Media General rides Olympics, political to big Q3 gains
A considerably slimmer Media General – it shed all of its newspaper properties in the past year – put some gaudy comp percentages on...
Khloe Kardashian, Mario Lopez to host The X Factor
Khloe Kardashian Odom and TV host and actor Mario Lopez will host the second season, airing Wednesdays (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) and Thursdays...
Children’s watchdog identifies bad TV role models
Common Sense, the media monitoring service co-founded by current FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, has produced a top 10 list of fictional and actual people...
CBS tops the week
CBS placed first in viewers for the third consecutive week of the new television season, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for...
Fox topped Tues. in Teens
Last week, FOX’s Tuesday comedy block combined with THE X FACTOR, BONES, FOX MLB NLCS GAME 1 and FOX COLLEGE FOOTBALL to lead the...
NBC ruled 18-49
NBC has finished #1 in adults 18-49 for week three of the 2012-13 television season, giving the network wins in each of the season's...
ABC was #1 in non-sports 18-49
Overall: During the week of 10/8/12, ABC finished as the #1 network in the non-sports Adult 18-49 averages (tie), despite the Thursday pre-emption of...
Wire-to-wire Monday win for NBC
NBC's The Voice and Revolution proved too much to overcome for rival networks, giving NBC a clear ratings victory. After that, it was CBS,...
CBS extends Les Moonves’ contract
CEO Leslie Moonves will be staying with CBS Corp. through June 2017. The five-year contract, replacing one expiring in 2015, gives Moonves the option...
L+7 DVR lifts CBS even higher in premiere week
Live plus 7-day DVR playback expanded CBS’s live plus same day premiere week viewer win from 2.35 million viewers to 2.86 million, according to...
ABC continued to grow its Sunday numbers YOY
Opposite NBC’s big Sunday Night Football contest (Green Bay Packers-Houston Texans) and an NFL-overrun boosted Fox with MLB Playoffs (National League Championship Game 1),...
NBC and football best Fox and baseball
Fox benefitted from a football overrun into primetime and had playoff baseball on the schedule, but NBC's NFL primetime entry was about twice as...
NBC gets TV rights to Formula One racing
NBC hopes the deal will give its NBC Sports Network a boost. Formula One will also appear on NBC, but feeding the cable channel...
Solid CBS lineup still has one show down, one endangered
CBS has a number of programs that are in absolutely no danger of cancellation, in some cases because they are near the magic number...
Gannett television interests take flight in Q3
The strong NBC presence in the Gannett television station portfolio, along with excellent political results, fueled massive YOY gains in the