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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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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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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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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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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 broadcast networks are making Friday nights a little more interesting this season. Once home to some of TV’s biggest shows—think “Dallas” or ABC’s “TGIF” comedy hits—Friday has fallen out of favor at the networks in recent years. The night has become home to cheap reality fare, newsmagazines and...
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Performances by U2, Miley Cyrus and Lil Wayne may have helped boost tune-in for this year’s Grammy Awards, but the star-studded roster wasn’t the only factor behind the show’s ratings resurrection. Long before Bono opened Sunday’s show, CBS and the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences had...
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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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As the national economy slides deeper into a recession, viewers appear to be turning to familiar favorites to ease the pain, making it harder for many newer shows to get noticed. That's proving to be a challenge for the cable networks that rolled the dice in December and January on several high-profile...
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NBC beat ABC and Fox as the most-watched broadcast network in the hour leading up to and including President Barack Obama’s inauguration oath and speech. CNN topped the cable networks during the oath of office. During 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. EST Tuesday, NBC drew 11.5 million viewers and scored a 4.0...
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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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Add another measure by which CBS has emerged as the top-rated network. According to an analysis by Magna Global, the media intelligence arm of Interpublic’s Mediabrands unit, CBS also is leading the broadcast networks in C3 commercial ratings. That’s important because advertising is bought and sold based...
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Fox drew the highest ratings among the networks that show NFL football for the second consecutive year. Fox said its NFL games averaged a 10.5 Nielsen household rating and a 22 share CBS’s Sunday games drew a 10 ratings and 21 share. Fox’s Sunday afternoon rating also beat the 10.2/16 NBC drew with its...
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NBC morning news programs continue to lead in ratings, as last week’s “Today” and Sunday’s “Meet the Press” performances top their respective time slots. “Today” marked its 680th consecutive week at No. 1 for the week ending Dec. 21, averaging 6 million viewers. NBC beat out ABC’s “Good Morning America...
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