"'We have had over 40 new advertisers come into the hour since we launched the new program, including some of the largest in the country and, really, across all major categories,' says Jeff Collins, executive vice president of ad sales at Fox News Media." - Variety
"For 1,350 global publishers included in Chartbeat’s data, 27% of page views coming from external, search and social in January 2018 came from Facebook (2 billion page views). In April 2023, this was down to 11% (1.5 billion)." - Press Gazette (UK)
"What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet for Gen X and older millennials who found that traditional TV programming on the broadcast networks and CNN wasn't cutting it." - The Hollywood Reporter
In the industry, some are dubbing this year’s labor action “the Netflix strike. Netflix in a lot of ways has upended the business model, and broken it in fundamental ways.” - Los Angeles Times
On the last day of April, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed a bill funding the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, calling public broadcasting an "outdated system" and complaining of indoctrination, the over-sexualization of our children." Among the pernicious influences he cited was Clifford the Big Red Dog. - Deadline
His remark on Tuesday that he may transfer NPR's primary Twitter account with nearly 9 million followers to another entity is typical of how Musk has run the social media site. - NPR
Thanks to the massivehit series The Glory and, of course, Squid Game, Netflix's Ted Sarandos has invested a lot of money into developing Korean shows that, he says, "are now at the heart of the global cultural zeitgeist.” - The New York Times
The genre of movie doesn't matter - the point is, this kind of movie is never going to sell at movie theatres. But it can grab you and keep you when it plays on streaming. - BBC
The Jerry Springer show had many iconic sounds, but one of its best-known "was added in post-production: the 1,000 hertz censor bleep, which became more prevalent as the behavior on the show grew more profane." - Fast Company
Maybe this isn't great timing - for the streamers, anyway. For instance: "On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that the company’s streaming division, including HBO Max (soon known as Max), made $50 million in profits during the first quarter of 2023." - HuffPost
Says one expert, "I was very startled by the degree to which the two sides are apart. ... It was really shocking to see how far apart they were, and how many issues the studios refused to even engage on. So in my view, this is going to be a long strike." - Vice
Wow, did that not go as planned. Apparently, Yahoo was also looking at Hulu. "Either of those, with hindsight being 20/20, would have been a better acquisition." - Variety
“We don’t agree with applying a one-size-fits-all solution to shows that are unique and different in their approach to creative staffing,” the AMPTP stated. “Some writers are the sole voice of a show and others work with only a small team. The WGA’s proposals would preclude that.” - Variety
Losses narrowed by $102 million to $235 million, for an adjusted EPS of 17 cents a share, a also ahead of expectations. Shares popped higher this morning on the numbers. - Deadline
