Total first-quarter national TV linear advertising was up 4.7% to $9.1 billion -- but taking out NBC's Winter Olympics, national TV witnessed a 2.6% drop, according to MoffettNathanson Research analysis.
Total national TV viewing continues to sink -- down 5% to 2.89 billion minutes based on total day viewing for …
I wonder if anyone knows whether taking out NBC's Winter Olympics advertising was counter-balanced by incuding an estimate of typical NBS advertising in the same slots and for the same number of days?
Simply removing it (the equivalent of NBC going-to-black) and concluding that national advertising would have been down if it wasn't for the Winter Olympics would be very misleading.
Right. seems the author had an agenda other than objective reporting.