ABC’s ‘General Hospital’ No. 1 daytime program in women 18-34

ABC Ranks as Daytime’s No. 1 Network in Women 18-34 and Women 18-49“General Hospital” is the Week’s No. 1 Daytime Program in Women 18-34...

Report: Palin shopping TV reality show

Entertainment Weekly reports that former Alaska Governor and GOP Veep candidate Sarah Palin was spotted making the rounds in Hollywood with top-tier reality show...

Oprah no primetime star

"American Idol" dominated Wednesday night and handed Fox the ratings victory, while the queen of daytime television failed to get her fans to stay...

Lincoln opens on Arkansas TV

Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) has no doubt been expecting a spirited challenge for her seat from Republicans in November. However, a spirited charge from within...

‘Jay Leno’s’ second night w/ Sarah Palin beats ‘David Letterman’

Last night Jay Leno got a little help from Sarah Palin and the special opening monologue."The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1.5 rating in...

‘Modern Family’ the Wednesday standout for ABC

ABC’s Replay “Modern Family” is the No. 1 Scripted Show at 8pm  In Adults 18-49, Finishing 13% Ahead of NBC’s Original “Mercy”On its First...

NBC’s 2 hour ‘Law & Order: SVU’ pulled better at 10pm

At 8 p.m., “Mercy” averaged a 1.6/5 in adults 18-49 and 6.0 million viewers overall.  "Mercy" is #2 among the major networks in the...

Two hour ‘American Idol’ gives Fox Wednesday win

The Girls out shined the Guys as FOX swept the night across all demos last night, dominating the next-highest rated network by +204% among...

CBS #2 Wednesday w/ ‘CSI: NY’ taking first honor at 10pm

"CRIMINAL MINDS" IS WEDNESDAY'S NUMBER ONE SCRIPTED PROGRAM IN VIEWERS AND ADULTS 18-49"CSI: NY" Places First at 10:00 PM in Viewers and Key DemosCBS...

Dish/EchoStar loses another court round to TiVo

A federal appeals court has upheld a contempt citation by a lower court against EchoStar and Dish Network for patent infringement. That puts Dish/EchoStar

Politicians picking sides in WABC-Cablevision showdown

With the midnight Saturday deadline approaching for WABC-TV New York to disappear from Cablevision’s systems unless a new retransmission

AARP bringing Jane Pauley back to NBC’s “Today”

AARP announced that it has teamed up with NBC to have veteran “Today” host Jane Pauley return to the morning TV program with a...

Cablevision and WABC continue PR battle

Each side is trying to claim the moral high ground as Cablevision heads toward a deadline of midnight Saturday to come to terms with WABC-TV New York for retransmission consent or remove the ABC Network flagship from its cable systems

Easy win for Fox

"American Idol" dominated Tuesday and gave Fox the ratings win, while NBC's debut of "Parenthood" was only OK.Tuesday Overnight Nielsen ratingsRatings/ShareAdults 18-498.6/113.3/93.1/82.5/71.4/40.3/1Adults 18-347.1/202.1/62.4/72.3/71.4/40.3/1Total Viewers...

Week 23: Broadcast 88, Cable 12

The highest rated cable show last week was a familiar one, “WWE Entertainment” on USA, claiming the #35 spot for all of television in the weekly number crunch of data from The Nielsen Company for both broadcast and cable by the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB). In all, cable put a dozen shows in the top 100