Well, there was nobody in the stands on Sunday but millions of people watched the debut weekend of the USFL aver Saturday and Sunday. With games simulcast on Fox, NBC and Peacock there were lots of opportunities for people to stumble across it. Peacock has had its ups and downs so far, like most new…

CNN+ Wishes it was Quibi. one month. That’s what the lifetime $2.99 early bird pricing got early adopters, all 6 of them. OK I made that number up. But when news broke that the service was averaging 10,000 viewers a day eyebrows were raised. CNN announced that the streaming service is shutting down on April…

 The Gauge, the monthly total TV and streaming snapshot from Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN), showed that streaming captured its largest share of total television usage ever in March, making up nearly 30% of overall viewing time. Despite a 0.7% decrease in time spent streaming from February, viewing share across all streaming platforms was either flat or…

During the latest Netflix earnings call, Reed Hastings said something that could shake the industry. “Think of us as quite open to offering even lower prices with advertising as a consumer choice,” Hastings said. That’s right. Netflix is talking about offering an ad-supported service after years of being available exclusively as an ad-free streamer. The…

Ahead of NAB next week, Parks Associates announced the latest update of its Consumer Insights Dashboard, an ongoing service that tracks adoption of consumer electronic devices and services through its quarterly surveys of 10,000 US internet households. The firm’s Consumer Electronics Dashboard, published biannually, reveals that out of the top five brands, Sony showed clear growth among…