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The Senate’s vote confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent viewers flocking to Fox News Channel, which recorded its biggest Saturday audience in more than a decade.
Fox’s daytime audience was bigger than any for the network since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, while its Saturday...
After the first week of the television season, Tim Allen has bragging rights over Candice Bergen.
The return of Allen’s sitcom, “Last Man Standing,” reached 8.1 million viewers on Fox last Friday night. That was more than the 7.5 million people who tuned into the revival of Bergen’s “...
“America’s Got Talent” ended its summer run last week with the most-watched entertainment programs on television since May, although its popularity dipped this summer.
Just under 13 million people watched the final two episodes of the NBC competition last week, where magician Shin Lim was...
Television’s biggest night wasn’t that big. The Emmy Awards drew a record-low audience of just over 10.2 million people, down 11 percent from the past two years.
Michael Che and Colin Jost of “Saturday Night Live” hosted the awards show on NBC Monday. Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”...
The Miss America ceremony subtracted the swimsuit competition for the first time in its 98-year history, and subtracted one million television viewers, too.
The Nielsen company said 4.34 million people watched the annual ceremony on ABC Sunday, down 19 percent from the 5.35 million...
TV viewers are idling away the final weeks of summer the way they started it: with reality programs.
Half of last week’s 20 most-watched programs were unscripted contests, according to Nielsen Co. figures released Wednesday.
The field was topped by NBC’s two episodes of “America’s...
If it’s a lousy week for President Donald Trump, it’s usually a good week for Rachel Maddow.
MSNBC’s marquee personality took advantage of a busy week of bad news for the president, led by former lawyer Michael Cohen’s plea deal and former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s conviction on...
It may have been a lousy night for Madonna at the MTV Video Music Awards, but the event offered some glimmers of hope for the network.
The Nielsen company estimated that 5.23 million watched Monday’s annual tribute to what’s current in popular music across several Viacom-owned networks....
There’s nothing like a late charge from Tiger Woods to juice the ratings of a major golf tournament.
CBS reached 8.5 million viewers Sunday for final-round competition at the PGA Championship from St. Louis, a whopping 73 percent increase from the 4.9 million people who watched the same...
NBC cut through the summer doldrums with the best week for a television network since the NBA Finals were seen on ABC two months ago.
NBC was led, as is typical during the summer months, by “America’s Got Talent.” The competition show was seen by 11.8 million people last week, more than...