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Fox has decided not to air President Obama's first-100-days press conference this Wednesday—the only Big Four network to turn down the White House's request for time. ABC, CBS and NBC have all announced plans to carry the president's appearance. But Fox today said: No go. “The Fox Broadcasting...
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President Obama’s decision to hold another primetime news conference is playing havoc with the networks’ sweeps schedules—and causing some in the industry to grumble about the financial impact. The president has slated a news conference for Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT, his second since taking office two months...
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Jay Leno may be leaving “The Tonight Show,” but before he departs, he’s going to get one last appearance from Barack Obama. The White House is confirming that President Obama will be a guest on Thursday night’s program, during the president’s visit to the West Coast. Generally presidential candidates...
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More than 52 million viewers tuned in for President Barack Obama’s address to Congress Tuesday night, Nielsen Media Research said. Drawing 52.37 million, the speech pulled in more viewers than last year’s by nearly 15 million people. Although technically it was President Obama’s first State of the Union...
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A total of 49.5 million viewers across eight broadcast and cable networks watched President Barack Obama’s first press conference during primetime Monday night. Updated figures from Nielsen Co. found that 49,455,133 viewers tuned in last night for President Obama’s press conference on the economic stimulus...
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Going head-to-head on Tuesday night, Fox’s “American Idol” beat out prime-time coverage of the presidential inauguration on ABC, and outranked other networks’ inauguration coverage throughout the night as well. ‘Idol’ scored an 8.9 rating/22 share among adults 18-49 and a 12.1/18 in households, drawing...
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Early ratings returns from metered markets for the broadcast networks’ election coverage Tuesday may indicate a larger audience still to be announced for cable news networks later Wednesday. Despite covering a presidential election universally acknowledged as being fraught with history, the four broadcast...
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Call it Barack Obama’s $3.5 million gamble, but as the Obama campaign readies to air a half-hour TV program at 8 p.m. EDT Wednesday on major broadcast and some cable networks, the question is will it actually work? Amidst discussion about how the ad dramatically showcases the media buying advantages...
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The 2008 race for the presidency has been memorable for many reasons, not the least of which is the jaw-dropping effect it has had on the television industry. The campaign brought to media companies a record $750 million in advertising revenue—of which local stations and the broadcast and cable networks...
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An estimated 56.5 million people watched the last of the three debates between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, according to Nielsen Media Research. Wednesday night’s audience is smaller than the 63.2 million who watched the Oct. 7 presidential debate but larger than the 52.4 million TV turnout...
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Wednesday night’s third and final presidential debate edged out Major League Baseball playoff action, according to Nielsen Media preliminary numbers. NBC won the night with a 3.2 rating/8 share among viewers 18-49, led by its presidential debate coverage, which averaged a 3.9 rating/9 share from 9-10...
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While preliminary data indicates that television turnout for the final of presidential campaign debate declined from the last matchup between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, NBC may have performed best among the broadcast networks airing the contest, according to fast affiliate ratings...
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The second of three presidential debates between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain on Tuesday night was watched by 63.2 million people tuning in to 11 channels--27 million more people than saw their first debate Sept. 26, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. That’s a reversal from 2004...
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Sen. Barack Obama will make a cameo appearance on this weekend's season premiere of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," a spokesman for the show confirmed. Olympian Michael Phelps is scheduled to host the show, but Sen. Obama will appear in at least one sketch. Details of his appearance were...
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Sen. Barack Obama’s historic speech Thursday, accepting the presidential nomination during the Democratic National Convention, brought in 38 million viewers across 10 networks, setting a convention record. Last night’s speech bested its closest competitor, day four of the 1992 DNC, by more than 10 million...
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