Michelle Duke, President of the NAB’s Leadership Foundation and the NAB’s Chief Diversity Officer, recently joined Nicole Ovadia, BIA's VP of Forecasting and Analysis for a Leading Local Insights podcast interview. Michelle has been with the NAB since 2005 and…
As we muddle through the COVID-19 pandemic, station sales are not strong, especially for Radio. The following chart shows year-to-date transactions of 2020 compared to 2019. So far this year, there has not been any large television group sale as…
Local advertisers from the small local cleaners to franchisees all have a similar challenge - getting their message in front of customers on many screens and places. On average, a local business uses at least 9 different ad channels. That means working…
Small businesses who advertise on TV/Cable are heavy users of traditional media, according to our current Local Commerce Monitor™ survey of SMBs (Q3/2016). In fact, the most popular traditional channels include: cable, direct mail, community sponsorships, print yellow pages, giveaways,…
Over-the-air television advertising revenues* in Atlanta, Georgia reached $428.3 million in 2015, according to BIA/Kelsey’s new Local Competition Report on the Atlanta television market. This $428.3 million revenue estimate is broken down by owner in the pie chart above. Cox Media Group's WSB-TV (ABC) dominates the market,…
The Brand-to-local playbook is constantly changing in a multi-screen and millennial-impacted world. This was one of the underlying themes at the recent BIA/Kelsey BRANDS. One of those screens continues to be television. In fact, it's not just one screen: TV itself…
Google was the top biller in Boston in 2015, according to BIA/Kelsey’s new Local Competition Report on the Boston television market, with nearly $238 million in local advertising revenue* - more than double its nearest competitor, Hearst Television, in 2nd place…
In Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, digital* media outperformed over-the-air broadcast** in generating revenue in 2015, according to BIA/Kelsey’s new Local Competition Report for the Philadelphia television market (see chart above). Broadcast, which combines over-the-air radio and television, accounted for $855 million…
Over-the-air television advertising revenues* in Los Angeles reached $1.49 billion in 2015, according to BIA/Kelsey’s new Local Competition Report on the Los Angeles television market. This $1.49 billion revenue estimate is broken down by owner in the pie chart above. Not surprisingly, the top…
SMBs who advertise on TV/Cable have a unique profile. In our current Local Commerce Monitor survey of SMBs (Q3/2015), we find that not only are Cable/TV SMBs larger in size (average of 31 full time employees), the average TV/Cable SMB is in…
SMBs reported using an average of 7.6 different media to advertise or promote their businesses, according to BIA/Kelsey's Local Commerce Monitor, Wave 17™, down from 8.4 in Wave 16. 30% of the SMBs surveyed reported using broadcast and 57% use…
Television dominated the Government/Political/Religion ("GPR") vertical in 2012, according to BIA/Kelsey's Media Ad View Plus. In 2012, television's $3.1 billion of advertising from GPR represented nearly 3/4 of total advertising for this vertical. 2012 Government/Political/Religion Ad Spending by Media The…
In 2012, television dominated both the Automotive advertising and Government/Political/Religion ("GPR") verticals, according to BIA/Kelsey's Media Ad View Plus. More on the GPR vertical later. Television's $4.6 billion share of automotive advertising represented 28.4% of total automotive advertising in 2012.…
Today we announced our revised forecast for the television industry. Previously we had been somewhat more conservative in our estimates because it was difficult to read which way the economic winds were blowing. And while the first half of this…
Lisa Bishop at Gray Television took a few contrarian views when discussing mobile strategies, during an afternoon DSB session on “New Ad Revenues for New Times.” Taking issue with the app craze we’ve seen dominating the media world over the…
While pundits point to online and mobile media as carving away local broadcast TV’s share, TVB President Steve Lanzano points out that online and mobile have actually worked to help local TV increase its consumption numbers. With the new age…
By Steve Passwaiter and Rick Ducey For broadcasters, it is an article of faith that “localism” is a point of differentiation that adds value to their operations. Localism tends to mean local news, sports, weather, traffic, local events, coverage of…
Digital media is more cannibalistic than complementary and is seriously eating into the demand for traditional news sources such as newspapers, TV and news magazines, according to the third annual survey of news users done by Outsell Inc. The survey…