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Early ratings for cable network coverage of Tuesday’s presidential debate have numbers surging ahead of the first showdown between President Obama andMitt Romney earlier this month — and Fox News Channel is reaping the biggest benefits. Nielsen figures have FNC’s telecast of the town hall debate matching its highest ratings ever (Sarah Palin and Joe Biden‘s 2008 vice presidential debate) with 11.1 million viewers. On par with that record, FNC also scored a demo win with [...] American are fast turning to mobile devices to get their news, resulting in stunning viewership declines for CNN and existence-threatening readership drops for newspapers, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. The winners: social network sites, online news and websites like the Drudge Report and Yahoo. In Pew’s latest look at trends in news consumption, Americans said that they have turned away from CNN. In just four years, the percentage of [...] UPDATE, 1:41 PM: It’s a Silver for London. The 2012 London Olympics are now the second most watched event in American TV history. The London Games have had a total audience of 210.5 million over the first 14 days. That audience across NBCUniversal’s networks of NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo and Bravo beats the 1996 Atlanta Olympics’ 209 million viewership but is still behind the 215 million who saw the 2008 [...] Despite NBC promising more than 3,500 hours of live video from the London 2012 Olympics, American viewers will still not be able to (legally) watch the opening ceremonies live, even online.
And despite a lame excuse from NBC, the real reason is that they are making a ratings grab. Instead of being shown live on one of NBC’s six networks, two specialty channels, one 3-D channel or streamed online, the opening ceremonies will be [...] NEW YORK (AP) – A new study has found that YouTube is emerging as a major platform for news, one to which viewers increasingly turn for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released their examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the Google Inc.-owned site. It found that while viewership for TV [...] Washington Examiner
The viewer plunge at CNN, which just recorded its lowest ratings in 20 years, is presenting a “challenge” to the Cable News Network to fight back against scrappier and more provocative cable networks, according to network anchor John King. In a revealing moment at the annual Cable Show, this year in Boston, C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, hosting a media panel, asked King: “Who’s your audience John King, who’s watching CNN?” King, [...] With another GOP debate set for tomorrow night on CNN, we have the ratings for Monday night’s face-off on Fox News. And as the candidates drop out, the viewership is dropping off. Monday’s debate drew 5.48 million viewers, under-performing FNC’s two previous GOP debates in December and September. Still, from 9-11pmET FNC more than quadrupled thecombined Total Viewership of MSNBC and CNN. ABC’s Dec. 10 outing is still the #1 debate [...] Adults 18-49: Rating/Share Total Viewers (million)
*Due to the nature of live programming the ratings for CBS (NFL playoff game) and FOX (NFL playoff game overrun) are approximate and subject to more than the typical adjustments in the final numbers. See below for more information on these Fast Affiliate Ratings. Of course CBS won the night, but with the Patriots winning in a blowout the ratings weren’t nearly as Tebowlicious as they could’ve [...] Wednesday cable ratings (all Live+Same Day ratings): Show MLB WED NIGHT – EARLY L REAL WORLD XXVI The Ultimate Fighter MLB WED NIGHT – EARLY L SPORTSCENTER LATE L Mythbusters Ghost Hunters BASEBALL POST GAME L Dance Moms RESTAURANT IMPOSSIBLE EXTREME COUPONING PARANORMAL WITNESS Operation Repo SPORTSCENTER EARLY L HOUSE OF PAYNE Daily Show Blue Mountain State HOUSE OF PAYNE CONAN EXTREME COUPONING Top Chef Just [...] By BILL CARTER NYT Paul Drinkwater/NBCJay Leno, above with Jamie Foxx, and his longtime late night competitor, David Letterman, both saw their ratings, especially among younger viewers, drop sharply. The decline of television’s two big late-night stars was more noticeable than ever during television’s premiere week, as “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and the “Late Show With David Letterman” were both beaten by ABC’s “Nightline” — [...] NEW YORK (AP) – Jim Lehrer has been delivering the news each weeknight to PBS viewers since the Gerald Ford administration. Now he says it’s time to step away. He announced Thursday that he’s leaving the “NewsHour” as a regular anchor effective the week of June 6, the final step in a carefully planned retirement that included the introduction of a rotating anchor team in December [...] UPDATE SATURDAY 7 PM PM: Almost 23 million viewers in the U.S. watched the coverage of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton from 6AM? 7:15AM ET on Friday across 11 networks. That outpaces the estimated 17 million who tuned in for Prince Charles and Diana’s wedding in 1981, which was carried by the Big 3 broadcast networks, before the proliferation [...] Number of advertisers now boycotting show closing in on 400… NYT: GLENN BECK MAY BOLT FOXNEWS; START HIS OWN CHANNEL The possibility that Glenn Beck will exit the Fox News Channel at the end of the year has prompted a big question in media circles: if he leaves, how will he bring his considerable audience with him? Two of the options Mr. Beck has contemplated, according to people who [...] |
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