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    “Dancing” To A Catchy Nielsen Tune; A Review Of Last Week’s Ratings

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    In this April 11, 2016 image released by ABC, dancer Valentin Chmerkovskiy, left, and Ginger Zee compete on the celebrity dance competition series, "Dancing with the Stars," in Los Angeles. (Adam Taylor/ABC via AP)

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    A night of Disney tunes led ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” to the largest audience of its current season and to the top of the television rankings.

    The Nielsen company said an estimated 12.5 million people watched “Dancing,” which featured the contestants showing their steps to songs made famous by ABC’s parent company. Light fare dominated the top of Nielsen’s charts, with NBC’s “The Voice” and “Little Big Shots” also scoring well.

    Some of CBS’ most popular series – “NCIS,” ‘’The Big Bang Theory” and “NCIS: New Orleans” – showed repeat episodes, shuffling the rankings.

    Still, CBS’ bench strength enabled it to win the week, averaging 7.5 million viewers in prime time. NBC had 5.7 million and ABC had 5.4 million, while winning among the most valuable youthful demographic. Fox had 3.2 million viewers, Univision had 1.9 million, Telemundo had 1.29 million, ION Television had 1.27 million and the CW had 1.1 million.

    Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.15 million viewers in prime time. CNN had 1.66 million, USA had 1.61 million, HGTV had 1.46 million and TBS had 1.37 million.

    NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.3 million viewers. ABC’s “World News Tonight” was second with 8 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.8 million viewers.

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

    1. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 12.51 million.

    2. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 10.81 million.

    3. “Little Big Shots,” NBC, 10.66 million.

    4. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 10.45 million.

    5. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.41 million.

    5. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 10.41 million.

    7. “Empire,” Fox, 10.11 million.

    8. “NCIS,” CBS, 9.99 million.

    9. “Madam Secretary,” CBS, 9.57 million.

    10. “NCIS: New Orleans” (Tuesday, 8 p.m.), CBS, 9.05 million.

    11. “NCIS: New Orleans” (Tuesday, 10 p.m.), CBS, 9.04 million.

    12. “The Voice” (Wednesday), NBC, 8.88 million.

    13. “Criminal Minds,” CBS, 8.82 million.

    14. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 8.62 million.

    15. “Scorpion,” CBS, 8.6 million.

    16. “The Good Wife,” CBS, 8.55 million.

    17. “Hawaii Five-O,” CBS, 8.42 million.

    18. “Survivor,” CBS, 8.4 million.

    19. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 8.24 million.

    20. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 7.97 million.

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    Supreme Court Allows Multibillion-Dollar Class Action Lawsuit To Proceed Against Meta

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors' lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

    The justices heard arguments in November in Meta's bid to shut down the lawsuit. On Friday, they decided that they were wrong to take up the case in the first place.

    The high court dismissed the company's appeal, leaving in place an appellate ruling allowing the case to go forward.

    Investors allege that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump 's first successful Republican presidential campaign in 2016.

    Inadequacy of the disclosures led to two significant price drops in the price of the company's shares in 2018, after the public learned about the extent of the privacy scandal, the investors say.

    Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the company was disappointed by the court's action. "The plaintiff's claims are baseless and we will continue to defend ourselves as this case is considered by the District Court," Stone said in an emailed statement.

    Meta already has paid a $5.1 billion fine and reached a $725 million privacy settlement with users.

    Cambridge Analytica had ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon. It had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign.

    The lawsuit is one of two high court cases involving class-action lawsuits against tech companies. The justices also are wrestling with whether to shut down a class action against Nvidia.... Read More

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