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    Colbert Trumps Fallon In Ratings; A Look At Last Week’s Nielsens

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    In this Aug. 10, 2015 file photo, Stephen Colbert participates in the "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" segment of the CBS Summer TCA Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    He may cringe at the thought, but is Stephen Colbert the late-night man for the Trump administration?

    Colbert’s “Late Show” won the late-night ratings competition last week over NBC’s Jimmy Fallon for the first time since Colbert replaced David Letterman in September 2015, the Nielsen company said.

    The margin was so small – 2.77 million average for CBS, 2.76 million for NBC – that CBS didn’t want to jinx its good fortune by making an executive available to talk about it on Tuesday. But it reflects a turnaround for the troubled show since former “CBS This Morning” executive Chris Licht was put in charge backstage and steered the show toward more topical content to match the times.

    The “Late Show” won two of the five nights on which Colbert and Fallon went head-to-head last week, but it was enough to win the week. One night was Tuesday, when Colbert’s former Comedy Central pal Jon Stewart came by to offer an impersonation of President Trump.

    The other win was Monday, Colbert’s first night back from a week’s vacation and his first show, he noted, in the Trump era. His monologue that night recorded 4 million views on YouTube, CBS said.

    “You’ve got to give the guy credit,” Colbert said of the new president. “He gets a lot of stuff undone.”

    It may be Colbert’s first weekly win in over a year, but he’s been creeping closer in the ratings since the election. Fallon still wins among youthful demographics, Nielsen said.

    Another late-night story may temper NBC’s disappointment. “Saturday Night Live” is booming, with its most-watched season in 22 years, and Melissa McCarthy’s impersonation of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer last weekend became an instant classic. Only three prime-time shows last week got better ratings among the 18-to-49-year-old age group than “Saturday Night Live.”

    Meanwhile, President Trump lost a ratings competition to his predecessor. Trump’s interview with Bill O’Reilly on the Super Bowl preview show was seen by 12.2 million people on Sunday, compared to the 14.9 million who watched CBS’ Gayle King interview former President Obama on last year’s show. In fairness to Trump, Fox aired the interview 25 minutes earlier in the pregame show than CBS, which showed it closer to kickoff.

    The Super Bowl gave Fox the easy win in prime time. The network averaged 29.7 million viewers in prime time, followed by CBS with 6 million, ABC with 4 million, NBC with 3.7 million, Univision with 1.8 million, the CW with 1.6 million, Telemundo with 1.4 million and ION Television with 1.2 million.

    Fox News Channel dominated the cable networks, averaging 3.15 million viewers in prime time. HGTV had 1.58 million, USA had 1.55 million, MSNBC had 1.42 million and TBS had 1.34 million.

    NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 9.1 million viewers. ABC’s “World News Tonight” was second with 9 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 7.3 million viewers.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Jan. 30-Feb. 5. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. Super Bowl: New England vs. Atlanta, Fox, 111.32 million viewers.

    2. “Super Bowl Post Game,” Fox, 61.08 million.

    3. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 14.66 million.

    4. “Superior Donuts,” CBS, 10.54 million.

    5. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 10.13 million.

    6. “Hawaii Five-O,” CBS, 9.81 million.

    7. “Mom,” CBS, 8.71 million.

    8. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 8.5 million.

    9. “The Big Bang Theory” (Monday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 8.44 million.

    10. “Criminal Minds,” CBS, 7.46 million.

    11. “MacGyver,” CBS, 7.43 million.

    12. “The Bachelor,” ABC, 7.25 million.

    13. “Code Black,” CBS, 6.8 million.

    14. “The O’Reilly Factor” (Tuesday), Fox News, 6.76 million.

    15. “Life in Pieces,” CBS, 6.63 million.

    16. “Last Man Standing,” ABC, 6.6 million.

    17. “Scandal,” ABC, 6.55 million.

    18. “Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials,” CBS, 6.47 million.

    19. “Kevin Can Wait,” CBS, 6.39 million.

    20. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.3 million.

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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