By David Bauder, Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --The election may be over, but Donald Trump is still providing dividends for Fox News Channel.
The news network aired a special Friday with TMZ’s Harvey Levin getting a personal tour of the president-elect’s home in Trump Tower and being shown some of his memorabilia. It drew more than 4 million viewers, more than anything the network aired on a Friday this year.
Fox repeated the special, filmed in September, on both Saturday and Sunday nights.
The network averaged more than 3 million viewers in primetime all week, leading all cable networks, the Nielsen company said Tuesday.
For the broadcast networks, CBS won the week in primetime, averaging 8.9 million viewers. NBC, with two prime-time NFL games, averaged 8.5 million viewers and won among the 18-to-49-year-old viewers that advertisers seek. ABC averaged 6.1 million viewers, Fox had 3.1 million, Univision had 1.87 million, Telemundo had 1.86 million, the CW had 1.5 million and ION Television had 1.2 million.
Fox News Channel averaged 3.05 million viewers, ESPN had 2.9 million, Hallmark had 2.27 million, USA had 1.498 million and TBS had 1.496 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 9 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.9 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 7.3 million.
Primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Nov. 14-20. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Green Bay at Washington, NBC, 18.73 million.
2. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 14.89 million.
3. “NCIS,” CBS, 14.73 million.
4. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 14.34 million.
5. “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 13.97 million.
6. NFL Football: New Orleans at Carolina, NBC, 13.33 million.
7. “Bull,” CBS, 11.87 million.
8. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 11.34 million.
9. “The Walking Dead,” AMC, 11 million.
10. NFL Football: Cincinnati at N.Y. Giants, ESPN, 10.72 million.
11. “Football Night in America,” NBC, 10.44 million.
12. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 10.43 million.
13. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 10.36 million.
14. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 10.09 million.
15. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.03 million.
16. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 9.75 million.
17. “This is Us,” NBC, 9.51 million.
18. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 9.17 million.
19. “Madam Secretary,” CBS, 8.52 million.
20. “Survivor,” CBS, 8.49 million.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More