While NBC’s prime-time coverage of the London Games is receiving the highest-ever ratings for an Olympics, the network’s online coverage is also scoring well among viewers, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker. During the Games’ first week, 75 million…
NBC’s Olympics coverage from London continues to crush the competition in prime time, with Thursday’s coverage — highlighted by a historic gold medal in the all-around competition for U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas — pulling in an 11.2 average rating in…
Nielsen overnights for Wednesday night reflect what has been the pattern since the Olympics opened: huge ratings for NBC, with not much to shout about on the other broadcast networks. The London Olympics continue to pace ahead of the Beijing…
ABC’s “Good Morning America” gave NBC an unhappy sendoff in the week going into the Olympics, notching a ratings win in the last remaining category that NBC’s “Today” show still owned. “GMA” won the ratings across the board for the…
Time Warner Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes, speaking on the company’s quarterly earnings conference call, was critical of CNN’s recent ratings, reassuring analysts that the company has made CNN a high priority, TVNewser.com reports. “To be clear, we are not satisfied…
NBC and Comcast expected to lose money on the Olympics, but in an earnings call today NBCUniversal chief Steve Burke said it’s now looking like the company will break even on the venture, Deadline.com reports. “We are way ahead of…
NBC’s Olympics coverage hasn’t helped the network’s troubled “Today” show as much as NBC had hoped, the New York Daily News reports. Examining Monday’s preliminary numbers, ratings are way up from last week, but down 14% from the show’s results…
CBS has seen enough of a new show that has got off to a rough start, pulling it from the schedule after just two low-rated episodes, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed. The show is the dating program “3.”…
NBC’s ratings juggernaut Olympics coverage continued to crush the competition in prime time Monday night, with most of the broadcast competition staying out of it by airing repeat programming. The few rival broadcast nets who did try out fresh programming…
Oprah Winfrey’s sputtering OWN cable network “remains on track” to reach profitability during the second half of 2013, Discovery CEO David Zaslav said today, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Discovery is a partner in OWN. The company previously projected that…