By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --In an otherwise quiet week for television, President Joe Biden was the biggest star.
An estimated 38.2 million people watched him deliver his first State of the Union speech last week, spread across several networks that carried it. Fox News Channel, where 7.2 million people watched, had the biggest single audience, the Nielsen company said.
Otherwise, no primetime program exceeded 8 million live viewers. On a typical night, ABC's "World News Tonight" with David Muir had a bigger audience than anything else on TV last week.
Among individual primetime shows, "60 Minutes" finished on top for the second week in a row, Nielsen said.
CBS won the week in primetime with an average of 4.6 million viewers. ABC had 3.9 million, NBC had 3.2 million, Fox had 1.9 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 930,000.
Fox News Channel led the cable networks in primetime with an average of 3.51 million viewers. CNN had 1.81 million, MSNBC had 1.64 million, ESPN had 1.29 million and HGTV had 1.1 million.
ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.8 million viewers, NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.3 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.1 million.
For the week of Feb. 28-March 6, the 20 most-watched programs in primetime, their networks and viewerships:
1. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.99 million.
2. "State of the Union," Fox News, 7.21 million.
3. "The Equalizer," CBS, 7.13 million.
4. "NCIS," CBS, 7.12 million.
5. "Chicago Med," NBC, 7.05 million.
6. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 6.89 million.
7. "State of the Union Preview," Fox News, 6.62 million.
8. "American Idol," ABC, 6.57 million.
9. "State of the Union Analysis" (10:10-10:32 p.m. Eastern), Fox News, 6.55 million.
10. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 6.48 million.
11. "State of the Union," ABC, 6.3 million.
12. "State of the Union: Republican Response," Fox News, 5.98 million.
13. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 5.91 million.
14. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.9 million.
15. "Chicago PD," NBC, 5.81 million.
16. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 5.7 million.
17. "Ghosts," CBS, 5.52 million.
18. "Bob Hearts Abishola," CBS, 5.5 million.
19. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 5.45 million.
20. "State of the Union Analysis" (10:46-11 p.m. Eastern), Fox News, 5.44 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