- ESPN Tops Cablers For November Prime Time, Fox News Second, Hallmark Channel Third
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 2, 2021
For the second straight month, ESPN -- thanks to its "Monday Nig ...
- IPG Mediabrands Rating TV News Buys Based On Misinformation, Will Use In Upfront
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, December 2, 2021
The deal with NewsGuard is exclusive to IPG clients, and covers 1 ...
- Disney's Cable TV Nets Sink 10% In Subscribers YoY
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 29, 2021
Disney's annual report says its distributed U.S networks have each dipped so ...
- Leichtman: Pay-TV Subs Down 650K In Q3, Vs. 1.23M Loss In Q2
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 19, 2021
AT&T's spun-off DirecTV, U-verse and AT&T TV collectively lost 412,000 subs ...
- NBCUniversal Scores Premier League's Soccer In Multi-Year Billion-Dollar Deal
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 19, 2021
NBCU will air 380 games through 2028 on NBC, USA Network, Telemund ...
- DJ Khaled Brings Authenticity, Passion To Pandora's Multichannel Brand Campaign
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Khaled expresses his genuine love for Pandora with three ads that wi ...
- Nielsen's October 'Gauge' Remains Relatively Flat For Streaming
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 18, 2021
Cable TV still commanded the biggest share -- 38% -- which w ...
- Cord Cutting Slowed Significantly In Q3
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 12, 2021
Pay-TV subscriptions declined by only 105,000 compared to Q2, estimates one anal ...
- Disney+ Subscribers Now Total 118 Million, Linear TV Business Dips
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Disney CEO Bob Chapek believes Disney+ can reach 230 million to 2 ...
- High-Priced Scatter Deals May Not Worry Brand Advertisers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 8, 2021
The growth of CTV media deals may be having a major effe ...
- Disney To Pull The Plug On ESPN Classic On Jan. 1
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 5, 2021
The network and its on-demand service lost their differentiation, and much ...
- Discovery Explores Bundling Streamers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 5, 2021
Discovery is hinting it could bundle Discovery+ with HBO Max -- possib ...
- October Cable TV News Viewing Records Declines
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Much of this decline was expected after a big 2020 presidential y ...
- Charter Q3 Video Revenues Higher, Aided By Sports
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 29, 2021
Charter Communications still witnessed decent gains in overall video revenue -- ...
- NBCU's Tokyo Olympics, Movie Biz Drive Strong Q3 Revenues
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 28, 2021
Ad revenues grew 73% -- mostly driven by the Tokyo Olympics, b ...
- TV Ads Will Straddle Streaming AND Linear For Years To Come
Media Insider, Dave Morgan - Thursday, October 28, 2021
Linear isn't going away any time soon, and the implications are signific ...
- The Bully Pulpit Project: Genius Glut Redux
MediaDailyNews, Bob Garfield - Thursday, October 21, 2021
In this, the first in a series of dispatches socializing "The Bul ...
- Getting National TV Unmasked: Early Returns Improve, But Not Everywhere
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
We don't have broad visibility for the current 2021-2022 TV season. B ...
- New ViacomCBS, Altice Carriage Deal Includes Streaming Services
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, October 18, 2021
Optimum and Suddenlink customers will now be able to sign up f ...
- Trevor Noah Says Diverse Staff Helps Expand The Daily Show's 'Mind'
TV Watch, Steve McClellan - Friday, October 15, 2021
Noah is the first guest of a new series by Expensify explori ...
- iSpot.tv Buys DRMetrix, With Focus On Tracking Addressable Ads, New Formats
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, October 11, 2021
DRMetrix says inventory can "cover up" nationally sold TV inventory by cab ...
- Forecast: Traditional TV Sees No Big Ad Gains In 2022, But CTV Rises
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, September 27, 2021
National TV on broadcast and cable networks is only expected to gr ...
- What Is A Cable Network Worth Now?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, September 23, 2021
Scores of lesser-profile premium streaming services are hoping they can make ...
- 'Law & Order: SVU,' Sturdiest 'L&O' Of Them All, Returns For Season 23
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, September 23, 2021
Somewhere on some TV channel in the U.S. or abroad right no ...
- Locast Claimed To Offer A 'Public Service,' But A Judge Disagreed
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 8, 2021
The TV networks and the judge believe Locast was just another ...
- Even Paid Content Viewers Are Surprisingly Ad-Tolerant
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, September 3, 2021
Roughly 40% to 55% of consumers who pay for video/TV content a ...
- MSNBC, CNN See Slight Viewing Declines In August, Fox News Channel Grows By Double Digits
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 1, 2021
The big change leading to Fox's upswing was high interest in T ...
- Analysis: Premium Streamers Lose $80 Million In 'Churn' Loss In April
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, August 30, 2021
HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu and Disney+ lost a combined $80.2 million ...
- Forecast: 2022 Midterm Political Ads To Hit $7.8 Billion; Broadcast TV Up 30% To $3.8 Billion
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, August 26, 2021
Kantar notes that its estimate is a more conservative industry number, "n ...
- High Marks for Grammarly's Production-Free Ad Campaign
The MediaPost Cases, Lisa Singer - Tuesday, August 31, 2021
What do you do when a client asks you to produce ...