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Last Guys Finish First
The lowest-rated network during the primary (fall) season of the year is becoming the highest-rated one of the summer. NBC, which ordinarily places fourth among the major networks, grabbed six of the top-ten positions on...
By Lew Irwin on 04 July 2012
Nba Finals Make Nbc A Ratings Winner
Network ratings may be down across the board -- except the scoreboard. Sports continues to grab bigger and bigger ratings, as evidenced by last week's strong numbers for the NBA Finals. Tuesday's penultimate game of...
By Lew Irwin on 27 June 2012
America's Got Talent Down From Last Year, Still No. 1
It is that time of year when NBC's America's Got Talent dominates the weekly ratings -- except for those weeks when the NBA Finals overwhelm everything in sight. Last week was no exception as Tuesday's...
By Lew Irwin on 13 June 2012
Talent Shows Not Going Out With A Bang
Last week ought to have been the week when the big talent-contest shows, American Idol and Dancing with the Stars, were trouncing everything in sight. To be sure, they still represented potent factors on the...
By Lew Irwin on 16 May 2012
Cbs And Fox Split Ratings Honors
As usual, CBS was the most-watched television network last week, and its long-running drama NCIS was the most-watched television show. However, it came in second to Fox in the 18-49 age group, the demographic group...
By Lew Irwin on 18 April 2012
Ncis Beats Out Talent Contests
CBS's NCIS was back on top of the Nielsen ratings chart again last week, beating out such formidable competitors as ABC's Dancing with the Stars, Fox's American Idol and NBC's The Voice . Its margin...
By Lew Irwin on 28 March 2012
Aretha Franklin Reveals New Clive Davis Album At 70th Birthday Bash
Aretha Franklin was in fine spirits as she celebrated her 70th birthday among family and friends, and chose the occasion to announce that she'd be recording once again with old pal Clive Davis on her...
By WENN on 28 March 2012
Aretha Franklin Announces New Album At 70th Birthday Party
Aretha Franklin has announced that she plans to record a new album. The Queen of Soul was speaking at her 70th birthday party in New York when she revealed the plans. A number of stars...
By WENN on 26 March 2012
Ncis Fells American Idol
For the first time, a regularly scheduled entertainment show has knocked American Idol off its perch at the top of the Nielsen ratings chart as the most-viewed show among total adults. According to final figures,...
By Lew Irwin on 22 February 2012
So What Did Xmas Shoppers Watch On Their New Tv's?
The week before Christmas featured nearly as many reruns on primetime TV as a typical week in midsummer -- with commensurate low ratings. There were a few exceptions. A repeat of CBS's NCIS drew 12.4...
By Lew Irwin on 29 December 2011
Regis Philbin Hosts Last Episode Of 'Live With Regis And Kelly'
Regis Philbin hosted his last episode of 'Live! With Regis and Kelly' yesterday (18 Nov 2011). 80-year-old Regis Philbin said his final goodbyes after a huge number of tributes came in by a variety of...
By Lew Irwin on 19 November 2011
Ncis Shows Its Might Again
Defying tough competition, CBS's NCIS emerged as the most-watched television show last week, beating such rivals as NBC's Sunday Night Football, ABC's Dancing with the Stars and CBS's Two and a Half Men . The...
By Lew Irwin on 19 October 2011
Ratings For Emmys Dip Again
Television's annual Emmy awards, once one of the medium's highest-rated annual events, landed in seventh place on the Nielsen ratings list for last week, outranked by NBC's Sunday-night football telecast, which aired opposite it, a...
By Lew Irwin on 21 September 2011
Univision A Big Ratings Winner
Nielsen's top ten ratings list was turned on its ear this week as Univision's telenovela (limited-run soap opera) Fuerza del Destino captured three of the positions among the key demographic group of adults 18-49, making...
By Lew Irwin on 08 September 2011
Thanks To Talent , Football, Nbc's Got Ratings
It was another week for NBC's peacock to crow. The struggling network saw its America's Got Talent rank first and second in the Nielsen ratings, with the two-hour Tuesday edition averaging 12 million viewers and...
