The writers strike may be over, but the ratings pain it caused for the broadcast networks isn't. Nielsen ratings are down 20% so far in February at ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and the CW, due to patchwork TV schedules of reality and game shows.

Who's getting hurt the worst? Those...

One more upset from Super Tuesday: It looks like CNN scored a rare victory over Fox News. Overnight Nielsen ratings peg CNN's average hourly prime time audience at 3.6 million, narrowly edging Fox's 3.5 million. Also-ran MSNBC drew an average of 2.1 million.

The combined ratings for all three networks...

Barack Obama made for entertaining TV when he appeared on David Letterman's show Thursday night, promising to name Oprah Winfrey his vice president and Mitt Romney his "secretary of lookin' good". But his appearance didn't help Dave in the ratings.

CBS's "Late Show" was in a virtual dead heat...

David Letterman has won exactly one night in the ratings since he and Jay Leno returned from strike-imposed hiatus. But it's a good bet he's about to win another one on Thursday night, when Barack Obama stops by the Ed Sullivan Theater to read the Top-10 list.

Obama is...

Who needs writers? Not NBC. It's using low-brow reality shows starring over-muscled meatheads and Howie Mandel to whip Fox's expensive, scripted programming.

Monday night, Fox rolled out two of its most prized scripted shows: One of its few remaining originals of "Prison Break," and the second episode of "Terminator: The...

David Letterman is the only big late night host with professional writers. But it hasn't mattered in the ratings much: NBC's Jay Leno, writers or no writers, is still No.1 by a long shot.

Can Howard Stern help? Letterman has booked Stern, one of his biggest ratings draws...