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AMC Networks Record 15% Decline in National TV Ad Revenues
August 5, 2020
AMC Networks posted 15% in declining advertising revenues for its second quarter, But don’t read too much into this, says Todd Juenger, media analyst at Bernstein R...

National TV Advertising Market Trims Losses To 9% In June
August 5, 2020
National TV advertising in June declined 9% to $3.2 billion -- a much smaller decline than the two previous months, according to Standard Media Index. In April, in th...

SMI June: How covid-19 devastated business as ad spend fell off a cliff
August 4, 2020
Australia’s media industry has suffered through its worst year in living memory, with the COVID-19 pandemic inflicting a further blow to a market already weakened by a series of...

Ad spend has 'worst [financial] year in living memory', and dropped 35.7% in June
August 4, 2020
The 2019/2020 financial year was the “worst year in living memory” for Australia’s media industry, according to newly-released Standard Media Index (SMI) figures. The medi...

The Australian media industry has just had its worst year ever: SMI
August 3, 2020
Australia’s media industry has suffered through its worst year in living memory, with the COVID-19 pandemic inflicting a further blow to a market already weakened by a series of...

"Worst Year in Living Memory!" Aussie Ad Spends Plummet 14.7% in 2019/20
August 3, 2020
Australia’s media industry has suffered through its worst year in living memory, with the COVID-19 pandemic inflicting a further blow to a market already weakened by a series of...

SMI - June 2020 bookings down 35.7%
August 3, 2020
Media agency bookings closed the financial year to June down 14.7%, according to SMI (Standard Media Index) numbers. However, the fallout from COVID-19 appears to have eased wit...

Canceled College Sports Games Put Millions on the Line for ESPN
August 3, 2020
You almost feel sorry for Mark Packer and Wes Durham. The two veteran broadcasters have what might seem like dream jobs, chatting about college sports for two hours every morning f...

Seven's multiplying dramas to reduce debt
August 2, 2020
Here’s a question doing the TV industry rounds: is the nasty tycoon on Seven’s $10 million Sunday night drama, Between Two Worlds, actually based on Seven West Media chairman K...

There’s light at the end of a dark Q2 ad tunnel for sports broadcasters
July 31, 2020
WITH THE LACK OF sports programming accounting for nearly 30% of all TV ad spend losses in the second quarter of calendar 2020 due to the pandemic lockdowns, the early viewership r...

By the Numbers: How Canada’s ad slump will affect rates
July 31, 2020
The pandemic that forced us all into our homes and caused advertisers to retreat back to the drawing board has had demonstrable material effects on media properties of all kinds. W...

Corus firms up specialty with new fall premiere dates
July 30, 2020
Despite an air of uncertainty around fall TV this year, Corus has released more details on its primetime schedules for Showcase and W Network. The properties will have 10 new serie...

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