The ad-skipping Hopper DVR from Dish Network that has been at the center of controversy since it was banned by CBS from receiving a CNET tech award is being rolled out nationally. Dish announced today that the Hopper with Sling…
CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” continued to rack up numbers worthy of television’s top-rated sitcom while ABC celebrated a turnout for “Scandal” that equaled the drama’s season high, based on Nielsen overnights for Thursday prime time. Fox’s “American Idol,” meanwhile,…
NBC is getting out of the business of entertainment programming during prime time on Friday nights. The network announced programming changes that shuffle the schedules of its two newsmagazines and give NBC News total control of Friday prime time, TVNewser.com…
Updated on 2/8/13 at 10:20 a.m. to reflect information in a Los Angeles Times story on this same subject, in both our headline and the body of this item. We needed to have reported on the Times account in our…
A new FX drama series saw its ratings take a steep drop during its second week, reports Deadline.com. The 1980s-era Soviet spy series “The Americans,” starring Keri Russell, fell 39% to just 1.97 million viewers on Wednesday night. In its…
With ABC’s "Modern Family" no longer the highest-rated comedy on television and falling to a season low this week, it’s time to ask what’s happened to the show, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. Blame its lead-in, competition from "American Idol" and…
The audience for Netflix’s new Kevin Spacey drama series “House of Cards” could rival the viewership of some dramas on premium cable networks — but we can’t be sure, TheWrap reports. That’s because the streaming service is keeping its numbers…
Even with viewer numbers slipping for Fox’s “American Idol,” the singing competition continues to be the top-rated show on Wednesday nights, pushing Fox to another prime-time win, based on Nielsen overnights. TVbytheNumbers.com reports that the two-hour “Idol” was down 16%…
NBC has made a small, but apparently meaningful, positive gesture to a freshman drama series. Deadline.com reports that the network ordered an additional episode of “Chicago Fire,” bringing the season total to 24. It was just last week that NBC…
Revenues for the Sinclair Broadcast Group soared 58.8% in the 4th quarter, compared with a year earlier, reports TVNewsCheck. Similarly, TVNewsCheck separately reports that "Gannett Co. reported strong fourth quarter financial results that included total television revenues that were 45.7% higher" than a year…