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    Oscars Help ABC Earn A Rare Primetime Ratings Win This Past Week

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    In this Feb. 28, 2016 file photo, host Chris Rock speaks at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

    While overall audience was down, black viewership held up better for Academy Awards

    By David Bauder, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Don’t blame the effort to promote an Oscars boycott among blacks because of diversity concerns for the drop in Academy Awards viewership this year.

    The Nielsen company said Tuesday that an estimated 3.22 million black viewers watched the Oscars on ABC Sunday, a decline of 2 percent from the 2015 show. The show’s overall viewership of 34.4 million was an eight-year low, and a drop of nearly 8 percent from the year before.

    Prior to the Chris Rock-hosted show, anger about a lack of minority nominees for the big awards led to the call for black viewers to tune out. It apparently wasn’t heeded, or viewers wanted to hear what Rock had to say about the issue – and it was the central theme of his monologue.

    Within the past decade, the Oscars had a smaller number of black viewers in 2012, 2011, 2009 and 2008, Nielsen said.

    So the academy must look to other explanations for the drop; the general theory has been that the popularity of movies up for Oscars is the biggest factor in viewership fluctuations. Ratings for the Golden Globes were also down this year.

    The Oscars enabled ABC to take a rare primetime win in the Nielsens, as the network averaged 9.4 million viewers. CBS had 7.8 million viewers, NBC had 4.4 million, Fox had 4 million, Univision had 1.9 million, the CW had 1.8 million, ION Television had 1.3 million and Telemundo had 1.2 million.

    CNN was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.36 million in prime time with the help of a Republican presidential debate. Fox News Channel had 2.03 million, USA had 1.7 million, HGTV had 1.69 million and TBS had 1.63 million.

    NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.91 million viewers. ABC’s “World News Tonight” was second with 8.88 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 7.7 million viewers.

    Here are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 22-28. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. Academy Awards, ABC, 34.43 million.

    2. “Live From the Red Carpet, Part 3,” ABC, 22.28 million.

    3. “NCIS,” CBS, 17.47 million.

    4. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 15.94 million.

    5. “Live From the Red Carpet, Part 2,” ABC, 15.7 million.

    6. Republican Presidential Debate, CNN, 13.1 million.

    7. “The Walking Dead,” AMC, 12.79 million.

    8. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 12.6 million.

    9. “Live From the Red Carpet, Part 1,” ABC, 11.53 million.

    10. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 10.33 million.

    11. “Scorpion,” CBS, 9.87 million.

    12. “Life in Pieces,” CBS, 9.21 million.

    13. “American Idol” (Wednesday), Fox, 8.92 million.

    14. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 8.83 million.

    15. “American Idol” (Thursday), Fox, 8.72 million.

    16. “Criminal Minds,” CBS, 8.68 million.

    17. “The Bachelor,” ABC, 8.67 million.

    18. “Survivor,” CBS, 8.39 million.

    19. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 8.3 million.

    20. “Modern Family,” ABC, 8.1 million.

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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