“With five years of discovery and surprises, the format really did create credible stars. But this year, with every round Sanjaya stayed in the competition, viewers began questioning the voting process. And that doubt dampens passion—and ratings.” Ray Solley, cable…
Pay-Per-View Bout Proves Fights a Hot Ticket
New media may only be a small slice of revenues for the leading U.S. media companies, including News Corp., Walt Disney Co. and Viacom Inc., but digital initiatives are growing by more than 30 percent a year, fueled by everything…
Research Shows 11 Percent Response Rate
All pay television systems—cable, satellite and telco—use conditional access (CA) systems to make video services available to consumers. Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology works alongside CA to add business rules that accompany the video content. These rules might describe attributes…
Upheaval Hits Net, Successor Talk Swirls
ABC’s dramatic story this season played like the roller-coaster fortunes of a protagonist from one of its female-centric soaps. The network took the biggest gambles of the fall by moving “Grey’s Anatomy” to Thursday night and passing NFL “Monday Night…
Perpetual Hispanic television underdog Telemundo enters the upfront fray with some challenges this year, having dropped a steep 20 percent among adults 18 to 49 during the past season. The network averaged a 0.4 compared with Univision’s 1.6. The NBC…
Broadcast Viewership Plummeting Across the Board as the Networks Gather in New York for Annual Pitch to Advertisers
Fox Wins Week in Key Demo; CBS Takes Total Viewers