By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --Not only can President Donald Trump's niece Mary sell books, she can draw a crowd on television.
Her one-hour interview with Rachel Maddow last Thursday reached 5.2 million people, the biggest audience ever for one of Maddow's shows and largest ever for a regularly-scheduled show on MSNBC, the Nielsen company said.
That's not bad for July, when television audiences are generally the smallest of the year.
Mary Trump's book, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man," approached 1 million units sold on pre-orders alone. First-week sales figures are due later this week.
Mary Trump also drew a crowd to CNN on Friday, where she was interviewed by Chris Cuomo during the 8 and 9 p.m. Eastern hours, though not to the level as Maddow's audience. Cuomo's first-hour audience of 2.19 million was up 28% from the year's average, while the second hour's 2.66 million was up 39%, Nielsen said.
CBS won the week in prime time, averaging 3.2 million viewers. NBC had 3 million, ABC had 2.8 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Fox had 1.3 million, ION Television reached 1.1 million and Telemundo had 820,000.
Fox News Channel led the cable networks with an average of 2.94 million viewers in primetime. MSNBC was second with 2.03 million, CNN had 1.59 million, HGTV had 1.29 million and TLC had 1.26 million.
ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news networks with an average of 8.9 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.6 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.2 million.
For the week of July 13-19, the top 20 shows in primetime, their networks and viewership:
1. "America's Got Talent," NBC, 7.63 million.
2. "The Rachel Maddow Show" (Thursday), MSNBC, 5.24 million.
3. "NCIS," CBS, 5.04 million.
4. "60 Minutes," CBS, 4.96 million.
5. "FBI," CBS, 4.42 million.
6. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 4.26 million.
7. "United We Fall," ABC, 4.24 million.
8. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 4.08 million.
9. "Celebrity Family Feud," ABC, 4.03 million.
10. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Monday), Fox News, 4 million.
11. "Hannity" (Monday), Fox News, 3.99 million.
12. "FBI: Most Wanted," CBS, 3.97 million.
13. "Hannity" (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.843 million.
14. "Hannity" (Thursday), Fox News, 3.835 million.
15. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Tuesday), 3.81 million.
16. "World of Dance," NBC, 3.76 million.
17. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 3.753 million.
18. "Titan Games," NBC, 3.752 million.
19. "Hannity" (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.74 million.
20. "Magnum, P.I., CBS, 3.738 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