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DVR Ratings Bringing TV Networks Money

New York Times | BILL CARTER | Posted 11.01.2009 | Media


Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies...

Olbermann Versus O'Reilly: It's a Shoot

Lionel | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media


Lionel

There's something so exciting about watching something that is normally choreographed and predictable disintegrate.

Network Upfront Results Will Impact the TV Content Landscape for Decades

Jack Myers | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media


Jack Myers

This year's Upfront results will have significant impact on the future of the network television business.

CBS Threatens To Unseat Fox As Top Rated TV Network -- Despite "Idol"

Los Angeles Times | Scott Collins | Posted 04.04.2009 | Media


Thanks to "American Idol," Fox is still beating up on rivals, at least among the young viewers that advertisers crave. But the punch isn't what it onc...

Network TV Upfront Forecast: Bad News/Good News Scenarios

Jack Myers | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business


Jack Myers

The day-to-day realities facing television networks, which are certainly feeling the pain of both economic and systemic challenges, are still not that troubling.

Network TV Diversity Lacking In "Virtual Whiteout" Of Television

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media


LOS ANGELES — Nearly a decade after the NAACP condemned a "virtual whiteout" in broadcast TV, the civil rights group said major networks have st...

Network TV Profits Would Probably Increase With Nudity And Swear Words

AP, Epicenter | Posted 09.08.2008 | Business


This week has been a week of confirming what analysts had expected about Rupert Murdoch: he's making money -- but not really on TV. Chairman and Chie...

Corrupting Habit

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media


Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Since the fall of 1969, media discourse has been dominated by debates about the news as a spin zone. But we think this argument over bias has obscured a far more fundamental reality.