Megyn Kelly’s new NBC newsmagazine program premiered to modest ratings Sunday night, as it came in third place in total viewership in primetime behind Game 2 of the NBA Finals and a rerun of CBS’s 60 Minutes, though it did top the long-running CBS news show in the key demographic.
Fox News slipped to third place in the primetime demo for the first time in 17 years last week as competitors CNN and MSNBC enjoyed a surge in viewership thanks to a chaotic news week for President Donald Trump’s administration.
A storm over a crude remark Stephen Colbert made about President Donald Trump didn’t hurt the late-night host in the ratings – to the contrary.
Fox News led all of its cable news competitors in the ratings Monday night as Tucker Carlson debuted to strong viewership numbers in his first night in the 8 p.m. time slot formerly commanded by ousted anchor Bill O’Reilly.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is adding an “F-Rating” for films that feature a female director, a female writer, sees “significant women on screen in their own right,” or passes the Bechdel test.
Ratings for the 89th annual Academy Awards slid for a second consecutive year as a slew of wins for much-beloved La La Land, a shock Best Picture win for Moonlight and a game host in Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t move the needle this year.
President Donald Trump continued his war on CNN during a press conference at the White House on Thursday.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s debut as the new boss of NBC’s New Celebrity Apprentice drew soft ratings Monday night without its longtime host and current President-elect Donald Trump.
Megyn Kelly of the Fox News Channel has emerged as that network’s weak link as Fox has fallen behind CNN in the ratings for a full month for the first time since 2001.
The fall television season is in for a rocky start as the five broadcast TV networks have all seen double-digit percentage ratings drops in the key adult demo, according to a report.
Colin Kaepernick confesses that he doesn’t know a lot about how television ratings work. Given that Kaepernick thinks nothing amiss about wearing a Fidel Castro shirt to a press conference, while lamenting oppression and injustice, one could reasonably surmise that Kaepernick doesn’t understand many things.
For the third consecutive week, ratings for the National Football League (NFL) have plummeted, as players continue anti-American protests during the playing of the national anthem. This week’s drop-off also coincided with the Monday broadcast of the first presidential debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.
Monday night’s first presidential debate between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump was the most-watched political debate in history, according to early ratings figures.
Fox News finished in first place for the fifth consecutive week, securing its place as the number one news network on cable, beating out CNN and MSNBC combined in both the number of total viewers and primetime viewers.
The NFL sees its ratings going down faster than Colin Kaepernick after hearing “O say can you see.”
Initial ratings are in for Sunday night’s 68th annual Emmy Awards, and they’re as bleak as most of the winners’ jokes about Donald Trump during the broadcast.
I Am Cait, the reality television series about former gold-medal Olympian Bruce Jenner’s transition into Caitlyn Jenner, will not return for a third season, Jenner revealed on social media Tuesday.
According to Nielsen television ratings, just under 28 million viewers tuned in for Clinton’s speech, while 30 million viewers tuned in for Trump’s speech.
Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention drew more viewers overall than Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, according to final ratings numbers released Friday.
A net total of 14.8 million viewers of Donald Trump’s convention speech are more likely to vote for him, based on a combination of the just-released TV ratings and the viewer poll that CNN tried to bury.
Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart is set to join The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during its live coverage of the Republican National Convention this week in what could be part of a push to boost the CBS late-night program’s disastrous ratings.
Late Show host Stephen Colbert will host his CBS late-night program live from the Republican and Democrat National Conventions in July in what could be an attempt to extricate the program from its long-running ratings slump.
While CBS CEO Les Moonves is not sold on presidential candidate Donald Trump making America great again, he gloated on Monday about how beneficial the GOP frontrunner’s candidacy has been for his company’s bottom line.
The Rev. Al Sharpton took a victory lap Monday after it was announced ratings for the 88th Academy Awards hit an 8-year low.
The ratings for Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” were never all that great to begin with. Nonetheless, the ratings for Colbert’s replacement, Larry Wilmore, are a full 55% lower. While the left-wing Colbert struggles for his own ratings as David Letterman’s
The most recent debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders scared up only 4.5 million viewers on MSNBC. This weekend’s fiery Republican presidential debate in South Carolina pulled in more than three times as many viewers, with 13.5 million viewers.
Likely due to errant play and the defensive slugfest nature of Super Bowl 50, including fumbles and interceptions, the game’s audience failed to surpass the ratings of the last two Super Bowls.
The first debate with only Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (Martin O’Malley suspended his campaign after getting wiped out in Iowa) was a ratings bust. With just a 3.3 rating, Thursday night’s MSNBC debate was not only the lowest of
The football amateurs competed with amateur night. The broadcasting pros at ESPN lost.
The CNN Republican presidential debate on December 15 was the third most-watched primary debate ever and was the highest-rated program of the week, attracting a larger audience than Sunday Night Football.
Jon Stewart picked the right time to Golden Parachute out of the business of licking Obama’s boots while aiming comedic-snark at anyone who dares question The Socialism. According to the most recent numbers, that once-lucrative business is as dead as
Now that Steven Colbert has sunk to a humiliating 4th place in the ratings, permit me a rare told you so. Back when the move was announced, it made no sense to me. Steven Colbert had no audience at Comedy
The left-wing ESPN has lost a whopping 7 million subscribers in just two years. The MSNBC of Sports (hat tip), once available in 99 million homes, is available now in only 92 million homes. That is still a lot of
As Breitbart News has been reporting throughout, CNN’s “New Day” has been in a serious ratings downturn for a number of months now. This month, in October, the left-wing morning show hit a notable low: After 15 months of beating
In its monthly ratings report, leftwing cable news network CNN is juicing its stats to tout a huge increase in its primetime viewership, when the truth is that in the 25-54 demo, when compared to October of last year, per
During what will almost certainly be a change election year, the ratings from CNN’s Tuesday night debate show that the 2016 energy, passion and interest resides primarily on the Republican side. A total of just 15.3 million viewers tuned into
Trevor Noah’s “Daily Show” ratings are much more amusing than Trevor Noah. Jon Stewart never had very good ratings. With fewer than 1% of America very tuning in, because they could use him as a bludgeon against the political right,
Sunday night’s ratings are in, and while football is still king, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump helped CBS to take second place.
All of the GOP-bashing at Sunday night’s Emmys was apparently unable to save the awards show from drawing its smallest number of viewers on record. Fox’s broadcast of the television awards show drew 11.9 million viewers, down a whopping four million
As the first season of E! network’s I Am Cait reality television show came to an end last weekend, many in the transgender community have blasted both the show and its star, Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner, for failing to represent the struggles that ordinary trans people face on a daily basis.