OMFG: Three years and nearly 1,000 days after it launched, The CW finally seems to have found its identity—and, more importantly, questions about its viability are fading away. Building on the momentum of 2-year-old pop culture sensation “Gossip Girl,” The CW this season appears to have achieved a breakthough...
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Some might say the beginning of the 2008-09 broadcast TV season marked a return to business as usual. With the writers strike a distant memory, the broadcast networks are back in the business of providing quality, regularly scheduled programming with new episodes of old favorites and the debuts of new...
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Both Hulu and YouTube increased the number of videos their Web sites delivered in November, but the much smaller of the two is resting its fortunes on traditional television programming. In fact, a look at the most-viewed TV shows on Hulu underscores the differing tastes of online and traditional TV...
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In time for the holiday season, we are celebrating a quintet of broadcast network prime-time series. These programs, one from each network, achieved the highest program engagement score among adults who live in households with children present. Scores are based on adults who watched these programs, regardless...
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This year’s November sweeps ratings period, buffeted by economic upheaval and declining statistical relevance to networks, saw ABC and CBS on top in adults 18-49 and total viewers, respectively. Only smaller networks The CW and MyNetworkTV avoided audience erosion in their target demographics. At press...
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An honest-to-goodness family thrives at “One Tree Hill.” The CW’s sudsy and often heart-wrenching drama has created real history and roots in Wilmington, N.C., the youthful coastal town where it is filmed. The EUE Screen Gems studio drew the cast and crew of “Hill” to Wilmington and holds a number of...