Family Guy tops the night for Fox
On Sunday, FOX’s FAMILY GUY was the highest rated entertainment program of the night among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34 and Teens.
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NBC: SNL dominated
In time zone-adjusted metered-market ratings, the Miami-Notre Dame game from Solider Field in Chicago (won by Notre Dame 41-3) averaged a 2.4/4 in metered-market...
NBC greenlights “Get Out Alive”
“Get Out Alive” (working title) is a new, larger-than-life and extreme adventure reality-competition series headlined by world-renowned adventurer Bear Grylls, to be co-produced by...
Auto Hop role in retrans negotiations examined
The basic issue between broadcasters and satellite MVPD Dish Network is money, of course, but Dish’s ad-skipping Auto Hop feature tends to come up...
ABC up 15% over year-ago Sunday
Up against NBC’s Sunday Night Football and an NFL-overrun boosted CBS, ABC outdrew Fox’s Sunday night schedule by 2.0 million viewers. During the 7...
Prime time football scores again for NBC
CBS and Fox benefitted from football overruns, but NBC had the full prime time football schedule to itself and took Sunday once again. ABC...
Big noise from Big Bang in syndie ratings
For the week starting 9/17/12, Big Bang Theory came within a stone’s throw of scoring 11M viewers, and #2 Wheel of Fortune reached 9.5M...
Gannett and Dish come to terms
An early morning press release from Gannett revealed that had reached an agreement with Dish Network to extend negotiations on a new retransmission pact....
Time-shifted viewing broadcast numbers best cable’s top shows
So says a TVB analysis of ratings for the first week of the 2012/13 broadcast season: the time-shifted portion of broadcast television’s same-day Top...
ABC scores Big L+3 gains
With Nielsen’s release of Live + 3 Day program ratings for the first week of the 2012-13 season, ABC solidified its claim of delivering...
Big Bang top dog on Thursday
THE BIG BANG THEORY was Thursday's top program, TWO AND A HALF MEN and PERSON OF INTEREST posted week-to-week increases and ELEMENTARY was first...
WWE Main Event debuts with strong first match
Obama vs. Romney was not the only match viewers tuned into on Wednesday night. According to Nielsen overnight data, ION Television’s brand new series,...
Dish drops plans to aim Blockbuster at Netflix
Plans broke down when regulators took longer than expected with satellite transmission approvals.
Big Bang wins night
On CBS, The Big Bang Theory earned a 4.9 adults 18-49 rating, down 2% from a 5.0 for last week's premiere. Two and a...
“Good Morning America” beats “Today” for first time in 16 years
ABC’s GMA is beginning the new television season as the No. 1 morning show in America, topping the “Today” show. Today has been the...