CBS touts its strength in the metric most associated with streamers, so The Hollywood Reporter decided to check the network’s claims.
CBS is touting its viewership for the 2021-22 broadcast season, claiming that its viewers have consumed more that 166 million minutes of CBS programming, more than any other broadcast network. Of the aggregated number, primetime viewing accounts for over 59 billion minutes, CBS says.
Medical drama Good Sam and a new season of Celebrity Big Brother will join a largely stable schedule.
NBC’s The Voice this Tuesday drew 6.7 million total viewers and a 0.8 demo rating, up sharply from last week’s clip show and leading the night in the demo. Over on CBS, FBI (7M/0.7) drew the night’s largest audience and was up in the demo.
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Television became a lifeline for American households during the pandemic, but a new report from Mohu suggests the financial investment in TV services has hit a tipping point.
Tegna Inc. today announced a multi-year partnership with Law&Crime Productions, a production company founded by Dan Abrams, and Cineflix Rights, the UK’s largest independent TV content distributor, to co-produce original docuseries leveraging Tegna stations’ library […]
Kids and family programming deals are surging as streaming companies look to double down on content that serves a highly-engaged cohort of younger users. Children’s content used to be perceived as a tool to stop users from canceling streaming accounts. Now it’s a key driver for new user growth.
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS, which has the U.S.-English language rights to the Americans’ World Cup qualifier at Jamaica next week, said Tuesday it will make the Nov. 16 match […]
Fox’s ‘The Five’ Scores Rare Win For Daytime; NFL Takes Top
Behind a Thursday night NFL game and the Atlanta Braves’ World Series-clinching win, the Fox broadcast network won the week in primetime. Fox averaged 6.9 million viewers, with NBC at 5.2 million, CBS at 4.9 million, ABC at 2.8 million, Univision at 1.3 million, Ion Television at 890,000 and Telemundo at 820,000. On cable in October, Fox’s The Five eclipsed every show on cable news in popularity for the first time ever, Nielsen said. That’s highly unusual for a program that airs at 5 p.m. Eastern and in the midafternoon on the West Coast.
Nielsen has begun internal tests of its new multimedia audience measurement methodology, Nielsen One, and will begin testing it with clients next year, the company’s top management executives said during a briefing with a Wall Street securities firm. “Most of the methodology is built from Big Data sources like [connected TV] makers and Roku, but Nielsen’s panel remains vital to calibrating the data for fraudulent accounts, non-viewed content (e.g., streaming or set-top box showing video, but TV is off) and better accounting for underrepresented audiences,” BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon disclosed in a report sent to investors.
Music video network Vevo and Local Now, Allen Media Group’s free streaming service, today announced their partnership and the subsequent launch of 10 Vevo channels on Local Now. Programmed by […]
‘Ellen’ Continues Its Winning Ways
It’s the only top talker to post gains in the session ending Oct. 31 and has grown 150% over the past 13 weeks in this its final season.
NBC’s The Voice, Fox’s 9-1-1 and ABC’s Dancing With the Stars tied for the Monday demo win, while CBS’s NCIS commanded the night’s largest audience.
The multiyear deal extends relationship across 47 markets.
Former Quantum Leap star Dean Stockwell, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actor whose career on stage, in film and TV spanned more than 70 years, died in the early morning of Nov. 7 at home of natural causes, a rep for the family confirmed. He was 85.
Ingo Rademacher also shared an anti-transgender meme on social media Sunday, prompting backlash from some castmates.
New series The Cleaning Lady, Pivoting and Monarch are also set for early 2022 premieres at the broadcaster.
TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with Lyle Schulze, VP and GM of Gray’s WIS Columbia, S.C., about how the station is taking back its programming inventory amid a dearth of syndication options, along with how the “Great Resignation” is playing out at the station level.
The first group of public broadcasting stations to appear on DirecTV stream are being launched early this week by the virtual multichannel video programming distributor. DirecTV Stream and PBS reached a deal to stream PBS member stations in October.
When The CW was announced in January 2006, the idea was to take the two smallest broadcast networks (UPN and The WB) and combine them into one less-small network with the backing of two media titans, UPN owner CBS and WB namesake Warner Bros. Entertainment.Fifteen years and several sea changes in the television landscape later, The CW is still a broadcast network, though its stewards would prefer it to be called a “multiplatform network.”
NBC’s Sunday Night Football coverage averaged 11.3 million total viewers and a 3.2 demo rating, down a bit from last week’s preliminary numbers but easily leading the night in both measures. Buoyed by a football lead-in, The Simpsons (3.4M/1.1) on Fox led Sunday’s non-sports fare in the demo, while a steady 60 Minutes (7.3M/0.6) on CBS drew Sunday’s biggest non-sports audience
The eight ABC Owned Television Stations lead the renewal through the 2023-24 syndication season.
