After ABC’s decision to cancel two of its long-running soap operas, which has been the focus of protests and complaints from soap fans, the ratings are in for the 2010-11 season: Every daytime drama is down, except for ABC’s canceled…
Ad buyers are questioning whether CBS will be successful in its gambit to get price hikes of as much as 18% in the upfront advertising market, reports our friend Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. As TVWeek has previously reported, Fox, which…
NBC got a shot in the ratings arm from Tuesday night’s two-hour season premiere of “America’s Got Talent” and a new installment of the network’s breakout singing competition “The Voice,” TVbytheNumbers.com reported. “Talent” had its most-watched season premiere ever with…
As the only major network to air a full slate of new programming, ABC coasted to an easy ratings win Monday night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. ABC averaged a 2.2 rating for the night in the 18-49 demo, well ahead of Univision…
E! reported that the season finale of “Khloe & Lamar” delivered big numbers for the network Monday night. The telecast produced a 1.89 household rating and almost 2.5 million total viewers, more than four times the average for the prior…
Matthew Singerman has gone from a consultant to an executive position with ReelzChannel, Deadline.com reports. Singerman has been named senior vice president of programming, the story says. Singerman was instrumental in "The Kennedys" miniseries winding up on ReelzChannel after TV…
Younger viewers continue to flee the top broadcast networks, according to The Hollywood Reporter, citing overall ratings for the 2010-11 television season. Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC and CW all reported declines among viewers 18 to 49 years old compared with…
The real reason Nancy Grace decided to walk away from her hit HLN show "Swift Justice" was not money or control, the New York Post reports. The real reason is more mundane: She wanted to be closer to her family,…
The return of Fox’s "So You Think You Can Dance" Thursday night was a ratings success, as Fox wound up with a comfortable win in the 18-49 demo for the night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. But it helped that all the other…
Wednesday’s finale of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” drew a huge audience, piling up the show’s best household rating in more than 17 years, The New York Times reported in its Media Decoder blog. The finale had a 13.3 household rating…