Piers Morgan has set his ratings benchmark for his new CNN show, which debuts tonight, at 650,000 viewers, in line with predecessor Larry King’s ratings in his final months but far below the direct competition on Fox News and MSNBC, Brian…
A new unscripted series in the tradition of the classic documentary "Scared Straight!," A&E’s show "Beyond Scared Straight," scored the highest ratings ever for an original series premiere on the cable net, reports Deadline.com. "Beyond Scared Straight" was the most-watched…
On the strength of a fresh episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” and solid numbers for “Winter Wipeout,” ABC won the night Thursday in the 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reported. ABC averaged a 3.3 rating for the night in adults 18-49, ahead of…
President Barack Obama’s Tucson Memorial speech Wednesday night, carried by all of the broadcast networks from 8:39-9:20 p.m. ET, played heck with the overnight ratings, but ABC was the apparent winner for the night, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. ABC finished the night…
Comedy Central’s "Tosh.0" scored a record on Tuesday night, drawing its biggest audience ever for the show with 3.6 million viewers, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. That means that the audience has more than doubled since its summer premiere, the…
Arbitron wants to expand its out-of-home TV measurement to viewers that watch syndicated afternoon talk shows from their workplace, writes our friend David Goetzl at MediaDailyNews. Says the article, " ‘We need to stop simply piloting stuff, and find those…
A sitcom that last aired on broadcast and drew only 1.8 million viewers during the 2008-09 season premiered Tuesday night to a staggering audience of 7.7 million on cable channel BET, Entertainment Weekly reported. The show is the former CW…
After Jay Leno took back his "Tonight Show" job last year and since Conan O’Brien moved to TBS, Leno has been drawing a much larger audience among late-night viewers, notes the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. But when it…
The ratings are in for Week 1 of Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network, which launched New Year’s Day. The Hollywood Reporter says that, according to final ratings, the network cumulatively drew 18.5 million viewers during its premiere week, which ended Jan….
The ESPN broadcast of the BCS National Championship kept the networks from aggressively going after the prime-time Nielsen ratings, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. ABC counterprogrammed its Disney corporate cousin ESPN with original episodes of “The Bachelor” and “Castle” and came away…