Turner Broadcasting is trying to sell "Conan" with a new pitch, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. That approach is "forget the TV ratings, look at his online popularity," Steinberg writes. It’s the natural response to the weakened ratings and…
One network broadcast dominated Sunday night’s ratings, according to early figures, racking up the best numbers of any show so far in fall 2011’s premiere week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The big show was NBC’s “Sunday Night Football,” which…
The giddy spree that was fall 2011 premiere week winds down this weekend, although some might say it already has. TVLine.com offers its roundup of the highlights, including just one new show Friday night: CBS’s “A Gifted Man.” Plenty of…
CBS’s season-opening double shot of “The Big Bang Theory” got the Tiffany Network off to a strong start last night, but in the end it was a little too much “X Factor” as Fox scored its first win ever for…
With numbers in for the 2010-11 season, there’s some big news for the network morning newscasts: All three added viewers in the key news demo of viewers 25 to 54 for the first time since the 1992-93 season, reports TVNewser.com….
Overnight metered market ratings are in for the first Thursday night broadcast battle of fall 2011, according to TVbytheNumbers.com, and we have a winner. CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” was the top show of the night, with the story reporting…
Lifetime has given a fourth-season order to a scripted series described as a legal comedy-drama-fantasy about a fashion model’s soul that lives in the body of a plus-size woman, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. "Drop Dead Diva," which has averaged…
The stakes are high for the broadcast networks tonight, when the opening salvos will be fired in the battle to be this season’s king of must-see TV. Thursday night won’t be the sitcom-dominated barrel of laughs it once was. New…
Fox’s much-hyped premiere of “The X Factor” Wednesday night earned solid overnight ratings, but a show that aired opposite it stole the headlines, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. “X Factor” also failed to reach the heights of the show it’s most often being…
"Nielsen Wednesday [Sept. 21, 2011] began informing clients about a major snafu … that generates gross ratings points (GRPs) for the multibillion [dollar] television advertising marketplace," reports Joe Mandese at MediaPost. Mandese continues: "Nielsen said the glitch has been generating incorrect…