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Study: Online TV Viewing No Serious Commercial Factor Yet
9 hours ago
Online video viewing may have surged 35 percent and DVR usage may have risen 21 percent over the past year, but 99 percent of video viewing occurred in front of a TV set using neither of those delivery methods, according to a study by Nielsen Media Research. The average viewer watched only 31 minutes of TV via DVR playback in a typical week versus 31 hours of traditional TV viewing, the study said. Online viewing was even less -- just 22 minutes per week. As for mobile video -- that amounted to just three minutes. But the times they are a-changin', Nic Covey, who has the title of "Director of Insights" for Nielsen, suggested in a statement. "Americans today have an insatiable appetite for not only content, but also choice," he said. "Across all age groups, we see consumers adding the Internet and mobile devices to their media diet -- consuming media anytime and anywhere possible. »
Lambert Invited To ABC’S “The View”
9 hours ago
Adam Lambert, who was kicked off ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live and Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve show, has found himself welcome at ABC's The View. "Hey friends! I will be performing and hanging w the ladies of ABC's The View Thursday the 10th!" Lambert tweeted on Monday. His appearance was confirmed on the show itself by co-host Barbara Walters, whose Barwell Productions co-produces The View with ABC Daytime. She noted, however, that unlike most episodes of the show, Lambert's will be taped in advance "because people seem to be afraid of what he'll do." The View panelist Sherri Shepherd couldn't hide her amusement at Walters's announcement. "Why?" she asked. "Is he gonna take one of our heads and grind it into his crotch?"
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How Will Comcast Deal Affect NBC News?
9 hours ago
Former Hard Copy host Barry Nolan, who became an anchor for Comcast Cable's CN8 channel -- and was fired by Comcast after protesting a local Emmy award to Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly -- has spoken out against the Comcast-General Electric deal that will see NBC come under Comcast's control. In an interview with today's (Tuesday) Los Angeles Times, Nolan, who is suing Comcast, remarked, "Suppose Bill O'Reilly complains to [Comcast CEO Brian] Roberts about Keith Olbermann or Brian Williams. ... What happens to them?" A Comcast executive responded, "Barry Nolan was not fired for expressing his opinion as a journalist or for anything he did or said on the air. ... He was fired for repeated violations of company's policies and rules and insubordination."
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Univision To Launch Miami Production Studio
9 hours ago
Univision, the largest Spanish-language network in the U.S., said Monday that it is launching its own production studio in Miami where it will produce primetime "telenovelas," reality shows and Internet videos. Presently, it relies on Mexico City-based Grupo Televisa for much of its programming. However, its contract with the Mexican producer runs out in 2017. In an interview with today's (Tuesday) Los Angeles Times, Univision President César Conde remarked that the studio represents "one of our biggest priorities and we will put in the blood, sweat and corporate resources that are needed to make sure this is a success."
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“Nightline” Now Beats Rivals Even Among Adults 18-49
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ABC's Nightline, which once faced the threat of extinction if ABC made a deal to hire Jay Leno after he left the Tonight show, now finds itself not only beating David Letterman and Conan O'Brien in the ratings but on some nights even topping Leno's primetime audience. (On Monday night, Leno drew only a 1.3 rating, appreciably below the 1.5 rating that the network has said it needs in order just to break even on the show.) Daily Variety observed today (Tuesday) that during the November sweeps, Nightline not only drew bigger overall ratings than its competitors but for the first time also edged past them among viewers 18-49 as well. Meanwhile, ratings for Tonight have plummeted, the trade paper observed, with its overall audience now down by half and its 18-49 viewers reduced by 25 percent.
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Still Little Unity Between AFTRA And SAG
7 December 2009 11:34 AM, PST
With negotiations on new TV and movie labor contracts set to begin in less than 10 months, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild have yet to take formal steps to agree on joint bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Daily Variety observed today (Monday). "We've had a lot of internal discussion about joint negotiations but we haven't formalized anything," AFTRA President Roberta Reardon told the trade publication. Reardon implied that AFTRA members may have some misgivings about teaming up with SAG, which is deeply divided between members who would like to form a single performers union and those who oppose such a merger and who believe AFTRA undermined SAG's own dealings with the AMPTP during the last round of collective bargaining. "We would [engage in joint negotiations] if it were something that's to the advantage of all our members," she told Variety. SAG declined to comment on her remarks. »
Fox Hires Lambert For Live-TV Gig
7 December 2009 11:33 AM, PST
Apparently Fox has few qualms about putting Adam Lambert back on live television. The network announced today (Monday) that Lambert will appear on the season finale of So You think You Can Dance, scheduled to air on December 16. It will mark the controversial performer's first appearance on the network since he was announced as the No. 2 finalist in last season's American Idol last May. The dance contest is produced jointly by 19 Entertainment, which also produces American Idol, and Dick Clark Productions, which, along with ABC, yanked Lambert from an appearance on Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve show scheduled to air on December 31.
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“Monk” Goes Out With A Blast
7 December 2009 11:15 AM, PST
The series finale of Monk went out impressively Friday night, setting a ratings record for a series episode on basic cable. The USA Network comedy-cum-detective-drama drew about 9.4 million viewers of which 3.2 million were adults 18-49, the group compulsively courted most obsessively by advertisers. By contrast not one show that aired on the broadcast networks Friday night drew as many viewers. The highest-rated show on the broadcast nets was CBS's Ghost Whisperer with 8.23 million viewers. And Fox, airing back-to-back hour-long episodes of the canceled Dollhouse, averaged just 2.05 million viewers for the entire night.
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Under Deal With Comcast, Ge Must Continue To Spend Big On NBC
7 December 2009 11:13 AM, PST
Ge's deal with Comcast to share ownership of NBC Universal contains a clause guaranteeing that Ge will continue as NBC's No. 1 advertiser, Advertising Age reported today (Monday), citing filings with the SEC. According to the trade publication, the clause commits Ge to spend "no less than $59 million of gross advertising" on NBC's broadcast and cable properties each year -- plus an additional $50 million for the 2012 Olympics. Suggesting that NBC may have been more costly to Ge than previously believed, AdAge reported that during the first nine months of this year, Ge took money from one pocket and put it into another, as it spent a whopping $145.9 million in ads on NBC properties -- and that was down 16.6 percent from last year -- mostly using funds from Universal's ad budget to promote movies and DVDs on the NBC broadcast network and its sibling cable outlets.
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Critics’ Choice Awards Becomes Critics’ Choice Movie Awards
7 December 2009 11:10 AM, PST
The Broadcast Film Critics Association is changing the name of its annual awards ceremony to the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, adding the word "Movie" to the title. "It dawned on us that for a show that's broadcast on VH1 and called the Critics' Choice Awards, we had to let them know it was a movie awards show," BFCA President Joey Berlin told Daily Variety. "It was a slap-on-your-forehead moment." The BFCA, composed of critics working in television, radio, and online, claims to be the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada with 240 members. In other awards news, director Duncan Jones's Moon, starring Sam Rockwell in multiple roles, was voted best film at the British Independent Film Awards. Jones, who is the son of legendary singer David Bowie, also received the Best Debut Director prize.
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