By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --Everything old is new again — at least for ABC's audience.
The network's special, star-filled live presentations of old episodes of "The Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes" reached some 4.8 million viewers last week, the Nielsen company said.
That wasn't earth-shattering, and didn't even crack Nielsen's list of top 30 programs. But it was the network's most-watched program. With stars like Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Hart, John Lithgow, Jon Stewart and Snoop Dogg, the annual exercise hosted by Jimmy Kimmel got some good word-of-mouth.
Otherwise, it was a fairly typical week in television, with football dominating and CBS' "60 Minutes" the top non-sports broadcast.
CBS eked out a weekly win, averaging 5.94 million viewers in primetime to NBC's 5.89 million. Fox averaged 4.5 million, ABC had 2.8 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Telemundo had 1 million and Ion Television had 880,000.
ESPN was the top cable network in primetime, averaging 2.49 million viewers. Fox News Channel had 2.3 million, Hallmark had 1.57 million, MSNBC had 1.12 million and Paramount had 894,000.
ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news ratings race, averaging 8 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.4 million viewers and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.2 million.
For the week of Dec. 6-12, the top 20 primetime telecasts, their networks and viewers:
1. NFL Football: Chicago at Green Bay, NBC, 18.56 million.
2. NFL Football: Pittsburgh at Minnesota, Fox, 14.04 million.
3. NFL Football: New England at Buffalo, ESPN, 13.28 million.
4. "NFL Pregame," NBC, 12.48 million.
5. "NFL Postgame," Fox, 10.93 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.32 million.
7. "NFL Pregame," Fox, 8.78 million.
8. "Yellowstone," Paramount, 7.54 million.
9. "Football Night in America, Part 3," NBC, 7.35 million.
10. "NCIS," CBS, 7.25 million.
11. "FBI," CBS, 7.03 million.
12. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 6.96 million.
13. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.89 million.
14. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 6.79 million.
15. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 6.77 million.
16. "NFL Pregame," ESPN, 6.72 million.
17. "Chicago Med," NBC, 6.59 million.
18. "FBI: International," CBS, 5.79 million.
19. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.76 million.
20. "Ghosts," CBS, 5.75 million.
SMPTE elects board officers, regional governors
SMPTE®,the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has revealed the board officers and regional governors who will serve terms beginning in January 2025.
Three new officers--Richard Welsh as SMPTE president, Eric Gsell as SMPTE executive VP, and Polly Hickling as SMPTE Education VP--have been elected for a two-year term from Jan. 1, 2025, to Dec. 31, 2026. One SMPTE officer, Lisa Hobbs, will be continuing her service as SMPTE secretary and treasurer for another two-year term. Additionally, Raymond Yeung will be stepping into the role of standards VP on Jan. 1, 2025.
“SMPTE’s membership has spoken,” said SMPTE interim executive director Sally-Ann D’Amato. “These officers have been tasked with an important responsibility, one each of them is prepared to tackle head-on. These next two years are looking bright for SMPTE!”
In addition to the officers, 10 regional governors were elected by the Society to serve two-year 2025-2026 terms.
These include the following regional governors, re-elected to continue their service:
Asia-Pacific Region Governor
Tony Ngai, Society of Motion Imaging Ltd.
EMEA - Central & South America Region Governor
Fernando Bittencourt, FB Consultant
United Kingdom Region Governor
Chris Johns, Sky UK.
USA - Central Region Governor
William T. Hayes, Consultant
USA - Eastern Region Governor
Dover Jeanne Mundt, Riedel Communications
USA - Western Region Governor
Jeffrey F. Way, Open Drives
Also elected were four newcomers to the SMPTE Board:
Canada Region Governor
Jonathan Jobin, Grass Valley
USA - Hollywood Region Governor
Allan Schollnick, Voxx... Read More