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, [...]

FOX SWEEPS UP MAY RATINGS WIN

Thanks to enormous ratings for the finale of American Idol, Fox trounced its competition in the ratings for total viewers and adults 18-49 in the final week of the May sweeps, which coincides with the final week of the 2010-2011 season. The network averaged 6.9 million viewers for the week, miles ahead of No. 2 [...]

THE BACHELORETTE WINS MONDAY — ON ITS OWN

It didn’t have the penultimate edition of Dancing with the Stars as a lead-in, but ABC’s two-hour The Bachelorette nevertheless drew solid ratings Monday night. With an average of 7.1 million viewers — peaking in the final half hour with nearly 8 million — the show walloped mostly rerun competition from the other major networks. [...]

BACHELORETTE; CONGRATS ARE IN ORDER

ABC said Tuesday that Monday’s season finale of The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose brought it its largest Monday summer audience in over 10 years. Its 11.5 million viewers beat CBS and NBC programming combined by 7 percent in total viewers and by 41 percent in adults 18-49 during the 10:00 p.m. hour. (The only [...]

THE BACHELORETTE RISES TO NO. 1

ABC’s hit summer reality series The Bachelorette rose to the top of the Nielsen ratings heap last week as it drew 7.55 million viewers. The number amounted to not a lot by ordinary standards and reflected the fact not only that CBS gave it powerful competition with its Monday-night rerun slate, but also that viewers [...]

CBS IS FIRST — AND LAST

CBS led again in the Nielsen ratings as the most-watched television network last week, but it was the least-watched network among the key group of adults 18-49. That honor fell to Fox, which has been struggling in the ratings this summer — but which carried Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game last week. While ratings were [...]

MOST POPULAR TV SHOW ON THE WEB: WIPEOUT

Suggesting that television on the Internet does not attract a more highbrow audience than the regular kind, comScore on Thursday said in its first Video Metrix report on audience numbers that the most-watched show on the Web in June was ABC’s Wipeout, with 1.2 million viewers, while the runner-up was ABC’s The Bachelorette. In fact, [...]

CBS SUFFERS RARE MONDAY-NIGHT LOSS TO ABC

ABC’s The Bachelorette mowed down the competition, including the usual Monday-night winner CBS, as it averaged 9.09 million viewers, peaking in the 9:30 p.m. half-hour with 10.12 million. But True Beauty, which followed, lost half that audience and came in second behind CBS’s CSI: Miami at 10:00 p.m. Airing a full slate of repeats, CBS [...]

HOCKEY LIFTS NBC TO DEMO VICTORY

NBC’s coverage of the Stanley Cup Finals continued to draw above-average ratings for Game 2 between Philadelphia and Chicago Monday night. The hockey game averaged 5.91 million viewers — nothing to cheer about — but, more importantly, it ranked No. 1 among adults 18-49 during its last 90 minutes when it averaged 6.46 million. It [...]

ABC OVERHAULS SUMMER SCHEDULE

In place of serialized dramas that tend to draw few viewers during summer repeats, ABC plans to introduce three new dramatic shows this summer that, while similar in content to the ones they’re replacing, can stand on their own. On Sundays, The Gates, starring Frank Grillo, will be replacing Desperate Housewives at 9:00 p.m. and [...]

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