Fox’s Sunday afternoon broadcast of the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s first major race of the year, was the most watched NASCAR event in three years, according to The Hollywood Reporter. An average of 15.6 million total viewers tuned in, a 17%…
With the CBS lineup slipping in the Nielsen overnights from a week ago, Monday’s ratings race turned into a three-way battle between CBS, ABC and Fox, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. ABC came away with a slim victory over CBS in the adults…
After Keith Olbermann left MSNBC and was replaced by "Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word," the network’s ratings are down about 10% from the same time a year earlier, reports the Hollywood Reporter. O’Donnell’s ratings are down 22% from Olbermann’s ratings in…
Days after Larry King complained on London’s Radio 4 that Piers Morgan, who replaced King on CNN, might have been "oversold" and is "not that dangerous," King will appear on "Piers Morgan Tonight" on Wednesday, reports the New York Post…
TNT’s 2011 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday night pulled in the biggest audience since 2003, with 9.1 million total viewers tuning in and earning a 5.2 household rating,reports B&C. The game, in which the West beat the East by 148-143,…
Animal Planet has greenlit two summer series, both revolving around the theme of fish. According to an announcement, "’Hillbilly Handfishin’ premieres in August and introduces the wild sport of noodling, where adventure-thirsty city slickers head to Oklahoma to submerge themselves…
The ten clock nightly hour on TV used to be owned by the broadcast networks. No more, writes Bill Carter in the New York Times. "For most weeks this winter, about six million viewers 18 to 49 (the prime age…
Fox’s “American Idol” continued to fall short of last year’s ratings, but Thursday’s installment–along with a decent showing by its lead-out, “Bones”–was enough to lift Fox to another easy ratings win for the night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. Fox wound up with…
NBC will lead off the broadcast networks’ upfront presentations–the network’s first chance to unveil new programming under its new Comcast Corp. ownership, B&C reported. The network’s presentation has been scheduled for Monday morning, May 16, when it will be the…
The biggest winner in the competition between IBM’s supercomputer Watson and the two human competitors Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter may be "Jeopardy!," B&C reports. The three nights that featured the human-vs.-computer competition averaged a 9.1 rating/17 share in the…