- NBCU Revives NBC Sports Network With YouTube TV, Xfinity Deals
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 2, 2025
The network will feature Big Ten Conference college athletics, NBA games (fr ...
- Where Are The New Ideas For Live Non-Sports Shows?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 2, 2025
Financial issues aside for these programs, the positive is that from ...
- Comcast's Cavanagh Named Co-CEO, Joins Roberts
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 29, 2025
Cavanagh, who will ascend to the position in January, has been preside ...
- Paramount-WBD Merger: Adding A TikTok Side Benefit?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 26, 2025
Should we be worried about CBS News being combined with CNN? N ...
- Cable Networks To Average 24M Subs By 2029: S&P
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Research shows that among 190 cable TV networks analyzed, 36 had ...
- Late Night TV Finance - Move Everything To Streaming?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, September 23, 2025
There has been much discussion of late-night talk shows moving to digit ...
- Cable Net Ad Plunge: Falls 6%
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Cable TV networks witnessed a 5.9% decline in 2024 to $20.15 billi ...
- Wilson, Vaughn Team To Enjoy Xfinity Sports Options
MAD, Fern Siegel - Monday, September 15, 2025
The "Wedding Crashers" duo star in ongoing spots throughout the football sea ...
- Rebuilding A Linear TV Network: Maybe Not Just With Sports
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 12, 2025
Paramount Skydance execs, including Paramount President Jeff Shell, believe they can re-launch/re-comm ...
- Paramount Skydance Reportedly Mulling All-Cash Deal To Acquire WBD
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 11, 2025
WBD's stock price rocketed up 26% to $15.79 in midday Thursday tradin ...
- Roku's Viewing Share Soars For All Its Platform Apps
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 4, 2025
Roku had a 21.4% share of TV viewing in July for a ...
- Defining 'Right-Leaning' News: Newsmax Sues Fox News
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, September 5, 2025
Newsmax accuses Fox of imposing a "no-carry" agreement with pay TV distributo ...
- Americans Spend More On Streaming Than Ever As Cable Loses Ground
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Spending on video and music streaming rose more than 10% year ov ...
- Fox Picks A Carriage Fight With YouTube TV
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, August 28, 2025
A carriage battle underway this week between Fox and YouTube TV serv ...
- YouTube TV, Fox Strike Short-Term Deal, Talks Continue
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 27, 2025
The companies are working toward a new agreement, executives close to t ...
- ESPN Streamer Estimate - 2M New Subs In 2025: Analysts
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, August 22, 2025
Analysts say ESPN's transition to streaming from linear will be slow, part ...
- MSNBC's Name Change: Will There Be Regrets?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 19, 2025
MS NOW stands for My Source New Opinion World. Will the n ...
- MSNBC To Become 'MS NOW' Under Versant
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 18, 2025
The new brand name will be MS NOW (My Source News Opini ...
- Not Selling Cable Networks? Not Paramount... At Paramount
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 18, 2025
Paramount Skydance wants to "redefine" its cable channels' "brands" -- not se ...
- Marketers Hold Steady On Ad Spend As AI, Identity, CTV Dominate H2 Priorities
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Thursday, August 14, 2025
Traditional media allocations remained stable, with national and local TV showing litt ...
- TV Consumers Maxed Out On Monthly Spend: $86/Month
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Current monthly consumer costs range from $68 for one service to $ ...
- Prime-Time Upfront +5% To $31B, CPMs Drop
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Streaming platforms grew 17.9% to $13.2 billion vs. a year ago, whi ...
- Jumping The Cable TV Deal Line: ESPN's Equity Deal With The NFL?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 5, 2025
The league would get a 10% minority equity ownership in ESPN, whi ...
- Skydance Media Announces Paramount Global Senior Executive Team
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 4, 2025
The company will be divided into three businesses: studios, D2C and ...
- Streaming Ad Sales Grow 22% In Q2, Upfront Sees Spikes
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Cable TV took the brunt of the rise in streaming - wi ...
- Still Beating Video - After The Expected Demise Of Cable?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 30, 2025
"We are beginning to see the early impact of Charter's bundled streami ...
- Total Ad-Supported Viewing Up 2% In Q2: Nielsen
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Ad-supported streaming grew 7% by 2.9 share points to 45.3% share, whi ...
- NBCU Starting A Sports Network - After Axing One 4 Years Ago?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Comcast/NBCU is considering starting up a sports network as a supplemental platfo ...
- Should Station Ownership Limits Continue? Newsmax Thinks So
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 28, 2025
Newsmax wants to keep around a decades-old restriction that seems to f ...
- Linear's Ad-Supported Adult Viewing Share Still Near 70%
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 23, 2025
The non-profit trade association for the ad-supported TV industry says June's streami ...