CBS’S MOONVES TREADS CAREFULLY IN DIGITAL BIZ

The emergence of digital businesses such as Hulu, Netflix and Amazon has opened new revenue streams for CBS, but each one must be separately appraised, CBS chief Les Moonves told a media conference at UCLA on Saturday. Moonves said that recent deals with Netflix and Hulu for content on The CW, which CBS owns with [...]

IDOL DOWN BUT STILL AT THE TOP

Fox added an additional night of American Idol to its lineup last week and, along with a strong finish for its Daytona 500 coverage, was thereby able to claim the top spot on the Nielsen ratings list among viewers 18-49, while CBS nabbed the victory for total adults, with NCIS once again holding the top [...]

MARCH MADNESS ON MOBILE DEVICES TO COME AT A PRICE

In an apparent attempt to avoid the pitfall that ensnared the newspaper business, Time Warner’s Turner Networks will no longer provide the NCAA’s March Madness on Demand for free. Moreover, its broadcast partner in the basketball hoopla, CBS, said that its online coverage of the college basketball tournament will not be available on mobile devices [...]

IDOL‘S RATINGS: BANGED AGAIN

The first half hour of Fox’s American Idol vied with CBS’s The Big Bang Theory Thursday night, and it appeared that — like last week — ratings results for the two shows among adults 18-49 would come down to a photo finish when final numbers are counted, with actual differences statistically insignificant. According to preliminary [...]

PERSON TO PERSON REVIVAL FLOPS ON NIGHT NO 1

Person to Person, the celebrity interview show of the 1950s that saw Edward R. Murrow in a studio talking to guests in their homes, returned on Wednesday and promptly flopped. With most viewers unaware of the original term (“person to person” was an expensive long-distance calling rate in which an operator requested a specific person [...]

CBS’S MOONVES WOULD HAVE PAID MORE THAN NBC FOR GLOBES

In a court filing, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has submitted a transcript of a deposition by CBS Chairman Les Moonves in which he said that he had informed HFPA President Philip Berk that he was prepared to pay $25 million over five years for rights to the Golden Globes Awards. “It was an opening [...]

FOOTBALL RECHARGES SATURDAY NIGHT

Saturday night provided yet another reminder to television executives that if they give viewers something worthwhile to watch on that night, they’ll flock to their sets just as they do any other night of the year. NBC’s telecast of the Detroit-New Orleans NFC Wild Card Game attracted 27.9 million viewers in primetime. Yes, that was [...]

GREY’S ANATOMY RETURNS, TOPS PRIMETIME ON THURSDAY

The return of an all-new episode of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy after the show’s nearly two-month absence attracted more than 12 million viewers on Thursday and was the highest-rated show of the night, according to overnight figures from Nielsen Research. In fact, ABC performed quite strongly throughout the night, landing in first place among viewers 18-49. [...]

CBS A HIT ON THURSDAY EVEN WITH RERUNS; NBC COLLAPSES

All of the broadcast networks aired reruns Thursday night, with CBS far in the lead in every half hour of primetime among both total adults and 18-49 year-olds, according to Nielsen Media Research. Its 8:00 p.m. comedy The Big Bang Theory actually drew 10.2 million viewers, nearly as many as those watching all of the [...]

UNIVISION TAKES OVER AS NUMERO UNO ON MONDAY

With all of the other major broadcast networks airing mostly reruns, Spanish-language Univision was able to eke out a victory as the most-watched TV network Monday night among 18-49-year-old viewers, coming out slightly ahead of CBS. Indeed, the finale of La Fuerza del Destino drew 5.4 million viewers and stood its ground even in the [...]

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