PRO BOWL RATINGS DA KINE

Scheduling the much-maligned Pro Bowl game (it’s generally regarded as a Hawaiian holiday gift to the players at the end of the season) before the Super Bowl instead of after has certainly paid off for the television networks that take turns carrying it. The 2010 and 2011 games each drew 12.3 million viewers. This year’s [...]

CBS WEARS TWO RATINGS CROWNS

CBS was not only the most-watched network among total adults last week — a standing that it usually maintains — but it was also the most-watched among viewers 18-49, a standing that often eludes it. Nevertheless, the No. 1 show for the week remained NBC’s Sunday Night Football. The New York Giants/Dallas Cowboys matchup attracted [...]

KUTCHER’S MEN SLIPS TO FOURTH PLACE

Two and a Half Men with Ashton Kutcher slipped slightly in the ratings again last week, but still managed to remain in the top four and continue as television’s highest-rated sitcom. It was beaten by NBC’s Sunday Night Football contest between Green Bay and Atlanta, CBS’s always-strong NCIS, and ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Among [...]

TV’S NEW #1 SHOW: TWO AND A HALF MEN

When Ashton Kutcher was named to replace Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men, he remarked that it was like winning the lottery. It now appears that the producers of the show and CBS have struck it rich as well, as the season debut of the show with Kutcher ranked No. 1 in the [...]

FINAL RATINGS FOR EMMYS DIP AGAIN

Television’s annual Emmy awards, once one of the medium’s highest-rated annual events, landed in seventh place on the Nielsen ratings list for last week, outranked by NBC’s Sunday-night football telecast, which aired opposite it, a final installment of NBC’s America’s Got Talent and even a repeat of CBS’s 60 Minutes. Helped by football, the debut [...]

THANKS TO TALENT, FOOTBALL, NBC’S GOT RATINGS

It was another week for NBC’s peacock to crow. The struggling network saw its America’s Got Talent rank first and second in the Nielsen ratings, with the two-hour Tuesday edition averaging 12 million viewers and the one-hour Wednesday edition 11.1 million. Moreover, its Sunday night preseason NFL telecast between the Saints and Raiders averaged 9.3 [...]

CBS WON’T BE PAYING FOR BIG “GETS” IN FUTURE, NEWS CHIEF SAYS

CBS News appeared to be the latest network outlet to take itself out of the bidding wars for big “gets.” Speaking to the Television Critics Association on Wednesday, CBS News President Jeff Fager said that the news division will no longer pay huge fees for pictures and home videos as a way to land exclusive [...]

NBC OWNS HALF OF TOP-TEN RATED SHOWS

Time was when NBC’s Thursday lineup alone would provide five contenders or more for Nielsen’s list of the top ten television shows of the week. These days, however, it is extraordinary when any five NBC shows land in the top-ten. But that’s what happened last week. Of course three shows were titled America’s Got Talent, [...]

A BAD WEEK FOR LEBRON IS GREAT FOR ABC

ABC’s telecasts of the NBA finals between the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat dominated the primetime ratings for the second week in a row among total viewers and those 18-49. Along with Monday’s The Bachelorette, the telecasts easily gave ABC the No. 1 spot on the Nielsen top ten list. But NBC’s talent shows, [...]

CURIOSITY FACTOR NOT EVIDENT IN PELLEY DEBUT

Ordinarily when a new anchor debuts on an evening newscast, the audience surges initially — if for no other reason than curiosity. When Katie Couric took over the anchor’s desk on the CBS Evening News in September 2006, she averaged 10.16 million viewers in her first week, far exceeding the competition. Nothing like that surge [...]

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