LG Display Surprise Loss Points to TV Challenge, iPhone Struggle

Getting on TV is a key PR goal for many businesses. But landing a televisioninterview isn’t about who you know; it’s about offering the right stuff. Here’s what you need to get a broadcast interview. Whether it’s a national business show or a local lifestyle segment, television coverage offers credibility and …

LG Display got 43 percent of its revenue from the television segment, while mobile, monitors, notebooks and tablets accounted for the rest. “The biggest reason for the drop has to do with the falling prices of television panels,” said Park. Read More: LG Display’s Loss Points to a Structural Change in Tech: …

Evine is a “distant number three player” in television retail behind QVC and HSN, but it still would offer Amazon a way to merchandise to 87 million American homes. Forte sees a risk a deal would not get regulatory approval. “Simply put, would President Trump want Amazon to broadcast into 87 million …

Prepare to pay more for your next television. The Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on Chinese imports include a 25% levy on TVs and related components. A report commissioned by two trade associations says the levy could push up television prices in the U.S. by 4% overall, and by 23% for those …

The Wall Street Journal reported this month that Sinclair was facing pushback from the FCC, which had questions about Sinclair’s plans to sell Tribune-owned televisionstations in New York and Chicago to organizations with long ties to Sinclair. Already one of the nation’s biggest broadcasters with stations …

Since taking over the 9 a.m. hour of the lucrative morning show in September and rebranding it “Megyn Kelly Today,” Ms. Kelly has struggled to make the shift to daytime broadcast television, with its delicate balance of soft features and hard news. Her ratings declines and higher production costs have been …

The networks have to figure out how to make more money from the shows they produce, whether they’re streamed or broadcast on the tube. “We have to believe” the dollars “will catch up to the audience,” said Christina Miller, head of Cartoon Network and Boomerang. “If it’s the opposite, game over.” …

In the 2015 article “The Unbearable Darkness of Prestige Television” for The Atlantic, scholar Elizabeth Alsop writes, “This new solemnity could be seen as a sign of status anxiety: a byproduct of both serial television’s desire to disassociate from its soapy origins, and genre programming’s striving for cultural …

If this sounds like TV to you, you’re not wrong. From Clive James on Television to The Soup via Candid Camera and You’ve Been Framed, people on TV talking about watching TV is a tried and trusted staple. Filming in his small room, decorated with Japanese figurines and a poster of A Clockwork Orange, …

s momentum by tapping the same producers of that musical foray, as well as the hit-churning team of Pasek & Paul (of La La Land and Greatest Showman fame) to pen new music for a broadcast version of the song-and-dance iteration of the 1983 holiday classic. (Whew.) In spite of a fantastic cast that …