Sofie Sue Rutgeerts on why TV doesn’t need to reject addressability. It needs to decide what addressability is for.
Chartbeat data shows that U.S. media doesn’t embrace 2-to-5 minute video formats, but evidence elsewhere says it works ...
A year and a half ago, the emerging fight between ATSC 3.0 and 5G Broadcast looked like a classic standards war. Broadcasters had spent years building “NextGen TV” around ATSC 3.0, while a smaller ...
Local television’s traditional model is under pressure. Newsroom employment continues to decline, regional sports networks ...
The CW is becoming a strategic programming and distribution asset inside Nexstar’s much larger local-TV operation — valuable not only for what it airs, but for the leverage, optionality and reach it ...
Nothing in the entertainment industry is permanent. Trends and fads come and go as audiences prove eternally fickle. Business strategies are put forth on a revolving door until one succeeds and is ...
As regional sports networks (RSNs) continue their slow-motion collapse, every major sports league has been forced to rethink how its games reach local fans. The NBA has responded aggressively — ...
Why Rob Bonta really had no other choice and why Netflix needs to learn to ignore YouTube and be the best Netflix it can be.
This week’s Hot List isn’t immune from these ironies. We take some swipes at the current system with inherent optimism for the future of TV. I suppose in our industry, as with the rest of the world, ...
For most of television’s history, the sitcom reigned supreme. From its earliest days, it was a very recognizable format, one that gave Americans a shared cultural touchpoint, characters that felt like ...
As CTV continues to mature, premium video providers are giving advertisers new ways to navigate an increasingly fragmented media landscape with greater precision, transparency, and measurable business ...
I’m always struck by the reaction I get when I bring this up at events in the U.S. — often, its disbelief. Perhaps it stems from a sense of American exceptionalism. The U.S. can produce a lot of ...