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    Weekend Protest Coverage Boosts Cable News Audiences; Nielsen Week In Review

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    Police move towards a protester after curfew Saturday, May 30, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests continued following the death of George Floyd, who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    For many Americans, the unrest sweeping through several cities this past weekend was reason enough to stay home and watch it on television.

    The Nielsen company said 4 million people saw coverage of the demonstrations on Fox News Channel at 10 p.m. on Saturday, not usually a big TV-watching time.

    An hour later, 3.2 million people were watching CNN's coverage.

    In many cities, mostly peaceful demonstrations about police treatment of minorities became angrier once the sun went down.

    On a big news week, Fox News Channel had more than double the audience of its sister broadcast network, which was largely devoted to reruns during the first week of the summer season.

    For the week, CBS averaged 3.7 million viewers in primetime. NBC had 3.3 million, ABC had 3.1 million, Fox had 1.41 million, Univision had 1.4 million, ION Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 780,000.

    Fox News led the cable networks with an average of 3.38 million viewers in primetime last week. CNN had 2.33 million, MSNBC had 2 million, History had 1.44 million and HGTV had 1.28 million.

    ABC's "World News Now" led the evening news ratings race with an average of 9.3 million viewers last week. NBC's "Nightly News" had 8.3 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.7 million.

    For the week of May 25-31, the top 20 shows, their networks and viewerships:

    1. "America's Got Talent," NBC, 9.9 million.
    2. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.68 million.
    3. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," ABC, 6.07 million.
    4. "NCIS," CBS, 5.63 million.
    5. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 5.18 million.
    6. "Man With a Plan," CBS, 5.06 million.
    7. "World of Dance," NBC, 5 million.
    8. "FBI," CBS, 4.998 million.
    9. "Mom," CBS, 4.65 million.
    10. "Celebrity Family Feud," ABC, 4.63 million.
    11. "Broke," CBS, 4.45 million.
    12. "Game On!," CBS, 4.44 million.
    13. "Hannity" (Friday), Fox News, 4.34 million.
    14. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 4.26 million.
    15. Movie: "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," CBS, 4.21 million.
    16. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Thursday), Fox News, 4.14 million.
    17. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Friday), Fox News, 4.13 million.
    18. "90-Day Fiance: Before 90," TLC, 4.06 million.
    19. "Floyd Protest Coverage" (Saturday, 10 p.m.), Fox News, 4.01 million.
    20. "Holey Moley," ABC, 4 million.

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    SAG-AFTRA National Board Approves TV/Theatrical Deal; Membership To Vote On Ratification

    Tuesday, May 12, 2026

    The SAG-AFTRA National Board met yesterday (5/11) in a special videoconference meeting and decisively voted to approve the tentative agreement reached for the 2026 TV/Theatrical Contracts. The agreement will now be submitted to the membership for ratification with the board’s recommendation for a “yes” vote.

    The parties have committed to merging the SAG-Producers Pension Plan and AFTRA Retirement Fund into a single merged plan with an additional 1% to the contribution rate effective on the target completion date of January 1, 2028. The merger will increase contribution rates and improve benefits for both SAG and AFTRA participants.

    Additionally, the agreement builds on SAG-AFTRA’s existing guidelines around AI including new provisions strengthening consent and compensation and establishing new and enhanced guardrails on synthetics including:

    --Agreement to a principle strongly favoring human performances.
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    --Performers’ digital replicas are now protected from crossing a picket line during a strike.
    --Protections for minors on the use of their digital replica.
    --Producers must have an articulable business reason to scan someone for a digital replica.
    --Minimum wage rates will increase by 3% annually (compounded) from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2030. The health plan contribution rate will increase by 1% effective July 1, 2026, there will be a one-time increase to the quarterly eligibility premiums, and the earnings thresholds will increase by an additional 1% (at 3% per year instead of 2%) over the... Read More

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