- Paramount Mulls CNN Edit Board To Address Post-Merger Concerns
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Paramount, which has a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $ ...
- Prime-Time Upfront Ad Sales Rise 9% To $33.7B, CPMs Fall 6%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Streaming rocketed 30% to $17.2 billion from the year before, with cab ...
- Streaming, FAST, Content Deals: What's Left For Indie Cable Groups?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 6, 2026
Disney-Hearst's $1.2 billion deal begs the question: what is next for A+ ...
- Video Podcasts: Media Buyers Talking Up More Edgy Chat?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Where are the budget shifts coming from for video podcasts? Most likel ...
- Disney Selling 50% A+E Stake To Hearst For More Than $1B
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, July 31, 2026
The midsized cable TV network group, including A&E Network, History Channel, Lifetim ...
- MS Now, CNN, NewsNation Viewing Up In July
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Collectively, viewership for the top five cable news networks was up 1 ...
- Has Charter Finally Dialed What's Left Of Legacy Pay TV?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Is Charter - as well as other legacy cable and satellite p ...
- Unpacking The Lawsuits Opposing Paramount-WBD Merger
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, July 29, 2026
It is difficult to see how this merger will leave consumers wi ...
- Measurement Has Become Data Buffet And Marketers Need To Stop Grabbing Everything
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Before advertisers and media buyers obsess over outcomes, they need to a ...
- Trump's WHCA Speech: Shout-Out To Ellison And So Much More
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Like driving by a car accident, it was difficult to look aw ...
- Judge Puts Brakes On Paramount-WBD Merger
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 20, 2026
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Paramount from completing its $1 ...
- Selloffs Could Help WBD-Paramount To Overcome Lawsuit: Analyst
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 15, 2026
A Paramount-WBD merger will have an overall 28.5% share, in terms ...
- States Sue To Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 13, 2026
The merger "would extinguish competition between Paramount and Warner Bros. and infli ...
- Media Thumbs Down: Big, Diverse Communications, Content Mergers Are Over
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Big "vertical," synergistic-seeking media mergers are officially no longer a thing n ...
- Comcast Splitting Again, Will Spin NBCU Into Its Own Public Company
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, June 29, 2026
The move comes less than a year after splitting NBCU into t ...
- Splitting Comcast, NBCU: Advertising Implications?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, June 29, 2026
Can global ad-tech company Freewheel invest and grow more rapidly without NB ...
- America's Great Streaming Shuffle Continues, And Cable Somehow Refuses To Die
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Thursday, June 25, 2026
Millions of people connect their TVs to the internet, but cable a ...
- Nielsen: YouTube Gains, Fox-Roku Would Be Third
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 25, 2026
Disney slipped around half a share point to 10.3% and NBCU/Versant Med ...
- Everybody Has Eight Screens, Yet TV Still Runs The Show
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Beyond traditional viewing, consumers use TVs for YouTube videos, gaming, social med ...
- Paramount-WBD, Fox-Roku? No Worries For Netflix
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, June 17, 2026
"Our volume is not slowing down," Jinny Howe, head of U.S. a ...
- Fox-Roku Estimate: Third In Viewing, With 11% Share
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Fox Corp. had been focused on maximizing its linear TV/broadcast-cable TV netwo ...
- Biggest Midterm Cycle To Date, Political Ad Spend Reaches $4B Through June
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, June 12, 2026
Broadcast TV political ad spend is projected to reach $5.6 billion ...
- Now Paramount Wants To Sell Off... Some Cable Networks?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Paramount Skydance reportedly has an alternative plan to sell off kids cab ...
- '60 Minutes': Top News Show, Makes Money - But That Isn't Enough
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 4, 2026
CBS's "60 Minutes" is the top news show in all of televisi ...
- Comedian Plots First-Ever Late-Night Show For YouTube
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, May 27, 2026
In a promotional video on YouTube, comedian Ben Gleib positions his sh ...
- Thanks, Tom Hanks, For Sensational A&E WWII Documentary
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, May 22, 2026
A new 20-episode history of the war narrated and produced by T ...
- New Roku 'Creator Content' Access: Where's Your Bundle?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Roku is starting a new dedicated area for content creators and n ...
- Nielsen: Cable, Broadcast Decline In March - Streaming Gains
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Cable share for the month is down vs. a year ago, fr ...
- Rising NFL Media Costs: Where Do Consumers Fit In?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 19, 2026
The NFL is now getting heat from federal regulators and others ov ...
- Show About Illegal Squatters Takes Up Residence On A&E
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Monday, May 11, 2026
Almost under the radar, basic cable seems to have upped its ga ...