Nielsen and media agency GroupM announced a pioneering collaboration today that will develop a new measurement service integrating media planning and measurement across television and the Internet. The companies announced: “The goal is to overcome challenges posed by separate media…
Coverage of the “March Madness” NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship through Saturday’s telecasts received the event’s best ratings in 18 years, Multichannel News reports. Tournament programming on TBS, CBS, TNT and TruTV through March 17 pulled in a collective 5.3 U.S….
NBC’s bubble show “Community” saw a surge in viewers as it returned from hiatus Thursday, and the series premiere of “Missing” gave ABC its biggest audience in its time period in 14 months. Both series aired at 8 p.m. With…
Fox is pulling back on its strategy for a sitcom that has suffered with skimpy ratings and negative reviews, Entertainment Weekly reports. The network had planned to move “I Hate My Teenage Daughter” from Tuesday nights to Wednesdays. Instead, Fox…
Nickelodeon unveiled at its upfront presentation a greatly explanded slate of new programming — 650 hours, more than twice what it presented at last year’s event, Advertising Age reports. The cable network has been hit with a ratings decline and…
“Game Change,” the television movie based on the emergence of Sarah Palin in the 2008 presidential race, was the most watched original film on HBO in almost eight years, reports Entertainment Weekly. The Saturday 9 p.m. premiere of the movie…
Ratings may not matter so much for shows like "Community," says our friend Bill Carter in The New York TImes. Carter calls the NBC show from Sony Pictures Entertainment "one of the first shows of the so-called post-television era." "Community"…
Oprah Winfrey’s cable network OWN scored its highest rating yet with a recent telecast, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The program was Sunday’s interview by Winfrey with Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late singer Whitney…
Boosted by a rare ratings achievement from a new show, ABC claimed a ratings win Sunday night in the key 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The controversial new series “GCB” may have been aided by protests against the show over its…
NBC, which desperately needs a hit, apparently let one slip through its hands, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The story reports: “NBC passed on current cultural favorite ‘Downton Abbey,’ produced by NBCUniversal’s Carnival Films studio in London, believing that American audiences…