- Scatter Premiums Signal Increased Demand Heading Into Upfront Negotiations
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, April 28, 2021
By one important measure -- the premium advertisers pay to buy short-te ...
- U.S. TV Time Viewed In Q1 Down 9%, More Declines Expected
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 26, 2021
From March 15-April 18 of this year, average broadcast viewership had ...
- Chauvin Trial, Verdict Seen By 18.4 Million Nielsen-Measured Viewers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 21, 2021
The trial coverage and verdict of Derek Chauvin took in 18.4 milli ...
- Disney To Outperform TV Marketplace, Given Sports Content
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 19, 2021
Much of this comes via ESPN and ABC -- the latter n ...
- Univision Holdings Grows Larger With $4.8 Billion Grupo Televisa Deal
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 14, 2021
The companies claim the deal will result in the largest Spanish-language med ...
- Netflix Boasts Best Monthly Churn Rate, Disney+ Comes In Second
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Netflix's percentage of existing subscribers leaving the service was a low 2. ...
- Rising D2C Video Businesses To Push Faster Broadband Subscriptions
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 12, 2021
UBS estimates total cable and telco-based services will grow 3.6% in 2 ...
- Traditional TV Time Sinks During Higher Pandemic Viewing
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 12, 2021
Broadcast and cable TV erosion is accelerating -- at least via tradition ...
- Broadband Industry Urges Appeals Court To Block California Net Neutrality Rules
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Lobbying groups for the cable and telecom industry say broadband is ...
- Time Viewed On Cable Nets Rose In 2020, Ad Concerns Remain
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 1, 2021
In 2020, live cable TV viewing grew 20% among all cable network ...
- GroupM Forecast: Total U.S. TV Ad Spend To Grow 9.3% In 2021, Medium Remains Resilient
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
This year, local TV advertising is expected to rise 16% to $19 ...
- Cable News Viewing Falls Vs. Q4, MSNBC Dominates Total Day
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Collective Nielsen-measured viewers for Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNBC were ...
- Comcast's FreeWheel, Fox TV Strike Programmatic, Addressable Set-Top-Box Deal With Auto Marketer
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 25, 2021
The companies claim this is the first VOD deal of its ki ...
- ViacomCBS, Discovery Stock Prices Drift Lower, Streamers Present Growth Issues
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The news was a turnaround for media companies moving into the streami ...
- New Name For Former President's Media Platform: Pump, Stump And Bump
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 24, 2021
It's one thing when you are the current U.S. president, calling oth ...
- What Do We Call Cable Companies Now?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Analysts have suggested an NBCU-Warner merger. The premise here is these t ...
- AT&T To End 'Data Free TV'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 17, 2021
AT&T said it will discontinue its controversial "Data Free TV" program, whi ...
- Future To Combine 'Multichannel News,' 'Broadcast+Cable'
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 16, 2021
The change will take place on April 1. The TV category ...
- Comcast TV Homes See 25% Rise In Live TV Viewing
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 11, 2021
Much of this upward trajectory came from cable TV news networks, d ...
- 'NYT,' CNN Team For Murdoch Documentary Series
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, March 9, 2021
The series is expected in 2022 and will be overseen by autho ...
- Fox's 'Loyal Opposition' Is Just Loyalty To A Good TV Marketing Scheme
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Advertisers generally don't care about marketing themes. But they do care wh ...
- Fox Corp. Won't Take On Big Media's SVOD Platforms, Looks To AVOD
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 5, 2021
"We believe we can win in the advertising video-on-demand world... in ...
- DirecTV Subs Plunged By 3M In 2020 Amid Record 5.1M Pay-TV Loss
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 5, 2021
AT&T had a net loss of about 3.26 million subscribers across i ...
- COVID-19 Swamps Upfronts For Second Straight Year
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, March 5, 2021
In years past, this week would have been the first week ...
- February Cable TV Sees Ratings Gains For MSNBC, CNN
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Fox News Channel fell 30% in prime-time ratings as its two riv ...
- Cord-Cutting Trends Up in 2020, 6 Million Subscribers Lost
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Although virtual pay TV providers grew by 20% in 2020 to 11. ...
- 'A La Carte' TV Takes On A New Meaning With Streamers
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 1, 2021
With cord cutting, it could mean giving consumers the flexibility to deci ...
- AMC Networks: Streamers' Combined 6M Subs Three Years Ahead Of Plan
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, February 26, 2021
A 157% gain in streaming subs in 2020 helped the company reali ...
- Race For TV News Viewers Tightens
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
From the beginning of the year through Feb. 19, MSNBC held ...
- ViacomCBS' Q4 Gets Boost From Streamer Ads, Overall Revenue Hits $3.5 Billion
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The bulk of streamer revenues came from CBS All Access, Showtime OT ...