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Abc Scores Decisive Ratings Victory With Nba
ABC's hoop dreams came true last week as its coverage of Thursday's seventh and deciding game of the NBA Finals, in which the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics, drew 28.2 million viewers --...
By Lew Irwin on 24 June 2010
Summer Starts Off With The Blahs
The summer season got off to an inauspicious start on Thursday as Fox's summer powerhouse, So You Think You Can Dance, averaged 7.49 million viewers. While that was good enough to beat the competition, it...
By Lew Irwin on 28 May 2010
The 2009-2010 Season Is Over
The last full week of the 2009-2010 broadcast season was won by ABC, an also-ran through most of the season, among adults 18-49 and by CBS among viewers overall. ABC was helped by a full...
By Lew Irwin on 26 May 2010
Univision To Debut A Whopping 20 New Shows
While ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC all surprised advertisers with aggressive overhauls of their fall schedules, they were upstaged today (Thursday) by Spanish-language Univision, which said that it will launch a staggering 20 new shows...
By Lew Irwin on 20 May 2010
Nbc Station In L.a. Admits Not Living Up To "Journalistic Standards"
The NBC-owned television station in Los Angeles on Tuesday announced the departure of its "vice president, content" and simultaneously admitted that it had not lived up to "journalistic standards" when it aired a faked report...
By Lew Irwin on 19 May 2010
Idol Is Again Tv's Most-watched Show
Heading towards the final competition showdown, Fox's American Idol regained its position as the most-watched television show last week, with Wednesday's results show drawing 19.57 million viewers and Tuesday's performance show, 19.17 million. ABC's Monday-night...
By Lew Irwin on 19 May 2010
Cbs Making Bold Program Changes
CBS unveiled its fall schedule today (Wednesday), surprising advertisers with an aggressive overhaul that includes dumping several shows, adding four dramas and two sitcoms, and shuffling some shows to different nights, including its hit series...
By Lew Irwin on 19 May 2010
Law & Order Cancelled
Long-running U.S. cop show LAW & ORDER has been cancelled after 20 years.DICk Wolf's highly-successful New York-based drama premiered in America in 1990 and went on to spawn two separate spin-offs - Law & Order:...
By WENN on 14 May 2010
Betty White Shines As Snl Turns Golden With Girls
Betty White brought Saturday Night Live its highest ratings since last year's pesidential election as she co-hosted the late-night show and appeared in virtually all of its satirical sketches. The episode scored an 8.8 rating...
By Lew Irwin on 10 May 2010
Jay's Ratings Fall Below Conan's
For the first time, Jay Leno's average weekly ratings among 18-49-year-old viewers has fallen below Conan O'Brien's, departing TheWrap.com TV analyst Joe Adalian observed on Thursday. Adalian noted that Leno averaged only a 1.0 rating...
By Lew Irwin on 23 April 2010
Hulu's Free Ride May Be Ending
Hulu, the online site that offers shows from NBC, Fox, and ABC -- and is owned by the corporate parents of those networks -- may have attracted a sizable number of viewers after its launch...
By Lew Irwin on 22 April 2010
Ferguson Eyeing Tv Role
British royal SARAH FERGUSON is planning a new career as a full-time TV presenter in the U.S.The Duchess of York has already landed a number of small television jobs, including guest slots on The View...
By WENN on 21 April 2010
Nbc Says It Lost Less Than It Thought From The Olympics
While NBC had forecast that it would lose $250 million in its Winter Olympics telecasts, the actual loss came in at $199 million, according to an SEC filing by parent General Electric today (Friday). The...
By Lew Irwin on 16 April 2010
Dancing Again Tops Idol
For the second week in a row, an episode of ABC's Dancing with the Stars drew bigger ratings among overall viewers than either episode of Fox's American Idol -- the first time ever that Idol...
By Lew Irwin on 14 April 2010
Gay Mag The Advocate To Launch Nightly Cable News Show
The pioneering but relatively moderate gay-oriented magazine The Advocate, which in recent years has found itself on the outs (no pun intended) with more militant gay activists, plans to launch a cable and Internet news...
