- Non-Scripted Content Is Big Ad Advantage For Discovery/Scripps
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 16, 2018
Heading into the upfront, one positive factor for much of Discovery/Scripps network ...
- Olympics, Super Bowl Boost NBC And Broadcast Nets' February C3 Numbers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 16, 2018
NBC's Winter Olympics in February helped lift overall C3 ratings for a ...
- Major TV Networks Profit From OTT Marketplace Advantage
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 19, 2018
Since the 2016 election, TV news networks have been the rare grow ...
- Traditional Pay TV Loses 4% Subscribers In 2017, Virtual Pay TV Rises
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 15, 2018
Cable operators lost an estimated 986,411 video subscribers, which Kagan says ...
- A+E Touts Female Storytellers At Upfront
Television News Daily, Alex Weprin - Friday, March 16, 2018
Queen Latifah, Toni Braxton, Kristin Davis, Olivia Munn, Marcia Clark and Le ...
- Disney's Global Advertising Reports To New Direct-To-Consumer Business Segment
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Veteran Disney executive Kevin Mayer has been named chairman of the n ...
- A+E's Dubuc Resigns, Raven Returns As Acting CEO
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 12, 2018
Heading into the key upfront advertising season, the most senior executive ...
- Network News Tops $4 Billion, Cable's Big 3 Get Even Bigger
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Sunday, March 11, 2018
President Trump may trash major TV news networks as "failing" and "fa ...
- If People Love Fake News, Should Marketers Care?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 12, 2018
A study by MIT says false news stories are 70% more like ...
- Discovery Eyes Direct OTT Offering, Legacy TV Firms Lock In Streaming Strategies
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, March 7, 2018
A Discovery OTT service would enter an increasingly crowded field. Viacom wi ...
- Q4 TV Affiliate/Retrans Revenues Up, National Ads Down
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Total broadcast retransmission revenues and cable network carriage fees grew 8.5% ...
- Nickelodeon Adds Augmented Reality To Mobile Properties
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Nickelodeon's Sky Whale app, its most popular mobile property, is getting ...
- TV Nets Cut Ad Time, And Time-Shifting May Be To Blame
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 7, 2018
As offline media consumption has risen -- and advertising dollars shift ...
- ESPN Names Digital Disney Vet Pitaro Permanent Chief
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 5, 2018
Pitaro will have the title of president at ESPN, as well ...
- NBC To Reduce Prime-Time Ad Load By 10%
Television News Daily, Alex Weprin - Wednesday, February 28, 2018
In total, more than 50 prime-time shows across the NBC broadcast netwo ...
- Discovery Gets Government Approval For Scripps Deal
Television News Daily, Alex Weprin - Tuesday, February 27, 2018
In a statement, Discovery said the DOJ had concluded its investigation in ...
- Amazon Expected To Spend $5 Billion On Video Content This Year
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Friday, February 23, 2018
"Video helps with Prime conversions and retention," JPMorgan's Doug Anmuth wrote ...
- Ad Market Surges 11% In January
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 23, 2018
The U.S. ad market's big January gains were mostly due to gai ...
- Everyone Loves High TV Ratings -- Even The NRA
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 23, 2018
Yes, TV networks like high ratings. But as viewers know, TV networ ...
- Disney's 'Black Panther' Spends $37 Million On National TV Ads
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 21, 2018
The Marvel-produced movie earned a massive $235 million in U.S. box offi ...
- Fox News To Launch OTT 'Opinion Platform' This Year
Digital News Daily, Alex Weprin - Tuesday, February 20, 2018
The programming focus will be opinion shows that take a deep di ...
- AT&T Not Entitled To White House Communications About Time Warner Merger
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 20, 2018
The ruling comes a month before AT&T and the DOJ are slat ...
- Comcast Shows Off 'Heroes Behind The Mask'
Marketing Daily, Aaron Baar - Tuesday, February 20, 2018
On the heels of "Black Panther" (and in honor of Black Histo ...
- National TV Ad Minutes Rise, Up Nearly 4% Per Hour
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, February 20, 2018
In January, the average number of national TV advertising minutes per ho ...
- Charter Must Face False Advertising Suit Over Broadband Speeds
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, February 18, 2018
A New York state judge has refused to dismiss Attorney General Er ...
- CBS Records Higher Revenues, No Word On Viacom Merger
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 15, 2018
Content licensing and distribution revenues were revenue generators -- up 33% ...
- Viacom Reports Lower Q1 Ads, Affiliate Revenues
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 8, 2018
Although its MTV network continues to witness ratings gains, U.S. advertising f ...
- Viacom To Launch New Programming Service
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, February 9, 2018
Viacom's new service will include programming from all its networks -- includi ...
- Time Warner Revenues Up 9% In Q4
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 1, 2018
Time Warner's Turner TV unit had slight improvements in advertising revenues a ...
- Netflix's 'Grace and Frankie' Leads Deserve Better
TV Watch, Fern Siegel - Thursday, February 1, 2018
The Netflix hit "Grace and Frankie," starring Lily Tomlin and Jane Fond ...