- The Limits Of POOR Points
TV Board, Mark Lieberman - Tuesday, April 26, 2011
In last week's column I wrote about the television industry's continued sear ...
- Departing Couric: News Anchors Have A Shorter Shelf Life -- With More Entropy
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, April 26, 2011
These jobs aren't forever, Katie Couric told David Letterman recently. Being t ...
- Cable Upfront Should be Strong, But For Some More Than Others
TVBlog, David Goetzl - Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Analysts are projecting a stellar cable upfront, with one suggesting parity wi ...
- Spectacles: The Next Generation
Video Insider, Karen Herman - Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Almost 30 years ago, on July 29, 1981, 750 million people worldwi ...
- Netflix Set To Whip Comcast
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Monday, April 25, 2011
In the battle for entertainment subscriptions, video should pass cable TV a ...
- Broadcast Falters, But NBA Scores For TNT
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, April 22, 2011
The NBA early-round playoffs have performed for TNT. So far, TNT's ni ...
- DirecTV VOD Releases Movies 60 Days Post-Release
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Friday, April 22, 2011
DirecTV started up its controversial "premium VOD" film service on April ...
- Fox Finds New Way To Outfox Regional TV Sports Competitors
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 25, 2011
Influencing friends and business partners -- that's what it comes down ...
- ESPN.com Undergoes Blackout During High Traffic Time
TVBlog, David Goetzl - Monday, April 25, 2011
It could have been a frantic couple of hours for Disney enginee ...
- Who Will Air The Emmys? Answer Still Unclear
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Friday, April 22, 2011
Yes, the Primetime Emmys will definitely air Sept. 18 -- but it ...
- Networks Court Tweeters With On-Screen Hashtags
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Friday, April 22, 2011
Cable and broadcast networks have begun adding Twitter hashtags to the bott ...
- What's Behind USA Network's 'Blue-Skies' Formula
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Friday, April 22, 2011
"Aspirational, blue skies, upbeat, optimistic and character-driven." Those are the guidelines f ...
- Upfront: Cable Nets Expected To Take In $9.2B
MediaDailyNews, David Goetzl - Thursday, April 21, 2011
A Barclays Capital report continues the trend of forecasting a stellar upfro ...
- TV Ads Hit $69B In '10, Digital Viewing Up
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 21, 2011
With TV's upfront advertising market only weeks away, Nielsen says a numb ...
- Cable Networks Could Lead The Upfront -- But Still Be Behind
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, April 22, 2011
What would be the psychological effects of cable's upfront ad revenues matchi ...
- ESPN Deserves Credit For Showing Some Humility
TVBlog, David Goetzl - Friday, April 22, 2011
Even as it's constantly accused of acting with a certain hubris ...
- Hoover's ABC Boycott: Maybe Bogus, But 'Genius' PR
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Hoover got lots of publicity earlier this week when it announced t ...
- Viacom Hits 'Sweet Spot' With Ratings Surges, Stock Upswing
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Viacom stock hit its highest price since the company split from C ...
- 'I Love Lucy' Writer Marilyn Pugh Davis Dead At 90
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Marilyn Pugh Davis, a female TV sitcom pioneer as one of t ...
- How ESPN's New Endorsement Rules Fall Short
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Poynter Review Project's Kelly McBride and Regina McCombs analyze ESPN's new endorseme ...
- 'Glee' Star Sells Kids' Pilot To Disney Channel
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Chris Colfer, who plays Kurt on "Glee," apparently can write as we ...
- Crown Media Names Bennington Distribution Director
MediaDailyNews, - Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Crown Media Networks named Sean Bennington director of distribution, the newly designat ...
- Correction: Sandy Brown Heads Univision Deportes
MediaDailyNews, - Wednesday, April 20, 2011
In the April 20, Media Daily News story "Conrad to Head N ...
- BET 'Game': Ramps Up Original TV, Web Shows
MediaDailyNews, David Goetzl - Wednesday, April 20, 2011
BET said it would order up another season of former CW seri ...
- TV One Ad Sales Up 40%, Develops Original Series
MediaDailyNews, David Goetzl - Wednesday, April 20, 2011
As Comcast moves to take a larger stake in the network, ...
- NBC Preempts Late-Night To Push 'Voice'
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, April 20, 2011
NBC, which is heavily marketing "The Voice," will do an unusual late-nig ...
- Set-Top-Box Lexicon: The PVR And DVR
TV Board, Jane Clarke - Thursday, April 21, 2011
Once called Personal Video Recorders, Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) enable viewers ...
- Show Nurturing Is No Longer The Nature Of TV Business As Survival Or Demise Comes Quickly
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 21, 2011
The business of television nurturing still seems to be looking for ...
- NBC Should Encourage Trump to Seek White House
TVBlog, David Goetzl - Thursday, April 21, 2011
NBC executives looking to turn a Donald Trump race for the Whi ...
- ESPN Rejects Gambling Sites, Poker Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, April 19, 2011
On the heels of federal indictments against three big Internet gambling companie ...