Ratings for the new season of “American Idol” are off from past seasons, but they’re still strong enough to give Fox nightly wins in the prime-time tallies. It happened again Thursday, when Fox ended the night as the top network…
The former KOCE-TV, which became PBS SoCal after KCET-TV split from PBS over a dispute over dues, has seen its ratings more than double since it took on the full PBS schedule on Jan. 1, reports the Los Angeles Times’…
It’s a rough way to go about boosting a network’s ratings, but the attack in Cairo on Anderson Cooper and his CNN crew apparently had some positive fallout for the cable network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Following the attack,…
NBC has seen enough of one of its low-rated dramas and has pulled the show from its midseason schedule, writes James Hibberd in Entertainment Weekly’s Inside TV blog. The show is “Chase,” which has been a low achiever in its…
"American Idol" was a runaway winner in the Nielsen ratings Wednesday night, powering Fox to an easy win for the night, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. Fox finished the night with a 5.7 average in the 18-49 demo, more than double its nearest…
With "NCIS" star Mark Harmon signing a new two-year contract to continue on the program, CBS has renewed the show for its ninth season, reports Deadline.com. According to the story, Harmon’s deal will give him more than $500,000 per episode,…
News Corp.’s second-quarter profit more than doubled, helped by a 12% rise in advertising at the company’s U.S. channels and a five-fold jump in operating profit from its television unit, Bloomberg reports. The television unit was helped by higher political…
CBS’s Tuesday night prime-time lineup, led by a dominating "NCIS," easily won the Nielsen ratings race, according the TVbytheNumbers.com. CBS finished the night with a 3.5 average rating in the 18-49 demo, topping NBC’s 2.9 average, Fox’s 1.7, Univision’s 1.5…
Piers Morgan’s interview show on CNN last week finished third with an average of 978,000 viewers; almost identical ratings compared with the ratings Larry King was getting in the time slot a year earlier, writes Deadline.com’s Nellie Andreeva in a piece entitled "CNN Hires…
A January ratings plunge for Glenn Beck’s show on Fox News leads to the question of whether the talk show host is losing his popularity, writes Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. "Glenn Beck" averaged 1.8 million viewers in January, representing a…