After critics claimed that News Corp.’s $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association proved the company isn’t as fair and balanced as it claims, Fox News has agreed to air an ad critical of the donation, the Hollywood Reporter…
The Australian vacation package Oprah Winfrey is giving to her audience has already paid a small dividend, reports Deadline.com. The premiere of the final season of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" drew a 6.8 rating and 17 share, representing a 3%…
The season premieres Monday of CW’s “Gossip Girl” and “90210” were down from a year earlier in total viewers and the 18-49 demo, according to The Hollywood Reporter. But there were bright spots for the network as viewership for “Gossip…
Even though Chelsea Handler drew a scathing review from The New York Times for her job as host of the MTV Video Music Awards, the telecast attracted its best ratings in eight years, reports the Los Angeles Times’ ShowTracker blog. An…
Bill Carter of The New York Times takes a look at the discrepancy between a recent TiVo poll in which viewers said they’re growing tired of reality programs and the ratings reality: Unscripted television shows have dominated this summer. Out…
Football was a big factor in the Sunday night Nielsen ratings, helping both Fox and NBC, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. At 7 p.m. Fox’s NFL overrun into prime time collected a huge 8.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic, ahead of NBC’s…
HBO should be having a great year given that it’s airing the third season of the hit "True Blood" and earlier this year debuted the award-winning "The Pacific," but instead HBO found itself with its lowest number of subscribers in…
The combination of Brett Favre and the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints resulted in the best-ever Nielsen ratings for the kickoff of the National Football League season, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The NBC broadcast of the game, in which the Saints beat…
NBC’s goal this season is to displace ABC as the third-ranked network in the ratings, Bloomberg reports. "Our real competition is ABC," says Angela Bromstad, president of prime-time entertainment, the article notes, adding that that means dislodging ABC from its…
While critics have praised FX’s new show "Terriers," the program got off to a slow start on Wednesday with just 1.6 million viewers, reports Joe Adalian at New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. Less than half of those viewers were in…