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    Fallon Retakes The Lead From Colbert; Nielsen Week In Review

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    In this May 12, 2014 file photo, "The Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon attends the NBC Network 2014 Upfront presentation at the Javits Center in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Jimmy Fallon has topped Stephen Colbert in late-night ratings for the first time since Donald Trump has been president. But the NBC comic might want to keep the champagne on ice.

    The Nielsen company said that Fallon's "Tonight" show averaged 2.66 million viewers last week, a whisker above the 2.62 million achieved by Colbert's "Late Show." CBS' Colbert, with his sharp anti-Trump humor, eclipsed long-time leader Fallon the week after Trump's January inauguration and hasn't looked back.

    NBC's comparatively strong prime-time schedule in the summer may have helped; CBS has been airing mostly reruns lately in prime time. CBS also aired Colbert reruns on Thursday and Friday that were excluded in the ratings. The network believes it would have won if Colbert aired original shows on those nights, and that it will win when people who watch on a time-delayed basis are later counted in.

    NBC won the week in prime time behind its summer hit, "America's Got Talent," and the companion series "World of Dance."

    Fox was nearly invisible in the primetime ratings, with its long-running "So You Think You Can Dance" supplanted by NBC in the hoofer competition.

    NBC averaged 4.6 million viewers for the week, CBS had 4.3 million, ABC had 3.6 million, Fox had 2 million, Univision had 1.4 million, ION Television had 1.32 million, Telemundo had 1.26 million and the CW had 760,000.

    Fox News Channel was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 2.4 million viewers in prime time. ESPN had 1.57 million viewers, MSNBC had 1.49 million, USA had 1.48 million and HGTV had 1.46 million.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.7 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.5 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.9 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for June 19-25. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.

    1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 12.74 million.
    2. "World of Dance," NBC, 7.61 million.
    3. "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.45 million.
    4. "Little Big Shots," NBC, 7.43 million.
    5. "Celebrity Family Feud," ABC, 7.25 million.
    6. "NCIS," CBS, 6.53 million.
    7. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 6.35 million.
    8. "The Bachelorette," ABC, 5.91 million.
    9. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 5.85 million.
    10. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 5.51 million.
    11. "Bull," CBS, 5.48 million.
    12. "Steve Harvey's Funderdome," ABC, 5.47 million.
    13. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 5.39 million.
    14. "The $100,000 Pyramid," ABC, 5.2 million.
    15. "Hawaii Five-0," CBS, 5.02 million.
    16. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 4.9 million.
    17. "20/20," ABC, 4.75 million.
    18. "Wall," NBC, 4.474 million.
    19. "Spartan: Team Challenge," NBC, 4.471 million.
    20. "Mom," CBS, 4.38 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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