- 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 ...
- Powered By Netflix, Streaming's Share Soars To 46% In June
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Broadcast TV fell below a 20% share of viewing for the fir ...
- TV Network Market Glut: Midsized Cable Group Worries
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 9, 2025
A+E Global Media - co-owned 50-50% by Walt Disney and Hearst ...
- Streaming Dominates U.S. Entertainment, But Cable Still Hangs On With Older Viewers
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Monday, July 7, 2025
Just 36% of Americans subscribe to cable or satellite services, including 6 ...
- Netflix's TF1 'Carriage' Deal: Could This Happen In The US?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, June 19, 2025
Netflix struck what many defined as a U.S.-like "carriage" deal allowing t ...
- Nielsen Report Shows How Streaming Is Overwhelming Legacy TV
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, June 18, 2025
The news that streaming passed broadcast and cable TV in total ...
- Streaming Reaches Tipping Point, Beats Broadcast/Cable For First Time In May
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Total day viewing for persons two years and older hit 44.8% sha ...
- TVB: Ad-Supported Linear TV Still Tops
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Despite a recently released Nielsen viewing measure that touts streaming dominance ov ...
- Trump's Military Parade: Not So TV-Worthy
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, June 13, 2025
Don't expect to see much coverage of the Trump military parade th ...
- Disney Isn't Into Comcast, WBD's Cable Nets
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Despite massive cord-cutting, Iger says Disney has enough subscribers to generate "significa ...
- Dividing WBD In Two? Not Entirely, Analyst Says
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The proposed live, linear cable TV networks group WBD Global Networks wi ...
- WBD Slicing Away Cable Nets An Easier Split Than Comcast? Something Else?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
On the surface, and plainly, WBD keeps the good stuff - a ...
- Warner Bros. Discovery Split Is 2022 Merger In Reverse
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, June 10, 2025
WBD's decision to split itself into two separate companies represents a b ...
- WBD To Spin Off Cable Networks
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, June 9, 2025
The remaining WBD company will consist of Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bro ...
- Wieser: Network Ad Spend Down 11%, Streamers Up 26%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, June 6, 2025
Total national TV ad revenue (including CTV) will fall 6.3% in 20 ...
- 'Trust' In News: TWC, BBC, PBS, Forbes, ESPN Have It
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 30, 2025
The Weather Channel has a +49 "trust" score, followed by the BB ...