- ESPN To Eliminate 500 Positions, Including 300 Currently Filled Jobs
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 5, 2020
ESPN chairman cited COVID's impacts, ESPN's need to focus on multichannel, D ...
- Comcast, Walmart Exploring Smart-TV Deal: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, November 5, 2020
CEO Brian Roberts recently said Comcast wants to integrate its X1 vid ...
- 2020 Election Night Viewers Fall 20% From 2016, Despite Inclusion Of OOH And CTV
Marketing Politics Weekly, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
The audience of election night news coverage of this year's election fe ...
- Sinclair Posts Massive $4.2B Q3 Loss, Points To RSN Issues, Changes In Consumer Behavior
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Results were impacted by RSN issues including subscriber erosion, loss of t ...
- NFL Down 8% In Average Game Viewership Due To Sports TV Overload
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Analysts and network execs attribute the decline to sports TV competition overlo ...
- Election Night TV Viewing, Including CTV And OOH, Down 20% To 56.9M Viewers Vs. 2016
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
For this year's election, 21 networks aired results with a Nielsen-measured 56 ...
- Showtime's 'Moonbase': Three Stooges Not In Orbit
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, November 5, 2020
Three bumblers are supposedly training for a colonizing mission to the moo ...
- Fox Corp. Quarterly Ad Revenues Down 7% Due To Fewer Sports Events, Scripted Programming
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
While Fox News Media saw strong ad revenue gains, overall Fox Cor ...
- New Titanic Documentary Asks: Could All Lost Have Been Saved?
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, November 4, 2020
A new documentary suggests that a nearby "mystery ship" may have be ...
- The Fox-Trump Industrial Complex: Why It's Bad For America
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
The President's interview on Fox News Election Day morning marks his 100 ...
- AMC Networks' Revenues Sink 9%, Distribution, Advertising See Double-Digit Declines
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 2, 2020
Although AMC Networks' revenue declines were less than expected, analysts remained concern ...
- Former GroupM, Comscore Execs Start Media Measurement Firm HyphaMetrics
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 2, 2020
The company looks to track all TV screens and devices into ...
- Local Cable, Video Ad Sales Co. Viamedia Sees Sharp Rise In Political Advertising
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 2, 2020
TV messaging from local cable and broadcast is replacing earned media fr ...
- Election Night: Cable News Networks See Ad-Unit Price Hikes, 2x Higher Vs. 2016
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Preliminary pricing for a 30-second ad unit in prime time on C ...
- In The Age Of COVID, CBS Premieres Kidney-Transplant Comedy
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
"B Positive" is CBS's sole new comedy for the COVID-delayed fall seaso ...
- Apple TV App, Vudu To Launch On New Xbox X And S, As Game Consoles Grab More Streaming Time
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, November 3, 2020
In Q3, Xbox One accounted for 48% of game consoles' total vid ...
- YouTube TV Subs Pass 3M; YouTube Q3 Ad Revenue Up 32%, Google Up 9%
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 2, 2020
YouTube TV is now the second-largest vMVPD next to Hulu. Google a ...
- IMDb TV Snags Judge Judy
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 2, 2020
The new show's name and start date haven't been revealed, but Amaz ...
- Record $8.15 Billion Spent In Political Ads As Election Day Nears
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 30, 2020
Total political ad spending -- TV, radio, and digital -- is n ...
- Nielsen Sells Global Connect To Advent International For $2.7B
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 2, 2020
As part of the deal, Nielsen will give Nielsen Global Connect ...
- Zenith: Video Entertainment Ad Spending Crashed This Year, Will Remain Flat Until 2022
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Monday, November 2, 2020
While video entertainment ad spending will fall 0.2% this year in t ...
- WWE Grows Media Revenues 19%, Live Events Slammed
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 30, 2020
Although WWE's live events remain curtailed, revenue from its TV shows a ...
- Charter Sees Another Rare Video Subscriber Increase In Q3, Video Revenue Down
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 30, 2020
Charter had more business from lower-priced video packages and lower pay-per-view a ...
- Disney Promotes Debra OConnell To Head Networks
Television News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, November 2, 2020
Budget and business strategy execs will now report to OConnell, instead ...
- COVID Alert: 'The Good Doctor' Is On The Case
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Monday, November 2, 2020
To COVID or not to COVID? That is the question for o ...
- Project OAR Expects To Begin Live Campaigns Before Year's End
Advanced TV Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, October 30, 2020
Project OAR, which had targeted a mid 2020 launch prior to t ...
- While Ad Spending Crashed For Most News Media During Pandemic, Fox News Rallied 41%
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, October 29, 2020
With the exception of Fox News Channel, ad sales for major cab ...
- This Just In From The Mars News Channel...
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Friday, October 30, 2020
A startling insight from Ipsos suggests many Americans won't accept the outco ...
- NBCU Completes Upfront, Sees Q3 Ad Revenues Decline
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 29, 2020
NBCU has completed its upfront, with "strong volume commitments and higher prici ...
- Connected TV Viewing Climbs 57%, Smart TV Platforms Double Streaming Viewing Share
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, October 29, 2020
Connected TV set-top-box devices continue to command the largest share of a ...