By Andrew Dalton, Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) --A special airing of "Black Panther" in the wake of the death of star Chadwick Boseman was a bright spot for the broadcast networks in a ratings week otherwise utterly dominated by Fox News Channel's coverage of the Republican National Convention.
ABC's last-minute scheduling Sunday night of the Disney and Marvel film about the African superhero drew 6.27 million viewers two days after Boseman died of colon cancer at age 43.
An accompanying tribute to Boseman brought nearly 5 million viewers and was fifth among broadcast shows for the week, the Nielsen company said Tuesday.
But the week overall belonged to Fox News, which had nine of the top 10 and 14 of the top 20 primetime shows.
At No. 1 was Thursday night's airing of the convention and the nomination acceptance speech of President Donald Trump, which drew 9 million viewers. Fox News' Tuesday night convention coverage was second with nearly 8 million.
And the channel's convention-connected airings of "Hannity" filled out the rest of the top five.
The RNC also gave major bumps to the nightly shows of Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham.
Fox News Channel was easily the most watched network, cable or broadcast, of the week with an average of 5.1 million viewers in primetime.
NBC was the most popular broadcast network, averaging 2.77 million viewers in primetime. ABC had 2.75 million, CBS had 2.4 million, ION Television had 1.3 million, Univision had 1.2 million Fox had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 1 million.
Among other cable networks, MSNBC was second with 1.5 million average viewers, CNN had 1.47 million, HGTV had 1.4 million and TLC had 1.2 million.
ABC's "World News Tonight" led the network evening news ratings race, averaging 8.7 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.2 million, and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.2 million.
For the week of Aug. 24-30, the top 20 programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. "Republican National Convention" (Thursday), Fox News, 9 million.
2. "Republican National Convention" (Tuesday), Fox News, 7.9 million.
3. "Hannity" (Thursday), Fox News, 7.8 million.
4. "Hannity" (Tuesday), Fox News, 7.7 million.
5. "Hannity" (Wednesday), Fox News, 7.1 million.
6. "Republican National Convention" (Monday), Fox News, 7 million.
7. "Republican National Convention" (Wednesday), Fox News, 6.9 million.
8. "Hannity" (Monday), Fox News, 6.85 million.
9. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Thursday), Fox News, 6.28 million.
10. "Black Panther," ABC, 6.27 million.
11. "60 Minutes Presents," CBS, 6.2 million.
12. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Tuesday), Fox News, 6.1 million.
13. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Wednesday), Fox News, 5.9 million.
14. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Monday), Fox News, 5.7 million.
15. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday) NBC, 5.6 million.
16. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday) NBC, 5 million.
17. "Chadwick Boseman Tribute," ABC, 4.9 million.
18. "The Ingraham Angle" (Monday), Fox News, 4.8 million.
19. "The Ingraham Angle" (Tuesday), Fox News, 4.6 million.
20. "NCIS," CBS, million. 4.5 million.
Changing OpenAI’s Nonprofit Structure Would Raise Questions and Heightened Scrutiny
The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion.
Nonprofit tax experts have been closely watching OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, since last November when its board ousted and rehired CEO Sam Altman. Now, some believe the company may have reached — or exceeded — the limits of its corporate structure, under which it is organized as a nonprofit whose mission is to develop artificial intelligence to benefit "all of humanity" but with for-profit subsidiaries under its control.
Jill Horwitz, a professor in law and medicine at UCLA School of Law who has studied OpenAI, said that when two sides of a joint venture between a nonprofit and a for-profit come into conflict, the charitable purpose must always win out.
"It's the job of the board first, and then the regulators and the court, to ensure that the promise that was made to the public to pursue the charitable interest is kept," she said.
Altman recently confirmed that OpenAI is considering a corporate restructure but did not offer any specifics. A source told The Associated Press, however, that the company is looking at the possibility of turning OpenAI into a public benefit corporation. No final decision has been made by the board and the timing of the shift hasn't been determined, the source said.
In the event the nonprofit loses control of its subsidiaries, some experts think OpenAI may have to pay for the interests and assets that had belonged to the nonprofit. So far, most observers agree OpenAI has carefully orchestrated its relationships between its nonprofit and its various other corporate entities to try to avoid that.
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