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“NIGHTLINE” BEATS “LETTERMAN” FOR THE 3rd QUARTER AMONG TOTAL VIEWERS AND A25-54 DEMO

From an ABC press release: FIRST TIME IN 9 YEARS “NIGHTLINE” OUTPERFORMS CBS AMONG DEMO FOR 3rd QUARTER “NIGHTLINE” BEATS “LETTERMAN” AMONG TOTAL VIEWERS AND A25-54 FOR WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15-FOURTH WEEK IN A ROW FOR THE...

Texting More Popular than Voice Calls in the USA

The Nielsen Company says that the typical U.S. mobile subscriber now sends and receives more SMS text messages than they do mobile telephone calls. Number of Monthly Calls vs. Text Messages As of Q2 2008, a typical U.S....

Final 2007-8 Season To Date Broadcast Shows, Adults 18-49

American Idol Finishes With Top 2 Spots For Adults 18-49 The 2007-8 broadcast season officially ended on Sunday, September 21 and Fox’s American Idol took top 2 spots for demo adults 18-49 for the annual season, followed...

Nielsen Examines TV Viewers to the Political Conventions, September 2008

An interesting report was released by Nielsen analyzing some of the viewership trends for the Republican and Democratic conventions. Here are a few highlights: • Nearly two thirds of all U.S. households (64.5% or 73.2...

ABC is Daytime’s No. 1 Network in Women 18-49, Surpassing No. 2 CBS by 8% and No. 3 NBC by 22%

From an ABC press release: In Women 18-34, with All Programs Positioning Among the Top 3, ABC Dominates the Competition in Daytime by Double-Digit Percentages, Overshadowing NBC by 43% and CBS by 67% For the Third Week...

“MEET THE PRESS” IS THE #1 SUNDAY MORNING PUBLIC AFFAIRS PROGRAM FOR THE 2007-2008 TELEVISION SEASON

From an NBC press release: BROADCAST WINS THE WEEK ENDING SUNDAY, SEPT. 21 2008 AND CONTINUES TO DOMINATE BOTH NATIONALLY AND IN WASHINGTON, D.C. (New York) – September 25, 2008 – According to Nielsen Media Research data,...

Tuesday, Sept. 24: Second Night Wins To CBS, ABC and Fox

The second night of the new television year spread around the good news again. CBS had the largest average audience with 14.884 million viewers (just ahead of ABC with 14.341 million). ABC had the most viewed show of the...

DIRECTV Delivers Local HD Programming to Customers in the Burlington Vt.-Plattsburgh N.Y. DMA

BUSINESS WIRE — DIRECTV, Inc. -0- *T WHAT: DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading satellite television service provider, is now offering local HD programming to customers in the Burlington Vt.-Plattsburgh N.Y. designated...

Wheel of Fortune Leads Syndicated Shows with 9 Million

Syndicated TV Show Ratings for the Week of September 1-7, 2008 RANK PROGRAMS ORIG Persons Live+SD (000) 1 WHEEL OF FORTUNE CTD 8,965 2 JEOPARDY CTD 7,218 3 TWO-HALF MEN WB 6,938 4 FAMILY GUY-MF 2/T 6,047 4 JUDGE JUDY CTD...

Video Viewing at BarackObama.com Grows 155 Percent in August; JohnMcCain.com Attracts a Majority...

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwire) — 09/24/08 — Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, today announced that the number of video streams at BarackObama.com increased 155 percent in August, from 502,000 in July to 1.3...