Sports accounted for the largest share of top genres, with seven advertisers spending the most in the category. Five advertisers made comedy their largest category, while news accounted for the remaining three.
"The Highmark Stadium opener rose 5% over last year's Thursday Night Football season debut. Meanwhile, it jumped 21% above last season's full-year average of 15.33 million."
"When high profile people are accessible anytime of the day by the entire world, they're going to hear a lot of noise. Sometimes those tweets are designed to generate a negative reaction, and our industry's most passionate people can't always look away."
"The people that are producing Mike Francesa’s podcast are not young whip guys that are going to end up being the heads of NBC or something or the heads of Paramount Pictures."
"I wondered if media executives consider what we're doing important. If we stopped covering the business and shut down tomorrow, how much would it matter?"
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"I said to the producer, 'Hey, everybody's gonna always ask me. They think I'm the sports guy. They're gonna ask me every question. We need to have Dog answer the phones.'"
"The Highmark Stadium opener rose 5% over last year's Thursday Night Football season debut. Meanwhile, it jumped 21% above last season's full-year average of 15.33 million."