- Sinclair Gets $115M Investment From Amazon For Diamond Sports Financial Restructuring
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Amazon's deal will put its streaming app unit Bally Sports+ in t ...
- National TV Ad Spending Fell 5% To $43.7B In 2023
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 18, 2024
Although household TV ad impressions and TV ad airings grew in 202 ...
- Nielsen: Broadcast, Cable Continue Downward Trend In December
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Broadcast TV was down 4.3% in December vs. November, and its sha ...
- NBC To Stream First Commercial-Free Fourth Quarter In NFL Game
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 21, 2023
NBC's first ad-free fourth quarter in a Christmas holiday-season football game wi ...
- Broadcast TV Season: Fall Ad Airings Rise 23%, TV Ads Grow To $6.93B
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 14, 2023
The five English-language broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The ...
- Paramount Global For Sale? For Most, This Always Means CBS
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 27, 2023
Analysts are speculating that Paramount Global or parts of that company m ...
- Las Vegas Super Bowl Host City Promotes 'Excessive Celebration' In Campaign
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 22, 2023
The official host city of Super Bowl LVIII is launching a quir ...
- Digital Revenue Profitability Confusing For Local Media Companies
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, November 17, 2023
A survey of financial execs shows the greatest challenge lies in accura ...
- New Scripted TV Shows Starting Up February 2024: Good Viewing News?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 15, 2023
The key may be what happens three months down the road ...
- Fox Television Stations Starting Political Advertising Unit
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Fox Television Stations is starting up a new political ad unit ...
- NFL Boosts Broadcast Viewing In September, Prime Video Climbs 7.5%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 17, 2023
NFL football boosted broadcast networks' total day viewing in September nearly 1 ...
- ABC Returns To 'Monday Night Football' Origins: Airing All Games This Season
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 19, 2023
ABC is adding a full schedule of "Monday Night Football" games th ...
- Network TV's Double Whammy: Flat Pricing, Declining Supply
Planning & Buying Insider, Joe Mandese - Monday, September 18, 2023
While ad demand is beginning to rebound again, the growth is almo ...
- Byron Allen Bids $10B For ABC, Other Disney Nets
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, September 15, 2023
Nexstar also reportedly is in talks with Disney, following remarks CEO B ...
- Another Ground-Breaking TV Deal For Disney?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 15, 2023
"ABC would add to [Nexstar's] existing $2 billion-plus of annual ad reven ...
- CBS Strike Plan Adds Aussie 'NCIS,' 'Blue Bloods' Classics
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, September 7, 2023
CBS is importing the only "NCIS" spin-off produced outside the U.S. ...
- Disney, Charter Push Pay TV Alternatives During Heated Carriage Contract Dispute
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Amid tense negotiations and the blackout of networks/stations, Charter and Disney a ...
- Summer National TV Ad Revenue Down 2.5%, Fox's MLB Top Program Earner
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 31, 2023
The highest individual revenue-producing show this summer is Fox's Major League Basebal ...
- Christie Super PAC Campaign Is 1st To Weaponize Trump's Mugshot
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Ad from super PAC backing Chris Christie shows mugshot with words "lie ...
- SVODs Lose Viewing Share To FASTS, Users Swamped By 2.3M Streaming Titles
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, August 28, 2023
Ad-free SVODs' share fell to 49% in May, reports Nielsen's Gracenote u ...
- Despite Strikes, Five Scripted Shows On NBC Are Ready For Fall
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Monday, August 28, 2023
The five NBC scripted dramas stand in stark contrast to the oth ...
- In A Streaming TV World, Whither U.S. TV Station Syndication?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 25, 2023
U.S. syndication programming and advertising continues to show weakness. So where do ...
- Linear TV Reaches New Dipping Point - But Is It A Tipping Point?
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, August 25, 2023
Linear TV's decline to less than 50% of all TV viewing w ...
- ABC's Newest 'Bachelor' Is A Golden Oldie
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, August 17, 2023
ABC's long-running "The Bachelor" is skewing older this fall with a n ...
- McMahon Rises To CEO At CBS News, Stations, CBS Media Ventures
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 14, 2023
Combining its TV stations, local news operations, and U.S. syndication business und ...
- CBS's New Fall Script: Games, Ghosts And 'Yellowstone'
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Like its fellow networks, CBS had to scrap the schedule announced la ...
- Amazon Drives Higher Prime Day Sales With Fewer Linear TV Ads
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Monday, August 14, 2023
Advertising a digital sales event on traditional media may not be ...
- Linear TV Prime-Time Upfront Shrinks 5%, CTV Expands 31%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 10, 2023
"What we are witnessing is both forms of TV content access ...
- Summer Production Halt Means No Fall Shows For TV Columnists
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, August 10, 2023
A production crisis brought on by the Hollywood writers' and actors' strik ...
- Exuberant CBS Summer Show Celebrates Superfandom
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, August 8, 2023
LL Cool J, Shania Twain, Pitbull, Gloria Estefan and other top mus ...