NFL Preemptions Throw Off Thursday Numbers
NFL preemptions across much of the country means the current fast national numbers for Thursday are not accurate and will be subject to significant revision later today. As it stands, Big Brother on CBS is at a 1.8 rating in adults 18-49 and 6.9 million viewers, making it the top show of the night.
Tribune Media’s NBC affiliate WHO Des Moines, Iowa (DMA 68), is packing up and moving out Monday morning for RVTV 2018, the station’s annual week-long Iowa/Iowa State tailgate party. The […]
WOAI Names Irene Cruz 10 P.M. Anchor
The new Thursday night tie-up between the National Football League and Fox will apparently lead to some more football-themed programming on the network on Sundays. Fox will this season offer NFL GameDay Prime Sundays at 11:30 p.m. to its affiliates, according to two people familiar with the situation. In an unusual twist, the NFL will sell the national advertising surrounding the program.
Brian Rolapp, the NFL’s chief business and media officer, called the runup to 2022 an “inflection point” for the league’s lucrative TV rights, with the current broadcast deals expiring and tech giants likely to flex their financial might. Even so, he said the NFL is taking a wait-and-see approach to dealmaking with Silicon Valley, primarily because of streaming capacity concerns.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new study says that the TV industry’s hiring of first-time female directors and directors of color hit record highs for the second year in a […]
Exclusives
Big Brotherand America’s Got Talent tied each other in the key demo in the Wednesday overnight ratings. Both shows drew a 1.5 rating in adults 18-49, though AGT was ahead in total viewers on NBC with 9.8 million. Big Brother drew 5.7 million viewers for CBS. Both shows were approximately even with their performance last Wednesday as well.
Sony Pictures TV on Wednesday laid off a number of employees at its programming, home entertainment, and worldwide distribution divisions as part of its on-going consolidation at the company. The exact number of job cuts is unknown, but an insider confirmed that several people were let go. Sony declined to comment.
Long gone are the days when consumers had only one option to view their favorite TV show. Today, the content options are seemingly infinite, and so are the places they can tune in. Whether it’s watching at a friend’s house, in a waiting room at a doctor’s office or at the workplace, consumers are taking their viewing habits out-of-home (OOH) and wherever the road takes them. There’s no dispute that news and sports are the leading beneficiaries of OOH viewership. But an in-depth, year-to-date analysis of OOH TV viewing data from the Nielsen Total Audience framework highlights that many other genres benefit.
Country music news and entertainment show Nashville Insider launches into season three adding 51 stations to its existing affiliate list. “We are proud to announce that starting the week of […]
Syndication’s Fall Docket On The Light Side
The new entries include Face the Truth with Vivica A. Fox and Caught in Providence with real-life judge Frank Caprio. However, looking out a year, there are signs of more shows, some with big budgets, coming in 2019.
America’s Got Talent was down slightly week-to-week in the Tuesday overnight ratings but still handily won the night for NBC. AGT drew a 1.9 rating in adults 18-49 and 10.6 million viewers. That is down a little over 10% in the demo compared to last week’s Tuesday episode and around 5% in total viewers. Afterwards at 10 p.m., Making It drew a 0.8 rating and just under 4 million viewers, notching a similar drop in the demo that AGT saw.
Both premium cable networks HBO and Cinemax have phased out content including Taxicab Confessions, Real Sex and Cathouse as well as other adult movies containing explicit content from its linear and on-demand platforms.The programming change has been in the works for the past year as the two look for other latenight programming.
WASHINGTON (AP) — NBC Sports and the Premier League on Tuesday announced a series of live fan events around the United States beginning in late September in the nation’s capital. […]
League schools are working on production and broadcast space for the ACC Network’s launch in August 2019 . The conference is mulling football and basketball scheduling that adds extra zip to first-year programming for the ESPN-partnered channel.
Bad Week For Trump = Good Week For Maddow
MSNBC’s marquee personality took advantage of a busy week of bad news for the president, led by former lawyer Michael Cohen’s plea deal and former campaign manager Paul Manafort’s conviction on corruption charges. In broadcast, NBC won the week in primetime with an average of 4.9 million viewers. CBS had 4 million viewers, ABC had 3.6 million, Fox had 2.6 million, Ion Television had 1.4 million, Univision and Telemundo were tied with 1.21 million and the CW had 770,000.
‘Bachelor’ Wins Mon.; ‘Ninja’ Ticks Up
ABC’s Bachelor in Paradise maintained its standing as the top show among adults 18-49 Monday night, but not by much. Ninja Warrior, meanwhile, had its biggest total audience of the season with 5.81 million people tuning in to the NBC series.
The Atlanta-based production company is a provider of urban content production and programming, delivering more than 60 original productions in the last six years.
Magazine Shows Give — And Get — Some Respect
Coverage of the life and career of Aretha Franklin rescued most of the entertainment magazines from sluggish syndicated ratings in the week ending Aug. 19.
The Cubs will pull away from their partnership with NBC Sports Chicago — as well as the White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks — and start their own television venture in October 2019, according to industry sources. The Cubs have hired Mike McCarthy to lead the television venture moving forward, sources said. McCarthy was previously the president of the MSG Network and the CEO of the St. Louis Blues.
