- Starz Rebrand, New Messaging Unifies Its Pay TV Network Brands
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 28, 2016
Beginning April 5, pay cable TV network group Starz will rebrand wi ...
- What Does FCC Want From Charter/TWC Merger?
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Monday, March 28, 2016
Don't mess with streamers, for one. The FCC seems agreeable to th ...
- Nielsen Shaves 2.5% Off Cable Nets, Erosion Appears To Be Accelerating
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, March 28, 2016
In what appears to be an ongoing battle of attrition, cable networ ...
- Majority Of TV Consumers Want 'Skinny' Package, Less Than 20 Channels
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 22, 2016
A strong majority of TV consumers want to pick the channels f ...
- TV Usage Falls In February; OTT Grows Overall
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 22, 2016
TV usage fell in February -- with overall over-the-top internet TV viewi ...
- NBCU Starts Content Studio For Branded Advertisers' Content
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 21, 2016
Content is tailored for each individual platform, and marketers can also u ...
- Pop's Upfront Pitch: We're Growing, And Our Competitors Are Not
MediaDailyNews, Adam Buckman - Monday, March 21, 2016
The year-old Pop network is touting its first-year growth, and taking dire ...
- Viacom Inks Big Cross-Platform Deal With comScore
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, March 18, 2016
Viacom will look to capitalize on comScore's cross-platform measurement tools and advanc ...
- Turner Plans At Least Two Subscription Services
Around the Net in Video, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, March 18, 2016
Turner's Dave Levy and John Martin tell reporters the cable programmer wi ...
- U.S. Ad Spend Up 10% In February, TV And Digital Climb
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 17, 2016
Amid overall double-digit percentage U.S. advertising spending gains for February, TV's syndicatio ...
- Comcast Defends 'Stream TV' To FCC
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 18, 2016
Comcast argues in a new FCC filing that Stream TV doesn't ha ...
- Nat Geo Leaps Into Upfront Season With Programming On A Global Scale
MediaDailyNews, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, March 15, 2016
From Ron Howard on "Mars" to David Letterman in India, National Geograph ...
- Broadcast CPMs Rebound In February, Rise To Highest Level Since 2013
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, March 14, 2016
After crashing in January, broadcast advertising costs rose to their highest Februa ...
- Cable Companies Will Raise Subscription Prices, If FCC Unlocks Set-Top Boxes
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 11, 2016
If cable companies can no longer rake in $20 billion a ye ...
- Turner Sports, Snapchat Team To Let Fans Use Brand Logos
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 10, 2016
Turner Sports and Snapchat, the video/photo social media platform, are starting ...
- Hallmark Cards Intends To Take Crown Media Private
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Hallmark Cards, which holds a 90.3% stake in Crown Media Holdings ...
- SVOD Reaches Critical Mass, Penetrates Half Of U.S. Homes
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 8, 2016
As subscription video-on-demand services have grown -- now with more than ...
- At Upfront, Game Show Network Outlines Winning Strategy: Produce More Originals
MediaDailyNews, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, March 8, 2016
GSN officials boldly vowed to stay the course and continue with t ...
- MSNBC Makeover And The White House Race
TV Everywhere, J. Max Robins - Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Last April, when Andy Lack returned to NBC to take the rei ...
- Viacom Upfront Combines TV Land, CMT, Nick At Nite Into One Big 'Family'
MediaDailyNews, Adam Buckman - Friday, March 4, 2016
A group of seemingly disparate Viacom cable networks came together for t ...
- At Long Last: Emmys For YouTube Shorts
VidBlog, P.J. Bednarski - Thursday, March 3, 2016
The Television Academy will create new categories to honor short videos; the ...
- Local TV Advertisers Confirm "Excellent" ROI
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Wednesday, March 2, 2016
... Of special note, says the report, 85% of all advertisers confirm ...
- The Beat Of The Drumpf Is Only So Loud
TV Everywhere, J. Max Robins - Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Last time I checked, almost 14 million people had watched on YouTu ...
- Turner Broadcasting Turns To IBM's Watson For Predictive Analytics
Around the Net in Real-Time, Tobi Elkin - Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Turner Broadcasting will use IBM’s Watson platform to help its advanced ...
- Charter Merger Could Curtail Options For Online Video, Lawmaker Warns
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Charter's plan to acquire Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks ...
- Fewer Ads For TV Networks? Where's The Bottom Line?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Traditional cable TV networks -- and others -- are looking to ma ...
- Netflix Family TV -- Next Up: Sports? Reality TV? Afternoon Talk?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, February 29, 2016
Netflix is pushing into more family-oriented TV. But this is nothing ne ...
- Pay TV Industry Records Positive Q4 Subscriber Efforts
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 25, 2016
For the first time in nearly two decades, cable TV pay subscribe ...
- This Fall, All NBCU Inventory Will Be Available Programmatically
Around the Net in Real-Time, Tobi Elkin - Thursday, February 25, 2016
Linear TV is going programmatic. Starting this fall, NBCUniversal said it wou ...
- Are TV Networks' Viewer Declines NPX-Related?
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 24, 2016
TV networks have now witnessed their first double-digit percentage declines since Niels ...