By Lew Irwin on 30 March 2010
Seinfeld's Marriage Ref Debuts With Strong Ratings
It may have received nothing but disparaging reviews after a preview outing during the Winter Olympics' finale a week ago, but the Jerry Seinfeld-produced The Marriage Ref got off to a solid start in the...
By Lew Irwin on 08 March 2010
Nbc Closes Closing Ceremony Early; Viewers Irate
NBC has managed to do it again -- anger a lot of viewers and tarnish the prestige of one of its most bankable stars. The network, which had bombarded viewers with promos for its Jerry...
By Lew Irwin on 01 March 2010
35% Of Olympics Viewers Cry -- And Other Statistics
Statistics continue to pour forth from NBC publicists assigned to the Vancouver Olympics. In a press release on Thursday, they cited "research results" indicating that 35 percent of viewers cried or became teary-eyed when watching...
By Lew Irwin on 26 February 2010
N.y. Times Won't Delay Olympics Results
The New York Times has rejected suggestions that it delay posting results of Winter Olympics contests until after they are broadcast by NBC. Clark Hoyt, the newspaper's public editor (in effect, an ombudsman for readers),...
By Lew Irwin on 19 February 2010
Olympics Lift Nbc To No. 1
Thanks to the Winter Olympics, NBC found itself in the rare position of standing on the victor's platform in the weekly ratings race. Friday's coverage of the opening ceremonies was the most-watched program of the...
By Lew Irwin on 18 February 2010
Leno's Ratings Plunge Deeper
Dismal ratings for Monday night's Jay Leno Show on NBC seemed to indicate that the late-night talk-show host has a rough road ahead of him to repair his image before he returns to the Tonight...
By Lew Irwin on 02 February 2010
Grammy-winning Composer Wild Dies
Grammy-winning composer EARL WILD has died, aged 94.Wild, who suffered from congestive heart disease, passed away on Saturday (23Jan10) at his home in Palm Springs, California. He was the first pianist to perform a...
By WENN on 25 January 2010
Roddenberry's Forgotten Show To Be Revived
The son of STAR TREK creator GENE RODDENBERRY has teamed up with movie director RON HOWARD to bring one of his late father's forgotten TV projects back to the small screen.Rod Roddenberry has struck a...
By WENN on 22 January 2010
Journalism Ethics Scholars Decry Haiti Medical Coverage
Several media ethics scholars have criticized the broadcast and cable news networks for allowing their medical correspondents to be shown performing emergency treatment in Haiti. Dr. Steve Miles, a physician-ethicist on the faculty of the...
By Lew Irwin on 21 January 2010
Top-rated Tv Shows Of 2009 Named
Nielsen today (Friday) released its annual list of top-rated TV series, with Fox's American Idol once again taking the top-two positions. Two new shows also made the list, CBS's NCIS Los Angeles at No. 6,...
By Lew Irwin on 11 December 2009
Loser Makes Leno A Winner
Suggesting that ratings for The Jay Leno Show might be a whole lot stronger if its lead-in shows were as well, Tuesday night's episode drew 8.40 million viewers after it followed the season finale of...
By Lew Irwin on 10 December 2009
Larry King To Interview Alleged Gate-crashers
CNN's Larry King has landed an interview with the Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who managed to slip through security on November 24 to attend President Obama's first state dinner without an invitation. They...
By Lew Irwin on 27 November 2009
Ama Awards Challenge Football
ABC's telecast of Sunday night's American Music Awards averaged 14.16 million viewers and beat out NBC's Sunday Night Football from 9 00 p.m. to 10 30 p.m., according to overnight Nielsen ratings. The football telecast...
By Lew Irwin on 23 November 2009
Nbc's Brian Williams Praises Daily Show 'S Jon Stewart
Writing in Newsweek, NBC' anchor Brian Williams suggests that Jon Stewart and The Daily Show have had a profound influence on television news in general and his own newscast in particular. "On occasion, when we've...
By Lew Irwin on 20 November 2009
Ncis On Top For Fifth Straight Week
CBS's NCIS reaffirmed its status as the top hit of the current season as it headed Nielsen's ratings list for the fifth consecutive week, attracting 21.3 million viewers. Its spinoff, NCIS Los Angeles also reestablished...
By Lew Irwin on 28 October 2009
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