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
FCC rules in favor of encryption
Cable companies led by Comcast have won FCC approval 5-0 to start encrypting basic- tier signals in a move to fight theft and reduce...
Judge Judy takes household rating crown from Big Bang
Big Bang Theory still had the most viewers in the latest SNTA syndie rankings with more than 10M, but Judge Judy, #3 in viewers,...
About 51.5M watch Biden v. Ryan
The one and only vice presidential debate for 2012 is in the history books, and according to Nielsen, 51.479M people aged two or greater...
RLTV reached pact with TWC, Bright House
Adults 50+ comprise the target audience of basic cable service RLTV, and now a significantly greater number of that demographic will have a chance...
CBS wins Thursday with a Big Bang
A prime time entertainment schedule truncated by the VP debate went easily to CBS and its Big Bang and Two and a Half Men....
Fox program lineup exhibiting exemplary health
Very few programs running on Fox appear to be in any jeopardy whatsoever of a mid-season exit from the lineup, according to the ratings...