Television Ratings

NBC Wins Seventh Straight Week In The TV Ratings

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — A Sunday night football clash between Dallas and Green Bay helped NBC win its seventh straight week in the television ratings, its lo...

TV Ratings: CBS Wins Monday, "Dancing With The Stars" Takes Top Spot, "Heroes" Premeires To 25% Ratings Dip

Hollywood Reporter | James Hibberd | Posted 10.24.2008 | Media


The two-hour premiere NBC's top drama "Heroes" was down 25% compared with last year's one-hour opener, taking an expected hit following a creatively m...

ABC, CBS, Fox See Lowest Ratings In History During NBC's Olympics Reign

Hollywood Reporter | James Hibberd | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media


NBC is running out of ways to describe its stellar Olympics ratings. During last week's Summer Games coverage, the network enjoyed the most-watched w...

Ben Silverman's Comments on Margins vs. Ratings Signal the End of Broadcast Television

Shelly Palmer | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media


Shelly Palmer

All of the professional explanations for the decline of broadcast television ratings seem to agree that the problem comes from outside forces and an unavoidable changing landscape. I disagree.

Competition Thrives On Broadcast Networks

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — Broadcast networks are the place to be for prime-time competitions _ if little else. Nine of the 20 most-watched programs on the net...

ABC Snaps Fox's 22-Week Win Streak

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — With an assist from Kobe Bryant and Paul Pierce, ABC snapped a Fox winning streak that had stretched back to January. For 22 straigh...

The World's Number One Show: CSI

Huffington Post via New York Post | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media


CSI may not have won the title of "America's favorite show" (that, of course, went to "American Idol") — and it wasn't even the top-scripted ser...

Fewer People Watching Broadcast Television

CNN/Money | Paul R. La Monica | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Good news for ABC and NBC. According to figures from Nielsen Media Research, the Disney (DIS)-owned network, which finished in third place with total ...