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5 hours agoThe Great Cable News Ratings Surge That Wasn't
Cable news ratings surge is misleading due to changes in Nielsen's measurement system, not actual audience growth.
Espina humorously admitted to oversleeping on a significant news day, stating, 'Breaking news, mi gente! I can't believe it.' His videos celebrated Maduro's fall but also expressed concern about the complexities of the situation.
A sitting president publicly signaling that he wants CNN sold is corrosive. It is abnormal for the White House to treat the ownership of a major news network as a matter of personal interest. When regulatory atmospherics appear to align with presidential preference, that warrants scrutiny.
That's a line that will drive the linear hardcore into testing the more addressable medium. Easing these concerns, the study compared the reliability of each platform in delivering what was paid for. BVOD was found to be the least risky of all video channels, delivering 20% variance compared with the median return. This was closely followed by linear TV with a variability of 24%.
The Dodgers are able to keep an additional $66 million every year because of how their TV deal is structured with MLB. When the organization filed for bankruptcy in 2011, the league agreed to lock in a fair market value for the rights of Dodgers baseball. Therefore, a significant portion of the $334 million the Dodgers earn annually from the deal is exempt from MLB's revenue sharing due to the bankruptcy settlement.
Press Forward made almost $23 million in grants to 22 organizations aimed at bolstering the infrastructure for local news. The grants were the culmination of a request for proposals process that began accepting applications in November 2024, and elicited 559 proposals.
From Nielsen's perspective, "we think this is a big opportunity to improve person-level measurement" and give buyers and sellers a more accurate picture of who's actually watching what, said Brian Fuhrer, SVP of product strategy and thought leadership at Nielsen.
Viewers are no longer distinguishing between linear and digital - they are choosing to tune in to what they want, where, when and how they want to watch. We must now embrace a multi-currency future, and jointly drive innovation that ensures more accurate and complete measurement approaches. Measurement needs to accurately reflect the reality of audience trends for marketers to effectively allocate their advertising investments and serve the entire ecosystem. And that will require more than one solution.
It's been one blunder after another during the early days of the Tony Dokoupil era at CBS Evening News. From night one, the flagship broadcast of the Eye's news division has been marred by technical mess-ups, bizarre attempts to suck up to the Trump administration, low-key humiliation by President Trump, and an anchor who seems to think he has earned the right to pontificate at the end of the show like he's a latter-day Cronkite.
While women outnumbered men in terms of presenters under 50, men significantly outnumbered women among the over-50s with 237 women to 394 men. It found there are nearly four times as many male presenters over 60 as female in the BBC's content division, which makes programmes. There were nearly twice as many older men than women 31 compared with 16 in BBC News. Within the nations and the English regions division, there were between three and four times as many older men as female presenters.
Two years ago at MIPCOM, Facebook released a new set of APIs for media partners in attempt to capture more of the real time conversation around TV. Since then, Facebook has made its presence felt on red carpets, backstage, and even on TODAY, where the show's Orange Room leverages Facebook's 'trending' data in segments. Today at MIPCOM, Facebook is announcing new tools for broadcasters and fans that center on the participatory aspects of live TV.
Of course I want you watching CNN and I want you listening to me on SiriusXM, but, my God, use the clicker. I don't go to bed without sampling all of the news and opinion that's all around me because it's so easy to get bunkered into, you know, a silo of your choosing and think you're getting competing opinions when, in fact, you're not.
If you've worked in a technical role in news for long enough, you likely remember when the "show your work" spirit was everywhere. Newsroom nerds shared code on GitHub, swapped tips on social media and unfurled long blogs guiding others on how to get things done. You might also have a vague sense that - like reaction GIFs, demotivational posters, and that guy who sang "Chocolate Rain" - you're seeing less of it these days.
Weiss originally postponed the segment because she believed, at present, we do not present the administration's argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who reported on the story, was furious slamming the move as a political decision and arguing that Weiss's reasoning was flawed. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story, Alfonsi wrote, in an internal memo of her own.