TV Networks Back New OpenAP Technology to Measure Audiences Across Screens

Stopping short of a lockdown or the addition of curfews as some other European countries have imposed recently, France is introducing new measures to combat the spread of the Omicron variant. Chief among them affecting the entertainment industry is that consuming food and drink in cinemas will be banned beginning Monday, January 3, for a period of three weeks.

The first Cold Weather Payments of the 2021/22 winter season have been triggered by a persistent drop in temperatures across Scotland between December 21 and 27.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNielsen is in the midst of a battle to count TV audiences of the future, but the company just disclosed it’s still having problems counting them in the present.The media-measurement giant informed TV networks and other clients Wednesday that it has, since September of 2020, undercounted so-called “out of home” audiences — the people watching programs in offices, bars, hotels and other places — for national TV programming.

Nielsen has secured the participation of Disney and media agency Magna in the first offering to be part of its forthcoming cross-platform measurement system Nielsen One.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDon’t count Nielsen out as the media industry scrambles to find new ways to tabulate audiences increasingly making their way to venues other than a traditional TV set.The media measurement giant, whose work serves as the bedrock for most TV-advertising deals, intends to launch new technology that can provide so-called “cross screen” viewership of video content that might appear on traditional TV or on new digital screens, whether they be desktop, mobile, or

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorViacomCBS is among the big media companies rushing to find new ways to measure video audiences. Starting next year, the entertainment conglomerate expects to start doing deals based on a new yardstick.Dentsu, the Japanese ad conglomerate that owns Carat and Merkle, among other U.S.

Councils across Greater Manchester have outlined their plans for bin collections over Christmas and the New Year.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCount marketing analytics firm 605 among the number of firms that hope to fill in some of the gaps in measuring video audiences as more companies press for alternatives to the current standard, Nielsen.The company, founded by Kristin Dolan and backed by Dolan Family Ventures, the investment arm of the family long associated with the former Cablevision as well as AMC Networks, plans to use its data to launch a media trading currency that can undergird advertising

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOn Thursday evening, Fox News hopes to bring new light to the holiday season after a large Christmas tree placed outside the company’s New York headquarters was set ablaze Wednesday morning.“Fox & Friends” weekday hosts Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt will be joined by meteorologist Janice Dean, weekend “Fox & Friends” hosts Pete Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy and early morning hosts Todd Piro and Carley Shimkus as Fox News lights a new tree during the first

Boris Johnson has announced that Plan B measures will be brought in to help curb the spread of the new Omicron variant.

Lights on Lozier Ct.” Russo flicks the switch on seven days a week, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Bode Miller’s brood is bigger! The Olympian’s wife, Morgan Beck, announced the birth of their sixth child together, his eighth, on Monday, December 6.

Moses Sumney has shared a new single, ‘In Bloom (In The Woods’) – listen to it below.The stripped-down track reimagines his ‘græ’ track, ‘In Bloom’ and is taken from ‘Live From Blackalachia’ – his upcoming new album and film.The forthcoming LP was recorded in Western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, during the summer of 2020.

The Spider-Verse just got a whole lot bigger.

Sam Heughan and his Outlander co-star Graham McTavish released their second book Clandlands: The Almanac last month, and already it has made the New York Times Best Seller list.

While No Time to Die producer Barbara Broccoli admitted today that the stewards of the 007 franchise don’t yet know how James Bond will return after Daniel Craig’s swansong as the super secret agent, she did allow, “We’ll figure that one out, but he will be back. You can rest assured James Bond will be back.”

Finding out about the presence of Covid antibodies could take just 15 minutes using a new rapid test.