, Cable Loses Ground In July
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 19, 2021
Streaming data was boosted by NBCU's coverage of the Tokyo Summer Olympic games. Nielsen also says there was ample pre-Olympics content on YouTube in the period to lift the streami ...
- Veteran Sports Production Executive Leon Schweir Dies At 68
Television News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, August 19, 2021
Schweir, most recently VP broadcast operations for NFL Media, helped pioneer the at-home production model now used throughout the industry. ...
- Media Dynamics Alert: Streaming Share Of U.S. Viewing +1,200% Since Early 2010s
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Monday, August 2, 2021
Online streaming's share of the U.S. TV/video viewing population has expanded 1,200% since the "early 2010s," according to a soon-to-be-released estimate from a forthcoming "TV Dimensions Alert" from media a ...
- NBC's Olympic Worry: Lack Of Viewer Interest Or Usable Cross-Platform Metric?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 2, 2021
TV networks have now ramped up their selling magic and sent out an alarm: Streaming's time has come. ...
- Marveling At Marv Albert As He Nears Retirement
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, July 1, 2021
Broadcasting skills such as those possessed by Marv Albert represent a dying art in today's anything-goes media world. ...
- Reviving Groucho Marx's 'Life' Is Winning 'Bet' For Leno
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, June 25, 2021
The news has trickled out over the last few months: Jay Leno will host a new version of "You Bet Your Life" inspired by the Groucho Marx original. ...
- Nielsen's New 'Gauge' Metric Shows Streaming Tops Broadcast For Viewers 2 And Up
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, June 18, 2021
Streaming has a 26% share for total day usage of TV for viewers 2 and up, with broadcast at 25%. But streaming "ad-supported" platforms only comprise a 4% share, sa ...
- TV Upfront Recovery: 2021-22 Forecast To Rise 7.6% To $19.9B
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 25, 2021
The TV upfront market is forecast to climb 7.6% to reach $19.9 billion for the 2021-2022 TV season, according to eMarketer. This includes ad spending on all national linear broadca ...
- Discovery/WarnerMedia Banks On Streaming, But Linear TV Remains Potent
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, May 24, 2021
A combined Discovery-WarnerMedia gains an industry-leading 29% of all time viewed across broadcast and cable. But it would still be "under-monetized." ...
- Spectrum News Networks Reports Record Audience Gains In April
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, May 20, 2021
Viewership for the 24/7 networks was driven by major news events during the month, including the Derek Chauvin verdict and President Joe Biden's address to a joint session of Congr ...
- Walt 'Clyde' Frazier: The Best Broadcaster In America
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, May 6, 2021
Clyde may not realize this, but he is one of the true treasures of New York City television today. ...
- Could A Broadcast TV Network Disappear In 5 Years?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, April 30, 2021
Monetizing a legacy TV network is challenging in an increasingly digital world. ...
- GroupM Forecast: Total U.S. TV Ad Spend To Grow 9.3% In 2021, Medium Remains Resilient
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
This year, local TV advertising is expected to rise 16% to $19.9 billion, while national TV is forecast to grow 6.6% to $42.6 billion. GroupM Global President of Business Intelligen ...
- U.S. To Introduce Bill Making Google, Facebook Pay For Publishers' Content
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
A bill being introduced Wednesday by U.S. lawmakers would make it easier for news organizations to negotiate collectively with platforms like Google and Facebook to get a better price f ...
- FOX CFO: Tubi Will Surpass Broadcast Entertainment Network Revenue
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
"Over time, you'll see the curves cross," Steve Tomsic said during an investor conference Tuesday. ...
- NBCU's Shell Sees Peacock As 'Broadcast' Ecosystem, Signups Hit 33 Million
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, January 29, 2021
NBCU CEO Jeff Shell cited the recent high-profile additions of the return of "The Office," and a long-term deal to carry WWE programming, which will now run on Peacock ...
- Free Local Broadcast Streaming Portal Locast Now Has 2.3M Registered Users, 26 Markets
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, January 18, 2021
The nonprofit, which is being sued by TV broadcasters, just added Madison, Wisconsin. ...
- The Media Optics Of The Capitol Insurgency
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Thursday, January 7, 2021
In the new Civil Info War against America the score is: Insurgents one, Democracy zero. ...
- 2 Billion Active On-Demand Video Services To Create Next-Gen Performance Marketing
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 4, 2021
Juniper Research forecasts active subscriptions for on-demand video services to be up 65% in 2025 vs. 2020, with traditional broadcasters increasingly turning to streaming services to extend their
reach. ...
- Katz Named COO, Head Of Entertainment For E.W. Scripps
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 17, 2020
Katz will oversee Scripps' entertainment brands including Bounce, Laff, Grit, Court TV Mystery as well as ION networks, Brown Sugar, a companion SVOD service to Bounce, and Scripps' national syndicat ...
- Broadcasters Test NextGen TV Via Comcast Cable Infrastructure
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, December 17, 2020
The participants aim to provide the industry with a foundation for a "real world" technical example of how to transmit ATSC 3.0 over hybrid fiber-coaxial infrastructure. ...
- Seattle Adopts NextGen TV -- Biggest Market To Date
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
BitPath -- which plans to launch the nation's first dedicated broadcast data network starting next year -- coordinated the efforts across the Seattle stations. ...
- You Said, 'Why Public Broadcasting?' I Still Say, 'Why Not?'
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, November 24, 2020
It appears my column a few weeks ago on public broadcasting hit a few raw nerves. ...
- Dear United States: You Should Think Differently About Public Broadcasting
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, November 10, 2020
In my ongoing discussion about how to support true and reliable journalism, there is one option I haven't talked about: public broadcasting. ...
- Sinclair Posts Massive $4.2B Q3 Loss, Points To RSN Issues, Changes In Consumer Behavior
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Results were impacted by RSN issues including subscriber erosion, loss of two major distributors, and COVID-19 effects. Political advertising was strong for all of Sinclair's TV stations and RSNs, ...
- Supreme Court To Consider Cross-Media Ownership Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 2, 2020
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by the FCC over its attempt to loosen restrictions on broadcasters' ability to own newspapers in the same market. ...
