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David Muir is celebrating his fifth anniversary as “World News Tonight” anchor with something that’s rare in television: a larger audience.
The ABC newscast finished its year-long season last week with an average of 8.6 million viewers a night, the Nielsen company said. It’s the third...
The new television season hasn’t begun yet, but the football season has, and it’s carrying the networks in the interim.
Four NFL games finished among the Nielsen company’s top 12 shows last week, led by the Sunday night matchup of Philadelphia against Atlanta.
ABC devoted its...
Television networks will be happy to know that ratings will go up for many of their programs next year, simply because the Nielsen company will count more people.
The company whose numbers provide the currency for the TV industry says its change will begin next September, when it begins...
The opening of college football’s season was welcome news for ABC in an otherwise quiet week for television.
The network won the weekly ratings competition on the strength of games that took over the network’s schedule on Saturday night (Oregon vs. Auburn) and Sunday (Oklahoma vs. Houston...
If Taylor Swift, Missy Elliot and a 1990s rap reunion couldn’t halt the shrinkage of MTV’s television audience for its Video Music Awards, perhaps nothing can.
The show was seen by 4.9 million viewers live on Monday across 12 different Viacom-owned networks, the Nielsen company said. That...
“America’s Got Talent” wasn’t content with just the top spot in the Nielsen company’s rankings of the most popular television programs last week. This time it took the top two.
First place is familiar territory for NBC’s talent competition. It has been the most-watched summer series for...
In a week dominated by competition shows, “America’s Got Talent” dominated the competition.
NBC’s variety showcase brought in 9.7 million viewers last week according to the Nielsen company’s ratings. The show chose the singers, comedians, dancers and beatboxers that will be on its season-...
Summer’s most popular entertainment series, NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” had a little competition last week.
ABC’s “The Bachelorette” delivered its best ratings for the franchise in two years along with a surprise finale last week, when Hannah Brown revealed she had called off the...
The CBS crime series “Instinct” finished first last week in what seems like a race to the bottom.
It was the 20th most-watched program on the Nielsen company’s weekly list, and the only comedy or drama scripted series to make the Top 20. There were no scripted series that were among the...
CBS chose the middle of the summer for Norah O’Donnell to debut as “CBS Evening News” anchor, so probably should not be surprised that not too many people noticed.
The Nielsen company said that 5.24 million people watched her newscast each day on average last week. That’s essentially...