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Jane Pauley’s much-anticipated foray into the talk-show space debuted to solid numbers Monday, pulling an average 2.4 rating for its primary runs in metered markets, according to Nielsen. That’s down 8 percent from its lead-in but up 4 percent from…
Tom Brokaw, who will cede his “NBC Nightly News” anchor chair to Brian Williams after the presidential election, will be much in the spotlight Monday, Sept. 13, when he will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Annual News…
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Tuesday that Mischa Barton of “The O.C.,” Jimmy Kimmel of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and Chris Noth of “Sex and the City” will be among the presenters at the 56th Annual Primetime Emmy…
Monday’s season premieres of NBC’s “Fear Factor” and “Last Comic Standing” beat out Fox’s new reality show “The Complex: Malibu” in both households and adults 18 to 49, with “Fear Factor” winning the night among adults 18 to 49 with…
The Summer Olympics in Athens remained a top prime-time television draw in their second week, with NBC once again easily winning the ratings race. According to Nielsen Media Research, the week of Aug. 23-29 belonged to NBC, with the top…
Nielsen Media Research has signed on media agency ZenithOptimedia Group, New York, as the first client for its product placement measuring service, Place*Views. The Web-based application will provide brand and product information that appears in television programming. Place*Views will show…
The Olympics helped boost MSNBC’s “Hardball With Chris Matthews” past CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” for the third time in five months, according to data from Nielsen Media Research.“Hardball” averaged 576,000 viewers for the Nielsen month of August (July 26-Aug. 27),…
In an effort to force the Federal Communications Commission to set final ground rules for the carriage of the broadcasting industry’s digital TV signals on cable, Paxson Communications has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to intervene. “It…
The National Cable & Telecommunications Association today announced that it has hired the executive search firm Korn/Ferry International to find a candidate to succeed Robert Sachs, the association’s president and CEO. After getting a cold shoulder from the association’s board,…
Gerald McRaney, star of the upcoming The WB sitcom “Commando Nanny,” underwent surgery Monday to remove a cancerous growth from his lung. Mr. McRaney’s publicist Henri Bollinger said in a statement his client had the procedure at MD Anderson Cancer…