Yankees Beat Giants, "Sunday Night Football" In TV Ratings
NEW YORK — Sports fans in New York overwhelmingly chose to watch a decisive baseball playoff game over a regular-season football matchup Sunday ...
NEW YORK — Sports fans in New York overwhelmingly chose to watch a decisive baseball playoff game over a regular-season football matchup Sunday ...
AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — CBS began the fall season with a bang, winning the first week overall, scoring the top-rated program and premiering the most-watched ...
Disgrasian | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media
Us Weekly has profited enormously from the Gosselins' marriage failing -- producing six consecutive covers this summer featuring either Jon or Kate -- and they're not quite done feasting off that carcass' bones.
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
CNN had its best July ever this month, and reclaimed second place in the cable news ratings, topping MSNBC. CNN, which may have been aided by its in-...
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 08.25.2009 | Entertainment
It's been more than a month since Michael Jackson's demise and still no burial, cremation, resting place, or any manifestation of "closure" for this fallen King of Pop.
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
The week of July 13 turned out to be something of a historic one for late night TV, as both "Nightline" and "The Late Show with David Letterman" achie...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Much to its relief, HBO has finally discovered that there's life after "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City." The pay cable network,...
New York Times | BILL CARTER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
The slump at HBO is apparently over. In "True Blood," the pay cable giant has its first hit since "Rome," and the numbers indicate it may be the bigg...
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media
Michael Jackson's memorial service on Wednesday drew 31 million TV viewers in the US. Millions of others are expected to have streamed the service onl...
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media
HLN has been in the news much this past month, making headlines with morning anchor Robin Meade's skydive with President George H.W. Bush and with the...
Daily Finance | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media
As it happens, Nielsen, the ratings firm, recently started tracking such a metric. It's called Nielsen Fusion, and it combines viewership and online u...
Broadcasting & Cable | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media
At 9, the ABC News 20/20 and NBC News Dateline specials both drew a 1.7 rating/5 share in the 18-49 demo. At 10 p.m., the CBS news Michael Jackson spe...
mediabistro.com | Posted by Chris | 02:15 PM | ABC | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media
The ABC News special edition of Primetime "Questions for the President: Prescription for America" drew 4.7 million Total Viewers - last in the time sl...
thrfeed.com | James Hibberd | Posted 07.26.2009 | Media
The "Late Show" drew more viewers than the "Tonight Show" in last week's ratings -- the first time the CBS program has pulled a larger audience for a ...
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media
CNN's "Campbell Brown" hit a new ratings low for 2009 on Friday, June 19, when she averaged just 516,000 total viewers. Brown's previous 2009 low had...
Jack Myers | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media
This year's Upfront results will have significant impact on the future of the network television business.
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media
In what one television executive called an unprecedented data delay, Nielsen Media Research failed to provide overnight TV ratings for four days this ...
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media
TV ratings don't accurately measure the size the audience. It doesn't matter.
MediaWorks | John Rash | Posted 04.10.2009 | Media
"Celebrity Apprentice," which is running concurrently with host Donald Trump's endgames with several of his troubled, if not bankrupt, business ventur...
Los Angeles Times | Scott Collins | Posted 04.04.2009 | Media
Thanks to "American Idol," Fox is still beating up on rivals, at least among the young viewers that advertisers crave. But the punch isn't what it onc...
The Live Feed | James Hibberd | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media
Barack Obama's latest speech on the economy commandeered primetime, displacing shows from the 9 p.m. hour with a highly viewed address. Obama's talk ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media
ABC Family's "Secret Life of the American Teenager" smashed network rating records with its season premiere Monday night — and in the process, b...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 01.24.2009 | Media
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Dec. 15-21. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.27.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — With another dominating week in the television ratings, CBS will win the November "sweeps" for the eighth straight year. Back when t...
Hollywood Reporter | James Hibberd | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media
A guest appearance by former cast member Anthony Edwards on "ER" helped boost the Thursday night medical drama to its highest rating in five weeks and...
AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York