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    CBS Tops Nielsens Behind “60 Minutes”; ESPN Scores With Monday NFL Game

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    Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson (3) greets San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman after an NFL football game in Santa Clara, Calif., Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. The Seahawks won 27-24 in overtime. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    CBS won the television ratings crown last week despite being without the most valuable ratings commodity in this era, a primetime football game.

    Two relatively lackluster games on NBC and Fox last week enabled CBS’ strong entertainment schedule to rule the week, the Nielsen company said. The long-running “60 Minutes” newsmagazine was CBS’ top-rated program.

    The week’s best primetime football game was the “Monday Night Football” matchup between Seattle and San Francisco on ESPN, making it the rare week where a program on cable was the most-watched television show.

    CBS averaged 5.2 million viewers last week. NBC had 4.7 million viewers, ABC had 4.3 million, Fox had 3.5 million, Univision had 1.1 million, ION Television had 1 million, Telemundo had 850,000 and the CW had 610,000.

    ESPN was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 3.17 million viewers in primetime. In a strong news week, Fox News Channel averaged 2.75 million viewers and MSNBC had 1.96 million. Hallmark had 1.65 million viewers and HGTV had 1.04 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 9.1 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” was second with 8.4 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6 million viewers.

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

    1. NFL Football: Seattle at San Francisco, ESPN, 16.95 million.
    2. NFL Football: Chicago at L.A. Rams, NBC, 16.85 million.
    3. NFL Football: Pittsburgh at Cleveland, Fox, 15.66 million.
    4. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 13.2 million.
    5. “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 12.2 million.
    6. “NCIS,” CBS, 11.66 million.
    7. “CMA Awards,” ABC, 11.28 million.
    8. “NFL Pregame Show,” Fox, 9.64 million.
    9. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 9.47 million.
    10. “Young Sheldon, CBS, 9.06 million.
    11. “FBI,” CBS, 8.88 million.
    12. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 8.51 million.
    13. “NFL Pregame Show,” ESPN, 8.06 million.
    14. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 7.6 million.
    15. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 7.51 million.
    16. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.44 million.
    17. “Hawaii Five-O,’ CBS, 7.36 million.
    18. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.18 million.
    19. “God Friended Me,” CBS, 7.15 million.
    20. “This is Us,” NBC, 7.12 million.

    ABC and ESPN are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; Fox is owned by Fox Corp.; NBC is owned by NBC Universal.

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    Growth Brings Growing Pains–and Bots–To Bluesky

    Sunday, December 22, 2024

    Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk's X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner's support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta's Threads and its algorithms.

    The platform grew out of the company then known as Twitter, championed by its former CEO Jack Dorsey. Its decentralized approach to social networking was eventually intended to replace Twitter's core mechanic. That's unlikely now that the two companies have parted ways. But Bluesky's growth trajectory — with a user base that has more than doubled since October — could make it a serious competitor to other social platforms.

    But with growth comes growing pains. It's not just human users who've been flocking to Bluesky but also bots, including those designed to create partisan division or direct users to junk websites.

    The skyrocketing user base — now surpassing 25 million — is the biggest test yet for a relatively young platform that has branded itself as a social media alternative free of the problems plaguing its competitors. According to research firm Similarweb, Bluesky added 7.6 million monthly active app users on iOS and Android in November, an increase of 295.4% since October. It also saw 56.2 million desktop and mobile web visits, in the same period, up 189% from October.

    Besides the U.S. elections, Bluesky also got a boost when X was briefly banned in Brazil.

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