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    Winter Olympics Boost NBC To Weekly Ratings Win

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    In this Feb. 13, 2018, file photo, Chloe Kim, of the United States, celebrates winning gold after the women's halfpipe finals at Phoenix Snow Park at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

    By Lynn Elber, Television Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    The aerial wizardry of snowboarders Shaun White and Chloe Kim lifted the Winter Olympics and NBC to a weekly ratings victory.

    Veteran White’s gold-medal comeback in the halfpipe gave NBC the most-watched night in prime-time last week, according to Nielsen ratings released Wednesday.

    Kim’s unprecedented combination of spins for a woman in competition captured gold for her and delivered almost as many viewers as tuned in the night of White’s performance.

    Altogether, Olympic broadcasts from Pyeongchang, South Korea, claimed seven of the week’s top 10 slots. In 8th place was CBS’ “60 Minutes” featuring Oprah Winfrey’s second round-table with Michigan voters, including supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump.

    Winfrey has downplayed suggestions that she consider a 2020 presidential run, telling “60 Minutes” in an online interview ahead of the broadcast that it’s “not in my DNA.”

    For the week of Feb. 12-18, NBC averaged 17.62 million viewers. That bested the combined viewership of the three other major broadcast networks by the largest margin for any regular season, non-Super Bowl week since electronic “people meters” came into use, the network said.

    CBS was second with 4.48 million viewers, followed by Fox with 1.65 million, Univision with 1.43 million, ION Television with 1.3 million, Telemundo with 1.18 million and the CW with 930,000.

    Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.23 million viewers in prime time. TNT had 2.4 million, MSNBC had 1.72 million, USA had 1.44 million and HGTV had 1.23 million.

    Among network newscasts, numbers don’t tell the full story. Because of the Olympics, NBC’s “Nightly News” was shifted hours earlier in a quarter of the country and affecting a head-to-head comparison.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight,” airing in its regular spot for five nights, drew 9.14 million viewers. Three of NBC’s newscasts averaged 8.77 million viewers, with two others drawing 8.1 million. CBS’ “Evening News” averaged 6.76 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 12-18. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. Winter Olympics (Tuesday), NBC, 20.5 million.
    2. Winter Olympics (Monday), NBC, 20.3 million.
    3. Winter Olympics (Wednesday), NBC, 17.1 million.
    4. Winter Olympics (Friday), NBC, 16.6 million.
    5. Winter Olympics (Sunday), NBC, 16.4  million.
    6. Winter Olympics (Thursday), NBC, 16.2 million.
    7. Winter Olympics (Saturday), NBC, 14.5 million.
    8. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.5 million.
    9. “The Big Bang Theory” (Thursday), CBS, 7.4 million.
    10. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 7.1 million.
    11. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.95 million.
    12. “The Big Bang Theory”(special, Thursday), CBS, 6.1 million.
    13. “The Bachelor,” ABC, 6 million.
    14. “Bull,” CBS, 5.6 million.
    15. “Big Brother” (Wednesday), CBS, 5.2 million.
    16. “Big Brother” (Monday), CBS, 5.16 million.
    17. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 5.1 million.
    18. “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” ABC, 5 million.
    19. “Mom,” CBS, 4.97 million.
    20. “Big Brother” (Sunday), CBS, 4.91 million.

    ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; NBC is owned by NBC Universal.

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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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