Ratings: USA Extends Primetime Winning Streak to Eight Years; Suddenlink Closes Northland Deal
Top Stories - January 3, 2014
Ratings: USA Extends Primetime Winning Streak to Eight Years USA Network, despite sustaining 8% audience erosion, captured its eighth consecutive annual primetime victory in 2013. However, TBS ended the "characters welcome" network's run with persons 18 to 49 after seven years.more
ESPN Tackles 9% Rose Bowl Growth to 18.6M Viewers ESPN's final run with the Bowl Championship Series got off to a fast start on New Year's Day with the average audience for the Rose and Fiesta Bowls up 8% over their 2013 counterparts.more
Suddenlink Closes Northland Deal Suddenlink Communications has closed its acquisition of certain cable assets in Texas from Northland Communications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. more
Wheeler to Deliver Policy Address While On West Coast FCC chairman Tom Wheeler will appear at a town hall meeting in Oakland, Calif., on Jan. 9 to talk about the impact of media consolidation, and make a policy speech while on that West Coast swing next week.more