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    NCAA Football Helps ABC Score Weekly Nielsen Win

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    Virginia Tech players and coaches celebrate after an NCAA college football game against West Virginia in Landover, Md., Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. Virginia Tech won 31-24. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Football season has begun, and it has already had an impact on the competition among television networks.

    ABC narrowly won the primetime ratings race last week on the strength of its coverage of college football games involving Florida State and Alabama, and West Virginia and Virginia Tech. The network took the week’s crown from NBC, which usually wins in the summer on the strength of “America’s Got Talent.”

    The Nielsen company said Wednesday that “Talent” was the most-watched show of the week, but the Florida St.-Alabama opener was close behind, and earned ABC its largest Saturday-night audience in 19 months.

    For the week, ABC averaged 4.61 million viewers in primetime. NBC had 4.59 million, CBS had 3.9 million, Fox had 2.3 million, Univision and Telemundo were tied at 1.41 million, ION Television had 1.3 million and the CW had 850,000.

    Fox News Channel was the most popular cable network, averaging 2.13 million viewers in primetime. ESPN had 1.78 million, MSNBC had 1.75 million, USA had 1.59 million and HGTV had 1.36 million.

    NBC’s “Nightly News” (8.516 million) and ABC’s “World News Tonight” (8.514 million) were virtually tied in the evening news ratings race. The “CBS Evening News” had 6.2 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 28-Sept. 3. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “America’s Got Talent” (Tuesday), NBC, 13.13 million.
    2. College Football: Florida St. vs Alabama, ABC, 12.34 million.
    3. “America’s Got Talent” (Wednesday), NBC, 11.09 million.
    4. “College Football Pre-Game,” ABC, 7.4 million.
    5. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.05 million.
    6. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 6.13 million.
    7. “American Ninja Warrior,” NBC, 6.11 million.
    8. “NCIS,” CBS, 5.85 million.
    9. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 5.65 million.
    10. College Football: Ohio St. vs Indiana, ESPN, 5.14 million.
    11. “Bull,” CBS, 5.1 million.
    12. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 5.097 million.
    13. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 5.08 million.
    14. “Bachelor in Paradise,” ABC, 5.05 million.
    15. “Big Brother” (Thursday), CBS, 4.89 million.
    16. College Football: West Virginia vs Virginia Tech, ABC, 4.65 million.
    17. “Marlon,” NBC, 4.56 million.
    18. “Hollywood Game Night,” NBC, 4.41 million.
    19. “Hawaii Five-O,” CBS, 4.39 million.
    20. “Dateline Classic,” NBC, 4.25 million.

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    Trump Names Brendan Carr To Lead The FCC

    Monday, November 18, 2024

    President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.

    Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC's general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission.

    The FCC is an independent agency that is overseen by Congress, but Trump has suggested he wanted to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to use the agency to punish TV networks that cover him in a way he doesn't like.

    Carr has of late embraced Trump's ideas about social media and tech. Carr wrote a section devoted to the FCC in " Project 2025," a sweeping blueprint for gutting the federal workforce and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

    Trump has claimed he doesn't know anything about Project 2025, but many of its themes have aligned with his statements.

    Carr said in a statement congratulating Trump on his win that he believed "the FCC will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth."

    "Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans' Freedoms, and held back our Economy," Trump said in a statement on Sunday. "He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America's Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America."

    The five-person commission has a 3-2 Democratic... Read More

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