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Nothing beats athletes clashing on the field for impressive TV ratings, but the skirmishes of CNBC’s Republican debate came close.
NFL programming and baseball’s World Series dominated last week’s ratings, taking seven of the top 20 spots, the...
Telemundo, the perpetual little brother to Univision in the competition between Spanish-language television networks catering to a U.S. market, is closing the gap this season with the help of fast-paced soap operas involving characters in the drug trade....
Viewership at each of the six largest broadcast networks was down last week compared to the same week a year before. But given how television is changing, it’s hard to say whether that means viewers are rejecting the programming choices.
Declines at...
The zombies on “The Walking Dead” may be starting to stagger.
An estimated 14.6 million viewers watched the season premiere of the hit AMC series on Sunday, the Nielsen company said. That’s down from the 17.3 million who saw last year’s season opener...
Football and CBS - sometimes both -dominated ratings during the second week of the television season.
Increasingly, though, the Nielsen company’s weekly list of most popular programs is most valuable as a first draft report on how the business is...
“Empire” came back to the Fox lineup with a flourish, while NBC’s thriller “Blindspot” looks to be one of the season’s hottest new shows.
Meanwhile, reliable CBS continued atop the Nielsen company’s television rankings as a new broadcast season...
Nearly twice as many people as usual watched the Spanish-language television institution “Sabado Gigante.” They turned out for the show’s farewell on Univision after 53 years on the air.
The Nielsen company said that 3.4 million people saw host Don...
Television’s fall season is already in full swing — the football season.
Fresh entertainment programming doesn’t begin until next week, after the Emmy Awards. Football is so dominant now that 11 of the 20 most-watched primetime programs last week...
The television ratings story was a tale of two Foxes.
Fox News Channel was the highest-rated cable network for the fifth straight week last week, the Nielsen company said. The network has reached that milestone only once before, during the breakout...
MTV boosted the viewership of its annual Video Music Awards, this year hosted by Miley Cyrus, with a little help from its friends.
The Nielsen company said just over 5 million people watched the program on MTV on Sunday night, which would have...