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A&E’s Live PD topped the rankings of TV shows watched both on DVR or on demand, and Friends, a sitcom that keeps finding new life 15 years after its finale aired on NBC, finished among the top 10 shows watched live. The numbers were reported Thursday by Vizio’s smart-TV data and analytics unit Inscape, which tracks…

A few days after Apple held its high-profile unveiling of new iPhones and watches, streaming it on Twitter, Amazon responded by … sending out several press releases. Contained in those releases, however, was significant news of more than 70 new devices, features and tools for its Fire, Alexa and Echo systems, all of…

Even though it airs live on Friday and Saturday nights, with a studio panel assessing police pursuits in real time, A&E’s Live PD ranked as the most DVRd show of 2017. That’s one key finding in a tally of second-by-second viewing last year in 7.7 million households across OTT, on-demand, DVR and live viewing by…

It’s time to say goodbye, sort of, to the company whose pioneering DVR introduced consumers to time shifting and ad skipping. Some 17 years after it went public, TiVo just became a part of Rovi with the closing of a $1.1 billion cash and stock acquisition deal they made in May — but with the buyer now adopting the…

At least a day according to 27.7% of DVR users surveyed by TiVo last month — with 10.9% voting for at least two days and 22.7% supporting even longer. On the flip side, 22.5% would wait less than a day, including 12.6% who say everything’s fair game the instant a show airs. (Some 16.6% don’t care.) It’s more than just…

TiVo has a special relationship with the International CES. In 1999, the company helped to popularize the reputation of what was then known as the Consumer Electronics Show as a showcase for cutting-edge technology when it introduced visitors to the DVR. The device promised to revolutionize television by divorcing TV…

The $7.99-a-month streaming service appears to have dampened many consumers’ interest in DVRs, which cost $10 or more a month,  according a study out this morning from Leichtman Research Group. It shows DVR growth plateauing: 47% of households have one vs 45% last year and 44% in 2011. (It was 23% in 2007.) That’s…

This could be an important development, and not just for Cablevision customers. Cable execs have been keeping an eye on the company’s efforts to pioneer the cloud-based DVR, which gives subscribers the ability to use a conventional cable box — without a hard drive — to record shows and fast forward through the ads. <a href="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/cablevision__130523223606.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…

For decades, TV networks’ promo campaigns for new series had been focused squarely on bringing in viewers to the shows’ premieres. For the first time, Fox last week broke tradition, swapping the tune-in ads for its midseason drama The Following starring Kevin Bacon for billboards urging viewers to set their DVRs.<a href="http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/promo-campaign-for-new-fox-drama-the-following-embraces-dvr-viewing/tss1_setdvr_6days_kevin_400x1400_la/" rel="attachment wp-att-408904"…

“There is no way to sugarcoat this: broadcast has taken a beating,” Nomura Securities’ Michael Nathanson says this morning in his quarterly report on primetime TV viewing. He assesses the market the way most networks and advertisers do — folding in DVR views of a show up to three days after a live broadcast (known in…

TiVo’s business model seems to be based on suing companies for selling DVRs that allegedly use its patented processes to do things that users take for granted such as watching one show while recording another. And today it challenged a formidable opponent: Time Warner Cable, which has 12M subs, is the No. 2 cable…

Is this week a glimpse into the near future of what broadcast TV’s fast national ratings will look like? All week, HUT (households using television) levels have been on par or even slightly higher than last week (with the exception of Valentine’s Day.) And yet, there have been massive across-the-board ratings declines…