Ratings for Television Programs
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 contained a "Parental Choice in Television Programming" provision designed to permit parents greater control over the c...
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Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 11-17. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.1. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA,...
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Sometimes a radical change to the formula still delivers the same result. That's what happened Tuesday when Nielsen Media Research released highly anticipated commercial ratings for the first week ...
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It must have felt like the good ol' days at NBC: the three most-watched prime-time programs and "Nightly News" back on top of the ratings. Too bad it's the middle of summer, when few people are pay...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - CNBC's top executive shrugged
off concerns that Rupert Murdoch's new business news channel
would snatch away many viewers, though early ratings indicated
CNBC's chokehold on t...
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Numbingly low Nielsen ratings for last week made it clear why NBC this week hired a new team to oversee its prime-time entertainment department.The once-proud Peacock network averaged only 5.6 mill...
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The NBA's new television contracts with ESPN/ABC and TNT include rights to technologies that have yet to be invented, an indication of the importance the deals place on newer forms of media.The eig...
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Despite its name, Current TV has been curiously both ahead and behind the times.When Current TV launched in August 2005, the network pioneered the concept of viewer-created content. Approximately a...
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Entrepreneurs looking to launch an innovative start-up -- and sell it for big bucks -- could learn lessons from Norman Lear, creator of a string of TV hits in the 1970s. Among the lessons?Knock on ...
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Ratings for Television Programs
Wrestling tops cable Nielsen ratings
