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    Fun And Games Top Week’s Nielsen Ratings

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    American League's Salvador Perez, of the Kansas City Royals, congratulates teammate Eric Hosmer, of the Kansas City Royals, for Hosmer's MVP award in the MLB baseball All-Star Game, Tuesday, July 12, 2016, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

    By Frazier Moore, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    The news was awful again last week, but viewers found some refuge in TV’s fun-and-games.

    In the Nielsen Top 20, no fewer than 11 programs were reality-competition and game shows (including the week’s most-watched series, two editions of “America’s Got Talent”). Add to that baseball’s All-Star Game, the Home Run Derby and “The ESPY Awards,” and clearly viewers were eager for some relief.

    Boosted by “America’s Got Talent,” NBC led the networks overall with a prime-time average of 4.9 million viewers. Runner-up ABC had 4.7 million, while CBS had 4.4 million. Fox, with 3.3 million, got a much-needed shot in the arm with its All-Star Game telecast (which drew 8.71 million viewers).

    Univision had 1.8 million viewers, Telemundo had 1.4 million, ION Television had 1.2 million, and the CW had 980,000 for the week.

    Fox News Channel once again was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.75 million viewers during another busy news week. HGTV had 1.49 million, USA had 1.41 million and ESPN had 1.33 million.

    In the evening news derby, NBC’s “Night News” regained the top spot with an average 7.9 million viewers, top-ranked every night including Friday, when it was the only newscast of the three to be anchored (by Lester Holt) from Nice following the terrorist attack. In second place was ABC’s “World News Tonight” with 7.6 million while the “CBS Evening News” had 6.5 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 11-17. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 11.85 million.

    2. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 11.54 million.

    3. MLB All-Star Game, Fox, 8.71 million.

    4. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 8.17 million.

    5. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 7.77 million.

    6. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 7.22 million.

    7. “The $100,000 Pyramid,” ABC, 7.16 million.

    8. “The Bachelorette,” ABC, 6.87 million.

    9. “American Ninja Warrior,” NBC, 6.34 million.

    10. “Night Shift,” NBC, 6.28 million.

    11. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 6.18 million.

    12. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 6.05 million.

    13. “NCIS,” CBS, 5.91 million.

    14. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 5.85 million.

    15. “Match Game,” ABC, 5.66 million.

    16. “ESPY Awards,” ABC, 5.60 million.

    17. “Home Run Derby,” ESPN, 5.52 million.

    18. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 5.39 million.

    19. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 5.26 million.

    20. “To Tell the Truth,” ABC, 5.15 million.

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    Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.

    The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.

    "This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."

    The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."

    And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.

    Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.

    Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.

    Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."

    It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More

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