Letterman sweeps Leno for the first time since his return

CBS's LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN swept "The Tonight Show" in viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 for the first time since Jay Leno's...

ABC wins Election Night in viewers, Adults 18-49

ABC finished as the clear winner on midterm election night, defeating its nearest competitors on Tuesday by 2.7 million viewers (12.0 million vs. 9.3...

Hell

According to Live+Same Day Nielsen Ratings, FOX’s encores of Hell’s Kitchen at 8p (1.3/4) and 9p (1.4/4) 11/3 ranked fourth for the night among...

Halloween Parade clown fractures face of WPIX

WPIX-TV 11 NYC reporter Arthur Chi'en suffered extensive facial fractures after being dragged off a Greenwich Village Halloween Parade float by a marauding clown. "He...

Retrans critical to growth at Fox

In News Corporation’s quarterly conference call with Wall Street analysts, COO Chase Carey emphasized that retransmission consent fees are “critical to driving the Fox...

"Eva Luna" premiere draws 5.2 million viewers for Univision

Monday night’s highly anticipated premiere of Univision Studios’ first dramatic program “Eva Luna” delivered impressive audience figures for the network, reaching 5.2 million Total...

1.3 million viewers tune in for Telemundo

Telemundo announced its NTI results for the premiere of Aurora, the network’s newest original primetime novela. According to Nielsen Media Research, Aurora delivered an...

TV revenues up 11.2% at News Corporation

Cable was once again stronger for News Corporation, with fiscal Q1 (July-September) revenues up 16.6% to $1.87 billion. But the Television division had a...

Week 6: Broadcast 92, Cable 8

ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” moved back up to the #2 spot, behind only “NBC Sunday Night Football,” in the weekly rankings for all of...

Double digit gains for Nexstar

Q3 revenues were up 21.1% for Nexstar Broadcasting to a record $73.1 million. And even excluding the political windfall revenues were up double digits. Core advertising, excluding political, gained 12%

Fox sets The Chicago Code premiere date

The Chicago Code (formerly titled “Ride-Along”), the distinctive new police drama from critically acclaimed creator Shawn Ryan (“The Shield”), will make its series debut...

Viewers voted for Dancing

The Election Night ratings crown went to ABC, as "Dancing With the Stars" trounced reruns and election coverage. Tuesday Overnight Nielsen ratings Ratings/Share Adults 18-49 2.4/7 2.1/6 2.0/5 1.4/4 1.4/4 0.9/3 Adults 18-34 1.6/5 1.4/4 1.3/4 1.4/4 1.3/4 1.1/3 Total Viewers...

Political hits record at Sinclair Broadcast Group

It may be a mid-term election, but Sinclair Broadcast Group reports that political advertising established a new record for the company this year. Sinclair reported that Q3 revenues were up 16.4%

Cablevision/Fox could spill over on to Comcast/NBCU

Programming properties of News Corp./Fox Television recently came to terms on retransmission contracts with two MVPDs

Stars ready to hit the ice on ABC

When a network has a huge hit show, the obvious question that the programming honchos ask is “How can we duplicate this?” Thus, “Skating...