For the first time since returning to NBC’s "The Tonight Show," Jay Leno is pulling in as many younger viewers as Conan O’Brien had before O’Brien was bumped off the show, the New York Post reports. According to Nielsen, Leno’s…
Oprah Winfrey’s new OWN network got off to a good start, with an average of 1 million viewers for its first evening of prime-time programming on Saturday, reports the New York Daily News. That’s an increase of almost 400% over…
Despite a less than stellar season-ending NFL matchup on "Sunday Night Football," NBC easily won the night in both total viewers and the key adults 18-49 demo, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. NBC finished Sunday night with a 5.1 average overall rating…
Here’s a sobering thought for the new year: We Americans watched more TV than ever last year, and our average viewing per week is approaching the number of hours that we’re at work. We’re now averaging 34 hours a week…
ESPN set a record overnight rating for cable for a football game it broadcast on New Year’s Day, reports the Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Saturday’s Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, Calif., between Wisconsin and TCU drew a preliminary…
On another night of mostly repeat programming, ABC parlayed a decent showing by back-to-back reruns of “Modern Family” into a modest overall win in the key demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. ABC finished the night with a 1.7 average rating in adults…
Television viewers tune in faithfully year after year to watch holiday classics such as the stop-action "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and the animated "A Charlie Brown Christmas," but neither of those was this year’s most-watched Christmas special, according to The…
After six weeks on the air, "Conan" is tied as late-night television’s youngest talk show, reports EW.com’s InsideTV blog. The TBS show has a median age of 33, tying it with another TBS late-night program, "Lopez Tonight," the story notes….
2010 wasn’t a good year for CNN, TVNewser reports. The past year proved to be the worst prime-time performance for the cable news network in both total viewers and adults 25 to 54 since at least 1996, the story says….
The postponement of the "Sunday Night Football" game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Minnesota Vikings took a toll on NBC’s Sunday ratings, but the rescheduled game gave the network a huge win Tuesday night, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. NBC destroyed its main…