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    “America’s Got Talent” Tops Nielsens For NBC; Fox News Wins With GOP Convention Coverage

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    In this image released by NBC, Sofie Dossi performs on an episode of the talent competition series, "America's Got Talent." Boosted by “America’s Got Talent,” NBC led the networks overall with a prime-time average of 4.9 million viewers. (Trae Patton/NBC via AP)

    By Frazier Moore, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Viewers chose cable news over broadcast TV for coverage of the Republican National Convention last week, with the Nielsen Top 20 claiming eight cable programs focused on the GOP confab.

    Among the cable news networks, it was Fox News Channel’s week in particular to shine even as it reeled from the ouster of its founding father, Roger Ailes, accused of sexual harassment.

    Besides its flurry of high-ranking individual programs, Fox News ranked No. 1 by far in prime-time among cable networks, averaging 4.1 million viewers. And it was second among all networks, cable or broadcast, behind only by NBC.

    Meanwhile, CNN, the week’s second-most-watched cable network, drew an average of 2.4 million viewers with its GOP coverage.

    Among the networks overall, NBC led with a prime-time average of 5.1 million viewers, for what NBC says is its longest winning streak, excluding Olympics coverage, in 14 years. Last week’s top two shows were editions of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.”

    But Fox News took the third and fourth slots with its coverage of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s acceptance speech. For the week, Fox News’ 4.1 million average was followed by CBS with 4.0 million. ABC had 3.8 million and CNN had 2.4 million, with the Fox Broadcasting network right behind 2.2 million.

    Univision had 1.7 million viewers, Telemundo had 1.5 million, followed by MSNBC — the third member of the cable-news trio — with 1.4 million. After that, ION Television had 1.2 million, and the CW had 890,000 viewers.

    In the evening news derby, NBC’s “Nightly News” held the top spot in a squeaker with 7.56 million viewers, followed by ABC’s “World News Tonight” with 7.50 million. The “CBS Evening News” had 6.09 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for July 18-24. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 11.10 million.

    2. “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 10.78 million.

    3. GOP Convention Coverage (10 p.m. Thursday), Fox News Channel, 9.72 million.

    4. GOP Convention Coverage (11 p.m. Thursday), Fox News Channel, 9.10 million.

    5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.87 million.

    6. “Celebrity Family Feud,” ABC, 7.68 million.

    7. GOP Convention Coverage (Wednesday, 10 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 7.34 million.

    8. “The Bachelorette,” ABC, 6.76 million.

    9. “The $100,000 Pyramid,” ABC, 6.72 million.

    10. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 6.64 million.

    11. “Hannity” (Thursday), Fox News Channel, 6.61 million.

    12. “The Kelly File” (Thursday), Fox News Channel, 6.55 million.

    13. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.37 million.

    14. GOP Convention Coverage (Monday, 10 p.m.), Fox News Channel, 6.348 million.

    15. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 6.347 million.

    16. “American Ninja Warrior,” NBC, 6.00 million.

    17. GOP Convention Coverage (Thursday, 10 p.m.), CNN, 5.80 million.

    18. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 5.70 million.

    19. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 5.61 million.

    20. “The Kelly File” (Wednesday), Fox News Channel, 5.57 million.

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    Trump Names Brendan Carr To Lead The FCC

    Monday, November 18, 2024

    President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.

    Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC's general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission.

    The FCC is an independent agency that is overseen by Congress, but Trump has suggested he wanted to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to use the agency to punish TV networks that cover him in a way he doesn't like.

    Carr has of late embraced Trump's ideas about social media and tech. Carr wrote a section devoted to the FCC in " Project 2025," a sweeping blueprint for gutting the federal workforce and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

    Trump has claimed he doesn't know anything about Project 2025, but many of its themes have aligned with his statements.

    Carr said in a statement congratulating Trump on his win that he believed "the FCC will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth."

    "Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans' Freedoms, and held back our Economy," Trump said in a statement on Sunday. "He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America's Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America."

    The five-person commission has a 3-2 Democratic... Read More

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