The ratings for Fox’s broadcast of the National League Championship Series game between the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants were good, but the numbers from the other networks reveal a strong showing for CBS’s "Criminal Minds" and ABC’s "Modern…
With the new TV season about six weeks old, figures from Nielsen show a clear trend, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. Nine of the top 10 shows–in fact, all of the top nine shows–are NFL games. The only non-football broadcast to crack the…
The new afternoon talk show on CBS, "The Talk," began broadcasting Monday and initial numbers are robust, reports TV Guide. The first show attracted 2.25 million total viewers, and in the women 18-49 demographic it was up 22% over last…
The Hub, the new children’s network co-owned by toy maker Hasbro and Discovery, is taking a page from Nick at Nite and seeking to build an audience by airing "Happy Days" and other former TV hits, reports MediaPost’s MediaDailyNews. The…
NBC was the big winner of the Sunday night Nielsen race, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. Fox had the NFL broadcast overrun of the late-afternoon game and the second game of the National League Championship Series, featuring the San Francisco Giants vs….
[F]or the current fourth week of the season, NBC’s new Monday-Thursday 10 p.m. lineup is poised for the first time to fall below the rating levels of the ill-fated ‘Jay Leno Show’ for the same week a year ago," writes…
NBC’s much-hyped live edition of "30 Rock" set a season high with 6.7 million total viewers and a 3.0 rating in the 18-49 demo, according to TVbytheNumbers.com, but that wasn’t enough to match the numbers for "$#*! My Dad Says,"…
The highest-rated show Wednesday night was ABC’s Emmy winner "Modern Family," but overall CBS delivered the strongest prime-time lineup, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. At 8 p.m. CBS’s "Survivor" led the way with an average rating of 3.65 in the 18-49 demographic…
CNN’s ratings surged on Tuesday night, as it broadcast the first rescue of 33 miners who had been trapped in a Chilean mine, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The cable-news network, usually in third place, jumped to…
Fox and CBS have reason to be pleased with the continued success of "Glee" and "NCIS," respectively, as the two shows continue to be the highest-rated programs on Tuesday night despite going head to head, reports TVbytheNumbers.com. At 8 p.m….