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The collapsing Boston Red Sox and suddenly struggling Rick Perry may have had worse weeks, but the past seven days have hardly been uplifting for Fox affiliates. Ratings were disappointing … Read the whole story
A week after unveiling an aggressive plan to convince the ad industry to use its new Facebook panel as the "GRP" for online advertising … Read the whole story
The TV ratings gods both gaveth and tooketh away Thursday as two unrelated stories sent the shares of Nielsen plummeting and rival Rentrak soaring. … Read the whole story
You weren't in a time warp, Bruce Horovitz assures us in USA Today, and pardon you if thinking you were while watching the likes … Read the whole story
Viacom ad growth is projected to come in below expectations in the current quarter, partly because of program scheduling matters, but the overall ad … Read the whole story
Amazon Prime -- a digital premium video competitor to Netflix and others -- just added to its stable of big TV and movies -- … Read the whole story
Social video analytics firm Visible Measures this morning said it closed on a $13 million round of financing led by DAG Ventures, but also … Read the whole story
Audi, which launched its campaign for the A6 this month with creative that shows the roads as they really are, is now focusing on … Read the whole story
With a growing variety of ways to get local news, where do people turn first to find out what's going on in their community? … Read the whole story
Over the past five years, sports programming has climbed sharply among U.S. viewers -- with reality TV programming maintaining its position at the most … Read the whole story
Time Warner Cable is looking to inject a little luxury into the television subscription space via a new ad campaign touting its nearly year-old … Read the whole story
Looking like pieces of a regular full-length TV series, carmaker Audi and FX Networks will produce a short-form series to help promote the new … Read the whole story
ABC has gained some nice lift on the first Sunday night of the new season with "Pan Am." But the troubling news for ABC … Read the whole story
DirecTV CEO Michael White said last week that a promotion giving new customers the "NFL Sunday Ticket" for free this year was designed with … Read the whole story
Perhaps the most highly touted show of the fall season, Fox's "X Factor" hit its starting note a bit flat in its season premiere … Read the whole story
Hearst Magazines and HGTV, a leading home and lifestyle brand will launch the test issue of HGTV Magazine, a new home/lifestyle publication, Oct. 4. Read the whole story
Dish Network has offered an answer to the new Netflix: Blockbuster Movie Pass. But there's a catch -- you need to be a Dish … Read the whole story
While Fox got no improvement from its highly touted "X-Factor" on its second night, the network could still crow about its first fall season … Read the whole story
While much has been made of the growth in the Hispanic population, the number of Asian-American homes is projected to be up nearly 10% … Read the whole story
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Another week, another market downturn. Economic news continues to bring the doom and gloom, and so does the outlook for the ad industry overall. … Read the whole story
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Fox Home Entertainment came out with "Star Wars: The Complete Saga" in its Blu-Ray discs -- and grabbed some $84 million dollars in a … Read the whole story
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The most interesting television news of Premiere Week 2011 is the comparative underperformance of "The X Factor," which Fox and series creator Simon Cowell … Read the whole story
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R.E.M. is breaking up the act, according to a press announcement. So I'll wait for the 41st anniversary of the band getting back together. … Read the whole story
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t's not just the buying and selling of time and eyeballs that makes a marketplace. Metrics must be used to measure the quality and … Read the whole story
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Look closer at social media numbers and TV ratings. Can you draw any conclusions? Exclusions? Fox spent much on marketing and public relations efforts … Read the whole story
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Remember the 1980s meme about how hard it is to program a VCR? So insidious was this apparent difficulty that a system was developed … Read the whole story
