View Post Digital Moonves: ‘The Floodgate Is Now Open’ for OTTs By Karen Fratti on Mar. 11, 2015 - 1:13 PM "I applaud the showmanship of Apple and HBO," he said this morning.
View Post Digital CBSN is the #1 Ranked News Channel…. On Roku By Adam Flomenbaum on Feb. 6, 2015 - 10:00 AM The average CBSN viewer on Roku watches for more than two hours per week.
View Post Social TV New TV Network ‘Pop’ to Launch Its Website on Tumblr By Adam Flomenbaum on Nov. 26, 2014 - 10:30 AM Pop – a joint venture of CBS and Lionsgate that will take form as a new TV network launching in 2015 – will become the first TV network to build its primary web presence on Tumblr. The mission of Pop, formerly TV Guide Networ ...
View Post Networks | Second Screen Networks Opt Out of Obama’s Speech Because It’s #TGIT By Karen Fratti on Nov. 20, 2014 - 2:00 PM While the official excuse is that the speech will be “overtly political” and that there are straight news outlets to broadcast President Obama’s immigration reform speech, we all know the real reason networks won ...
View Post Networks Dish Customers React to Potential CBS Blackout By Karen Fratti on Nov. 17, 2014 - 1:30 PM Just in time for Thursday Night Football, CBS’s contract with Dish is set to end this Thursday, and both parties are already warning viewers of a possible blackout. CBS has a website up to inform customers, have them petitio ...
View Post Digital CBS Launches Digital News Network CBSN By Karen Fratti on Nov. 6, 2014 - 11:43 AM After announcing a subscription based streaming service last month, CBS launched an all-digital streaming news network Thursday. So now you can watch live, anchored news whenever you want, for free. Here are the features of CBS ...
View Post Networks CBS Launches Subscription Streaming Service, ‘All Access’ Today By Karen Fratti on Oct. 16, 2014 - 1:52 PM Yesterday, pigs finally flew and HBO announced that it was going to offer a standalone streaming service in 2015. Today, CBS announced a similar service called All Access, available for $5.99 a month. At the time of launch, consum ...
View Post Networks | Ratings | Social TV Predicting Fall TV’s Hits and Misses With Social Data By Karen Fratti on Sep. 8, 2014 - 9:00 AM Let the fall TV games begin. As networks start premiering new fall television shows, figuring out which shows will be the new hits on air and social media isn’t an exact science. Yet. Viralheat, a platform for monitoring soc ...
View Post Sports #ThursdayNightFootball Kicks Off On Twitter By Karen Fratti on Sep. 5, 2014 - 12:16 PM CBS rang the NYSE opening bell this morning to celebrate it’s $300 million Thursday Night Football deal. Nevermind that #TNF kicked of last night on NBC. Next week, CBS officially kicks off, going all out with a Jay-Z theme ...
View Post Networks | Research Halle Berry drives big social TV start for CBS’s ‘Extant’ By Natan Edelsburg on Jul. 14, 2014 - 9:00 AM CBS’s brand new drama, Extant recently premiered with positive social conversations surrounding. The drama features Halle Berry who plays “an astronaut who returns home from a year-long solo mission in space and tries ...