Programming

It sets the pace in the entertainment magazine genre with a 4% rise to a new season-high 2.8.

Fox’s 911 topped Monday’s adults 18-49 ratings, improving some week to week. The Voice was once again the top show in total viewers.

The annual Halloween episode (and an NFL lead-in) gives the Fox series Sunday’s best non-football numbers in adults 18-49.

Thanks to strong performances from Thursday Night Football and The Masked Singer, Fox continues to lead broadcast networks in primetime 18-49 viewers in the new TV season — a rare uptick for a TV network versus the previous year. After three weeks of the new season, Fox is at a Nielsen 1.9 rating/9 share, up 6% from a year ago through October 13. That’s a combination of Nielsen-measured live-program plus seven days of time-shifted viewing and for the most recent period, live program-plus-same day time-shifted viewing. NBC is next at a 1.7/8, down 20% from a year ago.

Disney-owned ABC’s year-old local news video property Localish is inverting the model of TV networks cutting short clips from their linear shows to distribute online. Instead, Localish is taking the short videos it has produced primarily for Facebook and packaging them into TV-length episodes to air on ABC’s local TV stations and elsewhere.