The Ratings Wizard
Monday, Feb. 9, 2004-Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004TV Season Week No. 21NBC’s Thursday night lineup and a dose of “Fear Factor” lifted the network to a win in adults 18 to 49 for the week with a 5.2/14. In total viewers,…
In Depth
Viewership Splits Along Racial Lines
Thirty years ago, if African American viewers wanted to see black performers on TV, their choices were limited to, roughly, “Soul Train,” “Good Times” and the waning days of “The Flip Wilson Show.” Today that universe has expanded considerably. Not…
Breaking News Archives
George Foreman Reality Series Shopped On the heels of news that NBC is developing a boxing reality show with Mark Burnett, Crystal Spring Productions on Monday announced its own project featuring two-time heavyweight world champ George Foreman. The as-yet-untitled series…
Scripps Touts Study of Viewer Interest
Scripps Networks expects advertisers to pay close attention to a new viewer engagement study.With its group of special-interest channels-HGTV, Food Network, DIY-Do It Yourself and Fine Living-Scripps has for years claimed that its viewers watch more intently than do viewers…
TiVo Owners: Don’t Get Paranoid
This is my last column for TelevisionWeek. (The sound you just heard was the popping of a champagne bottle in the office of Michael Powell, the Federal Communications Commission chairman.) I want to thank everyone at the magazine for their…
Maybe Jack is irreplaceable?
The short list to succeed Jack Valenti as chief of the Motion Picture Association of America got even shorter last week, with word that Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., has privately indicated that he is not interested in the $1 million-a-year…
I Want My `CSI’-No, I Demand It
While Disney may be giving Comcast the cold shoulder, CBS and NBC are both in discussions with the nation’s largest cable system operator about participating in an ongoing test of a video-on-demand service Comcast calls On Demand, currently available to…
Fox Snatches `Raymond’ From Tribune
How exactly did Lachlan Murdoch and the Fox owned-and-operated stations steal off-network hit “Everybody Loves Raymond” away from the Tribune station group?That’s the question operators throughout the syndication business have been asking since the deal was announced last week. The…
NUMBERS DOWN FOR ALL CABLE NEWS NETS
Rick Kaplan takes over MSNBC at a time when all news channels are finding it hard to match year-ago ratings performances. It seems the Democrats’ march to the presidential nomination has been of less interest than last year’s loss of…
Plimpton is gone; Dayna TV lives
Dayna Devon spent a decade in TV news before joining “Extra” in 1999; she is now anchor. She looks like a movie star but never wanted to act. That hasn’t stopped her from doing more than half a dozen acting…