By Lew Irwin on 31 August 2011
Abc Moving In On Nbc In Morning And Early Evening
While NBC has struggled for years as generally the last-place network in primetime, it has remained dominant in two other time periods, the morning with the Today show, and in the early evening with NBC...
By Lew Irwin on 25 August 2011
Ratings Ncis At Top
A rerun of CBS's NCIS placed first in the ratings among total adults last week, edging out the usual weekly winner during the summer, NBC's America's Got Talent. The Tuesday edition of the talent contest...
By Lew Irwin on 17 August 2011
News Beats Entertainment In Ratings
More TV viewers were watching reports about the budget crisis last week than most entertainment programs. NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams averaged 7.9 million viewers for the week. That would have put it at...
By Lew Irwin on 03 August 2011
Sawyer Closing In On Williams
An excerpt from Diane Sawyer's interview with Jaycee Dugard that was included in last Thursday night's World News with Diane Sawyer not only gave the ABC newscast a rare win for the night over NBC...
By Lew Irwin on 13 July 2011
A Bad Week For Lebron Is Great For Abc
ABC's telecasts of the NBA finals between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat dominated the primetime ratings for the second week in a row among total viewers and those 18-49. Along with Monday's The...
By Lew Irwin on 15 June 2011
Fox Sweeps Up May Ratings Win
Thanks to enormous ratings for the finale of American Idol, Fox trounced its competition in the ratings for total viewers and adults 18-49 in the final week of the May sweeps, which coincides with the...
By Lew Irwin on 02 June 2011
Katie Exits Without Much Of A Ratings Bump
Ratings for the NBC and ABC nightly newscasts were down significantly last week. NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams once again led the field with 8.61 million viewers, but second-place ABC World News with Diane...
By Lew Irwin on 25 May 2011
Abc's Got A Secret -- And It's A Hit
Secret Millionaire , a hit British TV reality series that failed when a U.S. version was launched by Fox in 2008 -- it folded after six hour-long specials aired in December 2008 -- turned out...
By Lew Irwin on 09 March 2011
Fox Hails One Of Its Biggest Weeks
Needless to say, Fox TV, which drew the largest U.S. audience in TV history with this year's Super Bowl telecast (111 million viewers) and cashed in afterwards with the post-game show and a special edition...
By Lew Irwin on 09 February 2011
Cbs Again Dominates Weekly Ratings
Some 50.55 million viewers tuned in to CBS's telecast of the AFC Divisional Playoff game between the New York Jets and the New England Patriots on Sunday, and while Nielsen did not include the primetime...
By Lew Irwin on 20 January 2011
Sawyer Lands Husband Of Wounded Congresswoman
Certifying her reputation as queen of the "gets" -- especially now that Barbara Walters is, for all intents and purposes, out of the competition -- Diane Sawyer has landed the first interview with Mark Kelly,...
By Lew Irwin on 17 January 2011
Cbs A Smash During Xmas Week
During a week that saw millions of folks doing last-minute Christmas shopping instead of watching TV, network schedules that included as many reruns as a week in July, and a blizzard that knocked out Sunday...
By Lew Irwin on 29 December 2010
Nbc Ratings Champ Again
With 24 million viewers tuning in to the game itself and another 17 million watching the "Pre-Kickoff" telecast, Monday Night Football gave NBC its second consecutive ratings victory among the key 18-49 demographic last week,...
By Lew Irwin on 22 December 2010
Ratings Soar For Nbc News
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams boasted ratings last week that would have been the envy of any of the network's entertainment programming. With an average of nearly 10 million viewers tuned in during the...
By Lew Irwin on 08 December 2010
Bristol Et Al Lift Ratings For Dwts Finale
The season finale of ABC's Dancing with the Stars shoved aside NBC's Sunday Night Football last week as the results show attracted a whopping 24.2 million viewers and the final performance show drew 23.7 million....
By Lew Irwin on 01 December 2010
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