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Fox and CBS did it again. For the 2008-09 TV season, Fox has officially claimed its fifth consecutive ratings win among adults 18-49, while CBS wrapped up the season as the most-watched broadcast network for the sixth time in the last seven years. It was a season in which comparisons were made difficult...
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Fox has officially claimed its fifth consecutive win among adults 18-49 for the 2008-09 TV season, while CBS wrapped up the season as the most-watched broadcast network for the sixth time out of the last seven years. With “America Idol” to bolster the second half of the season, Fox finished with a 3...
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“American Idol” wrapped up its eighth season Wednesday night with its lowest-rated finale ever. Last night’s two-hour results show averaged a 10.0 rating among adults 18-49 from 8-10:07 p.m., according to time-zone-adjusted Fast National numbers from Nielsen Media Research. The show drew 28.8 million...
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For the first two weeks of the May sweeps, CBS is the only broadcast television network posting year-over-year gains among total viewers. The network is also the only one to avoid any losses among adults 18-49, the demographic still led by Fox. Among total viewers, CBS averaged 10.8 million viewers,...
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Univision’s local newscasts in Los Angeles and New York were the top two local early evening newscasts among total adults 18-49 during the first quarter, according to Nielsen Station Index. KMEX Univision 34 in Los Angeles, which ranked first, and WXTV Univision 41 in New York beat out English-language...
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This weekend’s coverage of the 2009 Masters golf tournament on CBS reached a total of 42 million viewers for third- and final-round play, up 6% over last year and ranking as the Masters’ most watched weekend since 2001. This weekend’s 42 million total viewers that tuned in for part or all of the telecasts...
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With Major League Baseball beginning its season this week, it’s worth looking back at last season to see which teams generated the biggest ratings. Red Sox Nation was following the Boston Red Sox as keenly as ever, bringing New England Sports Network an average 10.1 rating for each game it televised...
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Monday night’s final matchup of this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament came in as the lowest-rated championship game ever. Last night’s game, in which North Carolina beat Michigan State, drew a 10.8 household rating/18 share among households and 17.6 million viewers, according to final figures...
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Univision’s presentation of the “Premio Lo Nuestro a la Música Latina” drew 13 million total viewers Thursday night, the biggest audience in the show’s 21-year history. Last night’s three-hour telecast averaged 6.6 million viewers, in addition to the 13 million that watched part of the telecast. “Premio...
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President Obama has joined Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld and the cast of "Cheers" in the pantheon of guests who have given Jay Leno his best "Tonight Show" ratings. Thursday's presidential appearance—the first by a sitting president on a late-night talk show—scored...
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LeBron James isn't only scoring on the basketball court-he's also scoring on the tube. Local ratings for Cleveland Cavaliers games are up 119% to an 8.1 Nielsen household rating, the highest for any time in any market this season. On the other hand, things are tough in Detroit, where ratings...
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Jimmy Fallon returned strongly to late-night TV based on early ratings returns. Monday night’s debut of NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” scored a 2.3 rating/8 share in metered-market households, giving the franchise the highest metered-market rating since January 2006. Last night’s premiere was up...
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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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The 2009 Academy Awards rebounded nicely from last year’s record-low ratings, but not enough to prevent the show from ranking as the second lowest-rated ceremony ever among adults 18-49. According to preliminary fast national data from Nielsen supplied by ABC, Sunday’s Hugh Jackman-hosted ceremony notched...
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There's an early glimmer of hope that this year's Oscar ratings won't be quite as bad as some prognosticators had feared. Accurate Nielsen numbers for Sunday's Oscars won't be available until later today, but in the nation's biggest TV markets, at least, the show managed to register...