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SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL CRUSHES OPPOSITION

December 10, 2012 by · Leave a Comment 

Some 18.8 million viewers watched NBC’s Sunday Night Football coverage of the Detroit Lions/Greenbay Packers game, peaking in the 9:00 p.m. hour with 19.9 million. The season finale of CBS’s The Amazing Race was the only thing that could possibly be described as competition as it nabbed 9.3 million viewers. Earlier in the evening, an […]

CBS, NBC ANNOUNCE MID-SEASON LINE-UP

November 15, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

CBS and NBC each announced mid-season changes on Monday, and in the case of CBS, the changes were minuscule. The new Rob Schneider comedy ¡Rob!, about a middle-aged bachelor who marries a Hispanic woman, will debut Jan. 12, replacing Rules of Engagement, and a third season of Undercover Boss will debut on Jan. 15, replacing […]

ABC’S SECRET MILLIONAIRE REMAINS HOT ON SUNDAY

March 14, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

ABC appears to have a solid new hit on Sundays with its new inspirational reality series, Secret Millionaire. In its second week, the show, which was cast off by Fox after so-so ratings in 2008, averaged 11.3 million viewers Sunday night — down just 10 percent from its premiere and winning the 8:00 p.m. hour, […]

ABC’S GOT A SECRET — AND IT’S A HIT

March 9, 2011 by · Leave a Comment 

Secret Millionaire, a hit British TV reality series that failed when a U.S. version was launched by Fox in 2008 — it folded after six hour-long specials aired in December 2008 — turned out to be a big hit when it landed on ABC on Sunday. The season debut captured 12.7 million viewers, beating the […]

FOOTBALL LOSES YARDAGE, STILL WINS

November 29, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

The audience for NFL football on Sunday was down slightly from previous weeks, but the telecasts still scored the highest ratings of the night. An overrun on Fox at 7:00 p.m. recorded 16.4 million viewers, while NBC’s Sunday Night Football averaged 15.4 million viewers. Despite the solid numbers of the NFL telecasts, CBS produced impressive […]

FOOTBALL SCORES RATINGS VICTORY AGAIN

September 27, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Football once again dominated Sunday-night viewing with a primetime overrun on CBS grabbing 17.04 million viewers in the 7:00 p.m. hour and NBC’s Sunday Night Football accounting for 15.93 million viewers, despite being impacted by ESPN’s coverage of the baseball game between arch rivals the New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox. In an interview with today’s […]