The median age of NBC’s “Tonight Show” viewers has fallen to 45 from 55 in Conan O’Brien’s first month as host, The New York Times reports. The audience composition is one bright spot for NBC’s sales department at a time…
"The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien" continued to dominate the late night ratings, notching its fourth straight demographic victory over "Late Show David Letterman" during the week ending June 26. O’Brien also regained his lead over CBS’s "Late Show" among…
President Obama may be critical of Fox News but his administration is giving the network some of its best ratings ever, with a 35% year-to-year jump in total primetime weekday viewers for the second quarter, Broadcasting & Cable says. The…
HBO’s Sunday night lineup continues to perform well for the cable network. “True Blood” delivered 3.7 million viewers and 5.1 million viewers when counting the 11 p.m. replay. The series is averaging a gross audience of 10.8 million viewers per…
Ratings for the BET Awards spiked 61% from last year after the show’s last-minute change into a Michael Jackson tribute, the Associated Press says. Preliminary ratings shows that about 10% of those watching TV Sunday night were tuned to the…
Disney Channel’s “Princess Protection Program” gave the network its highest original movie performance in more than a year with its June 26 debut, says Multichannel News. The premiere drew 8.5 million viewers, putting it third on the network’s original movie…
ABC’s Farrah Fawcett hour emerged as the most popular of the instant news specials broadcast Thursday night as networks rushed to deal with the stunning deaths of two pop culture icons. Primetime on much of broadcast TV took on the…
CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman” beat NBC’s “The Tonight Show” for the first time in viewers for a full week of original broadcasts since December 2005. “Late Show” delivered an average 3.46 million viewers for the week ending June…
Telemundo’s new telenovela, “Los Victorinos,” was the Spanish-language network’s highest-rated original 10 p.m. premiere ever, Mediaweek says. The Tuesday premiere drew 995,000 viewers 18-49, according to Nielsen statistics, and 1.58 million total viewers. –Elizabeth Jensen
There will be 10 best picture nominees at the 2010 Oscars, ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday. The move could dramatically up the star wattage at the ceremony, which like many awards shows, has…