Big ratings are expected tonight when Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin addresses the Republican National Convention to accept her party’s nomination for vice president, the MarketWatch reports. Palin is the first female Republican vice presidential nominee and a relative unknown to…
Wednesday night’s second-season finale of Bravo’s “Shear Genius” drew an estimated 2.54 million viewers, Multichannel News reports. The numbers are up 52% from the previous week’s 1.67 million total viewers. The biggest news, however, was the finale’s 95% improvement over…
As the U.S. population grows, so does the number of television households, MediaPost reports. The Nielsen Company estimates the number of TV homes will increase 1.5% to total 114.5 million homes for the 2008-09 TV season. The fastest-growing audiences are…
PBS’ household ratings for the first night of the Democratic National Convention were down from 2004, but they were a 75% improvement on its prime-time average, Broadcasting & Cable reports. PBS, the only broadcast network to devote all of prime…
The premiere of Disney Channel’s made-for-TV movie “The Cheetah Girls: One World” Saturday evening pulled in an estimated 6.2 million viewers, Multichannel News reports. Despite going up against coverage of the Beijing Olympics, “One World” was the No. 1 prime-time…
A CONCACAF soccer match Wednesday night between Mexico and Honduras scored NBC Universal’s Telemundo its largest 18-to-49 audience ever, Multichannel News reports. The match, which helps determine qualifiers for the quadrennial World Cup tournament, drew just over 2 million viewers….
Some syndicated shows’ ratings were up despite sometimes going up against ratings grabbers like golf and the Olympics, TVNewsday reports. Formats including talk shows and game shows saw spikes in viewership. “Rachael Ray” received the biggest boost, averaging 13% more…
With so much attention going to NBC Universal’s TAMi viewership measurement for the Beijing Olympics, ESPN wants to remind advertisers that it originated measuring its multiplatform coverage of sporting events, reports Advertising Age. ESPN, with sister network ABC, will try…
Although CBS’ “Jericho” and “Moonlight” won’t be coming back this fall, they demonstrated remarkable audience stability, SyFy Portal reports. The two genre series came in first and second, respectively, on a list of 13 shows tracked using Nielsen Media Research…
A group funded by Nielsen Media is looking to other research companies to find a new method for measuring television audiences based on viewing data from digitals set-top boxes, Media Daily News reports. Nielsen and rival TNS Media Research have…