Media Decoder Blog: ‘The Voice’ Follows the Super Bowl to Rare Ratings Heights
Propelled by the ratings for the Super Bowl - whose 111.3 million viewers made it the most-watched event in TV history - the NBC singing competition scored a 16.3 rating among the 18- to 49-year-old viewers and attracted 37.6 million viewers.
Media Decoder Blog: Ratings for ‘American Idol’ Take Another Worrisome Dip
The perennial ratings leader on Wednesday was down 34 percent among viewers between the ages of 18 and 49 when compared with last year. Compared with the week before, ratings were down 9 percent.
Media Decoder Blog: Fox News Marks a Decade at No. 1 in Cable News
Its first full year was 1997, when CNN was on top. In five years, Fox News had the most viewers.
Media Decoder Blog: First Ratings for ‘CBS This Morning’ Highlight Steep Challenges Ahead
There were reasons for optimism in the numbers: the new morning broadcast gained viewers as the week progressed. But total viewership was 10 percent lower than what its predecessor pulled in for the same week last year.
Cable News Ratings: Fox’s Monday Night GOP Debate
Fox News continued to ride the wave of successful debate ratings with Monday night's GOP event from South Carolina. Moderated by South Carolina native Bret Baier, the debate -- the first held since the field whittled down to five major candidates -- pulled in 5.5 million total viewers, with 1.6 million coming from the...
Media Decoder Blog: Current TV Finds a Good Number Within Its Tiny Ratings
On the night of the Iowa caucuses, the average viewer of Current TV was 36 years old. Yes, there were only 47,000 of them at any given time that evening -- but they were youthful, which gives executives hope.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Takes Shot At CNN’s Ratings On Live TV
During a panel discussion on Morning Joe Tuesday, Last Word host Lawrence O'Donnell was asked about Newt Gingrich going after Mitt Romney for his Bain Capital connection. O'Donnell suggested he should check the New York Times to see what they were saying. He promptly lifted up the paper, held it up to pretend he was...
Spin Cycle: How The Cable Nets Would Like Us To Report The Year End Ratings
It's time to take another compelling journey into the realm of year-end cable news ratings through the oh-so-rosy lens of the network's publicists. What can you expect? Cleverly-crafted bullet points from the MSNBC, CNN, HLN, and imaginary* Fox News number-crunchers, all doing their best to somehow make Nielsen’s year-end ratings look as if, yes, everybody...
Numbers Don’t Lie? Examining Erin Burnett’s Ratings From Two Points Of View
It's amazing, in the world of ratings, how many different conclusions can be drawn from the same set of numbers. Someone can be winning a nightly battle in "total viewers," but lose in the 25-54 year-old demo. An anchor may be up a certain percentage from a year ago, but be down compared to the...
Friday Ratings: Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree…But Not The TV
Friday nights are, as we've noted before, incredibly weird. But, on the day after a big debate, with people nursing GOP hangovers and the political scene otherwise quiet and essentially shut down for the holidays, its doubly weird. Mix in the fact that the weekend before both Christmas and Hanukkah is likely full of parties,...
Friday Ratings: Bret Baier Surges At 6 p.m.
Friday nights are always a little screwy in the ratings world, with MSNBC trotting out specials at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m., and some hosts opting to cede their spot behind the desk to a guest anchor. On top of all that, it's Friday. People go out, see movies, do stuff that tends...
Thursday Ratings: Piers Bests Most Of His Peers
Piers Morgan -- to editorialize for just a moment -- is one of our favorite cable news hosts. Maybe it's the British accent; perhaps its our affinity for Celebrity Apprentice winners. But he hasn't really, as Brian Stetler of the New York Times noted Thursday, caught on yet in the ratings.
