- National Amusements Kills Viacom, CBS Merger: Stocks Fall
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 12, 2016
National Amusements separated CBS and Viacom 11 years ago in an attem ...
- Discovery Invests In Digital Publisher Batanga Media
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 12, 2016
The company, which focused on content for Latin America and the U. ...
- Viewers Tweet More, But Network Tweets More Efficient
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, December 9, 2016
TV shows see the lion's share of social media activity coming fr ...
- Golden Diss Of Netflix, Amazon? Not Hardly
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, December 12, 2016
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced nominees for the Golden Globes, a ...
- Charter CEO Cheers Prospect Of Fewer Regulations Under Trump
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 8, 2016
Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge cheered the prospect of fewer regulations und ...
- Turner, Snapchat Expand Content/Advertising Partnership
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Turner will develop original shows with Snapchat from its TV series a ...
- Targeted TV Advertising Moves Forward
Programmatic Insider, John Motavalli - Wednesday, December 7, 2016
I spoke to Kristin Dolan, former COO of Cablevision, who together wi ...
- AT&T's 'Data-Free' TV Violates Net Neutrality, FCC Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 2, 2016
AT&T appears to be violating the net neutrality rules by exempting Direc ...
- Virgin Media Launches 4K Service
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, December 1, 2016
Virgin Media has launched its first 4K TV set-top box, offering fo ...
- Cable News Nets Score Strong November Results
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 30, 2016
All cable TV news networks had a strong November viewing period ...
- Fly-Over Country: Fading Basic Cable Is TV's Low-Rent District
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, December 1, 2016
There is a vast swath of basic cable that is the ...
- Pay TV Homes Dip 1.6%, Rise In Cord-Shaving
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Pay TV subscribers sank 1.6% -- "the worst gap in more th ...
- CNN Paid $25M For Beme
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, November 29, 2016
CNN is not saying how much it paid for user-generated content a ...
- TV's Reach Metric Rises For Young Viewers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 28, 2016
Major broadcast TV networks' reach metric of young consumers rose "significantly" ...
- Trump Tweets Teen's Critique Of CNN Journo
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Tuesday, November 29, 2016
On Monday, a 16-year-old Trump supporter joined the candidate's attacks on C ...
- DirecTV Now Ready, With Lots Of Plans
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, November 29, 2016
The new DirectTV Now pay service starting today is a frontal atta ...
- Sports, Political TV Fuel National TV Ad Sales In October
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 23, 2016
National TV advertising sales witnessed a strong October -- nearly 10% high ...
- The Attack Of The Skinny Bundles
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, November 25, 2016
The OTT cord-cutting opportunities abound right about now, with DirectTV and Hu ...
- AT&T/DirecTV Service Ready To Roll, Absent CBS
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Aimed at would-be cable customers, DirecTV Now is a package of mo ...
- Indie Networks' Ad Share Grows, Cable Does Best
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Independent TV networks showed a sharp rise in national commercial impressions f ...
- World Series Narrows C3 Ratings Margins
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 15, 2016
For broadcast networks, Fox helped drive the overall improvement with more Wor ...
- We'd Pay For Network TV And Take Netflix With Ads
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, November 16, 2016
A new report from Digitalsmiths and TiVo shows how much viewers wou ...
- Cable Spend Linked To Down-Ballot Success
Red, White & Blog, Philip Rosenstein - Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Cable ad spend at the national level did not make a significa ...
- Cable TV News Nets Score Big Ad Election Revenues
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 11, 2016
From October 11 through November 10, the three big cable news networ ...
- Pay TV Subscribers Decline
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 10, 2016
Pay TV subscribers were down in the third quarter by amount t ...
- Disney Files Mixed Earnings, ESPN Reports Declines
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 10, 2016
Walt Disney Co. witnessed some rocky quarterly results. Revenue was down ...
- Viacom Posts Another Rough Quarter, Ads Drop 8%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Viacom had a tough third-quarter financial period, as expected, say analysts. T ...
- CNN, Fox Post Big Election Night Results
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 9, 2016
CNN claimed its best election night among all TV networks in pri ...
- Will Trump Have A Media Enemies List?
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Many media personalities and outlets vicioulsy skewered Trump's candidacy. He got ma ...
- Scripps Networks Interactive Grabs High Ad Sales, Up 7%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 7, 2016
Scripps Networks Interactive posted higher-than-expected advertising for its fiscal third quarter. U. ...