TWO SHOWS TIE FOR FIRST PLACE IN RATINGS AGAIN

For the second week in a row — and the first time in memory — the same two shows tied for first place in the Nielsen ratings. ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and CBS’s NCIS each attracted 18 million total adult viewers. Fox’s American Idol was close on their heels with 17.9 million viewers. Overall, [...]

MARCH MADNESS TOPS THE VOICE, DWTS

Monday night may now be regarded as the night when upwards of 25 million viewers tune in at 8:00 to either ABC’s Dancing with the Stars or NBC’s The Voice, and indeed, the latter show attracted 10.7 million viewers, while Dancing pulled in 16.5 million. Nevertheless, those two figures were overshadowed later in the evening [...]

GOOD MORNING AMERICA SET TO OVERTAKE TODAY NEXT WEEK

It may turn out to be the irony of ironies. For the first time in seven years, ABC’s Good Morning America seems likely to overtake NBC’s the Today show in the ratings next week, the New York Times observed today (Friday). Already, GMA has moved to within 137,000 viewers behind Today, according to last week’s [...]

NIELSEN WILL RATE IPAD USAGE

Tens of millions of Americans have purchased Apple’s iPad digital tablet, and all of the major television networks have designed free apps for it to allow users to access a limited number of their TV shows. But so far no one is quite sure how many people are actually using those apps, which programs are [...]

NCIS BEATS OUT TALENT CONTESTS

CBS’s NCIS was back on top of the Nielsen ratings chart again last week, beating out such formidable competitors as ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, Fox’s American Idol and NBC’s The Voice. Its margin of victory was slight — and insignificant statistically. It drew 19.06 million viewers (an 11.9 rating and a 19 share) to [...]

THE VOICE BEATS AMERICAN IDOL — AGAIN

Fox’s American Idol is no longer the top-rated talent contest on the air. NBC’s The Voice is. For the fifth time in the last six weeks, The Voice came out on top among viewers 18-49, the age group that advertisers primarily spend their money on. Idol, however, led among total adults — counting 18.69 million [...]

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 [...]

SMASHING RATINGS FOR THE VOICE; FOR SMASH, TOO

Ratings for NBC’s The Voice and Smash climbed appreciably on Monday with the talent contest drawing 16.3 million viewers (peaking in the second hour with 17 million) and the musical drama 7.9 million. That gave the struggling network another win for Monday night, with ABC coming in a distant second with 7.6 million viewers. CBS, [...]

MODERN FAMILY NOW REIGNS AS TV’S TOP SHOW

Driven by viewers who watch programs that they record on DVRs, ABC’s Modern Family has become the top-rated show on television among adults 18-49, according to the New York Times. The newspaper observed that while 7.1 million viewers in that demo watch the show live, some 3.1 million watch it within seven days of the [...]

DVR GAINING POPULARITY

Thanks to the DVR, Americans are spending more time in front of their TV sets than ever before, Nielsen Research observed on Wednesday. In a new study, Nielsen noted that DVR usage has grown from 1.6 percent in 2006 to nearly 8 percent in 2011 — 10 percent in the case of women 18-54. The [...]

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