- 2020 Recorded More Viewing Time, But Fewer Viewers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 11, 2021
Pandemic-driven, at-home TV consumption went in two different directions last year. Digital video continued to see rapid gains. ...
- Major TV Broadcast Networks See Double-Digit Viewing Declines, News Networks Soar
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, December 18, 2020
The top four networks collectively are down 17% in Nielsen-measured average prime-time viewers and 23% in average prime-time 18-49 viewers. CBS is 22% lower to 5.6 million, while NBC ...
- Nielsen Adds National, Local Ad Spend By Advertiser To Top-Ten Lists
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Nielsen is adding ad spend by advertiser across national/local TV and Spanish-language national/local TV to its publicly disclosed top 10 TV-related lists. The top five biggest national TV advertisers ...
- Samba TV Grows Revenue Over $100 Million Globally, Adds TiVo Data Deal
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, December 15, 2020
In the deal with TiVo, its time-shifted technology data will be added from "a cross-section of multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) in the U.S." Samba TV struck deals with Wa ...
- Cable TV News Network Ratings Soar On Strong Election Interest
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Collectively, the top three cable TV news networks' average prime-time viewership spiked 71% to 10.1 million Nielsen-measured viewers in live program-plus-same day time-shifted viewing. Fox News Channel was up 13 ...
- News Networks Post 40%+ Q3 Gains: Election, Pandemic Coverage Cited
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Heavy interest in the election and COVID-19 drove Nielsen-measured prime-time viewing for three major cable TV news networks up 40% to 47% vs. the same period a year ago, wi ...
- NBCU: CTV Viewership Up 95% Last Year; Half To Three-Quarters Of All TV Viewing Now Time-Shifted
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, September 24, 2020
NBCU's first "One Audience Trends Report" offers stats and examples from its own portfolio that underscore how much cross-platform consumption is, or should be, transforming media-buying strategies. ...
- Daily Video Time On TV-Connected Devices Surpasses An Hour
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, August 14, 2020
Daily average time spent on TV-connected devices has grown by 20 minutes over two years, and 12 minutes in the past year alone, Nielsen reports. ...
- 605 Intros 'Bring Your Own Data' App For National Cross-Platform TV
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, February 6, 2020
The new web-based app, to be piloted by Discovery and AMC Networks, allows media buyers and networks to combine their own viewership datasets with 605's data on 21 million U. ...
- TiVo Strikes $3 Billion Merger All-Stock Deal With Xperi
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 19, 2019
Tivo is merging with Xperi Corp., a company focused on audio, imaging and computing technology products, in an all-stock deal with an enterprise value of $3 billion. Products from Ti ...
- 10 Weeks Into TV Season, NBC Leads Total Viewing, Fox Grows Prime-Time Viewers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, December 4, 2019
NBC scored 9.08 million average total prime-time viewers, while Fox is the only major broadcast TV network to see an increase among key prime-time audience viewing groups, according to Nielsen ...
- Fewer Broadcast Prime-Time Shows With 10 Million-Plus Viewers This Season
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 18, 2019
Analysis of longer time-shifted availability of network prime-time shows up to a week after the initial first airing may not be helping TV networks much. ...
- ABC To Stop Releasing Live Program/Same Day TV Viewing Data
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 11, 2019
ABC will only release viewing data for three-, seven-, or 35-day time-shifted viewing across its multi video platforms. Following the increasing standard of TV advertiser deals pegged to more time-shift ...
- Which TV Shows Accrue The Most Time-Shifted Ratings, By Programming Genre
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Monday, October 7, 2019
While live-plus-same day and/or live-plus-seven days of time-shifted viewing are the coin of network TV's advertising realm, Nielsen has published an analysis making the case for much longer windows ...
- Few Network Scripted Shows Post Viewership Gains Season-To-Date
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 4, 2019
Through nearly two weeks of the new TV season, only eight of 56 scripted broadcast network TV shows have posted overall viewership gains, looking at Nielsen's live program-plus-same day time-shift ...
- Virtual Pay TV Services 'Use' Down Versus A Year Ago
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Overall, TiVo says live TV still sees the strongest results from viewers. Two of the better-performing vMVPDs are Hulu with Live TV, which is 3% lower in "use," and Sli ...
- In Age Of Time-Shifted Viewing, Networks Stay On Schedule
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, May 14, 2019
It seems so quaint, doesn't it? TV networks, in this day and age, announcing their fall schedules according to such antiquated notions as the day and time. ...
- TiVo Revenues Sink On Lower Pay TV Licensing Deals
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Revenue licensing to U.S. pay TV providers sank 49% to $42.3 million. Total licensing deals, including deals to consumer electronics manufacturers, declined 37% to $72 million. TiVo does not repo ...
- Amazon Develops DVR, Competes With TiVo
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 17, 2018
Looking to compete with TiVo and Sling TV DVR technology, Amazon is developing a digital TV recording machine that allows for streaming of video content to digital devices. ...
- Dear Cable TV, You're Fired! Says Consumer Reports
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, July 3, 2018
CR is advocating that consumers take charge of their TV-viewing expenditures by exploring a host of alternatives to cable. ...
- Nielsen To Add Time-Shifted Viewing Metric To Local TV
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, May 17, 2018
The company says the metric will first be available via monthly reports, starting in July. Daily reports will be available starting in September, which Nielsen says will be "precisely reporti ...
- New Broadcast TV Season, Same Ratings Declines
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 10, 2017
After two weeks of the new season, traditional broadcast TV network viewership metrics are following similar results from a year ago with double-digit percentage declines, but the addition of time-shift ...
- NBCU, Time Warner, Viacom Tops In August Program, Commercial Share
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 19, 2017
NBCU pulled in a 15.3% share of all viewers, aggregating all its networks, as well as TV station program syndication. Time Warner had an 11.8% share and Viacom earned ...
- More Double-Digit Declines For C3 TV Ratings, Broadcast Nets Hit Hardest
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 17, 2017
TV network ratings for July continued their steeper downward trend -- 10% below results of a year ago for prime time among 18-49 viewers in the C3 metric, and do ...
- NBC Wants Media To Focus On Delayed, Digital Viewing Of TV Shows
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 3, 2017
NBC wants business writers and critics to focus more on overall viewing, not just live program viewing measures. The revenue from delayed viewing is "significant," says Bob Greenblatt, chairman, N ...
- Time-Shifting Boosts CBS Prime-Time Viewing By 53%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Gleaning data from Nielsen's evolving Total Content Ratings, CBS touts strong time-shifted viewing from traditional TV platforms for the recently completed 2016-2017 TV season. ...
- Internet-Connected TV Viewing Higher, Overall TV Usage Drops
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Viewing on Internet-connected TV devices is now up more than 50% versus a year ago. That's against the broader picture of all TV usage, which continues to decline. ...
- Trump Loads His TiVo, America Time-Shifts News Shows
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, June 19, 2017
Networks like to see consumers saving TV shows. They also like to know where viewers engage in that content -- such as social media. Time-shifted viewing of non-scripted/news content continu ...
- TiVo Gets Favorable Patent Ruling, Stock Price Up
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Entertainment technology/TV research company Tivo saw its stock jump nearly 8% higher to $17.70 in early Tuesday morning trading due to a favorable patent decision. ...
- TiVo Scores Stronger Revenues, Stock Price Soars
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 16, 2017
TiVo's revenue grew 69% to $252.3 million from $149.5 million, while net income dropped in half -- to $9.8 million from $26.3 million. A day after reporting its fourth-quarter financi ...