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Fox News leads election night amid uncertain outcome

There is no final result to the presidential election in sight at time of writing, but the primetime tune-in numbers show that Fox News was the clear winner in the US with 11.6 million households between 7pm and 2am eastern, according to data from Samba TV. CNN was second with 10.7 million households, followed by […]

November 4, 2020

Viu expands MENA offering

OTT service Viu has tied up programming from FOX+ and is now offering an expanded service for MENA viewers. Viu is Hong Kong-based and backed by PCCW. It is available in 16 markets across Asia, Africa and the Middle East including Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, […]

November 3, 2020By Chris Forrester

NBCU’s Peacock goes live in US

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, has officially launched in the US offering consumers across the country a collection of live and on demand programming from NBCUniversal and beyond. Unlike most of its competitors, Peacock will offer a free ad-supported tier – although premium subscription plans are available. At launch, Peacock offers more than 20,000 hours of […]

July 15, 2020

2nd next-gen transmitter for Phoenix Model Market

Another chapter in the rollout of next-generation TV service in the US is being written in the collaborative Phoenix Model Market, with the launch of ATSC 3.0 signals from KASW-TV (CW). The station becomes the second TV transmission source in the nation’s 11th largest TV market. Phoenix now has two ATSC 3.0 transmission towers whose […]

July 9, 2020

FOX News has ‘most-watched week’

FOX News Channel (FNC) continued its reign as the most-watched network in basic cable across with news coverage of the nationwide protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, according to Nielsen Media Research. During the week of June 1st through June 7th, FNC delivered 2 million viewers and 415,000 in the 25-54 demographic in […]

June 10, 2020