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    “Bachelor” Finale Engages Viewers; Nielsen Week In Review

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    Cast members Cassie Randolph, left, and Colton Underwood from the reality series, “The Bachelor,” appear during an interview in New York on Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Gary Gerard Hamilton)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    An unusual ending to ABC’s long-running attempted love matches on “The Bachelor” paid off for the network.

    Both parts of the finale to the 23rd edition of the series hit the Nielsen company’s top 10 last week, as bachelor Colton Underwood — who started his reign as a virgin — revealed he was dating contestant Cassie Randolph.

    That wasn’t initially the plan, since Underwood jumped a fence to abandon the two women who had been finalists to chase Randolph, who had left the show.

    The show’s performance led ABC to its fourth weekly win in a row among viewers aged 18-to-49, the demographic its advertisers chase. That’s ABC’s longest streak among this group in nearly four years.

    CBS won the week among all viewers, averaging 6 million people watching in primetime. ABC had 5.1 million, NBC had 4.5 million, Fox had 2.7 million, Univision and ION Television tied with 1.37 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and the CW had 900,000.

    Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.33 million viewers in primetime. ESPN had 1.94 million, MSNBC had 1.82 million, HGTV had 1.28 million and History had 1.22 million.

    ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening newscasts with an average of 8.6 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.2 million viewers and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.1 million.

    Below are primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 11-17. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.

    1. “NCIS,” CBS, 12.08 million.
    2. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 10.54 million.
    3. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 10.1 million.
    4. “FBI,” CBS, 8.96 million.
    5. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 8.47 million.
    6. “Bachelor Season Finale” (Tuesday), ABC, 8.24 million.
    7. “The Bachelor” (Monday), ABC, 8.16 million.
    8. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 7.84 million.
    9. “The Good Doctor,” ABC, 7.78 million.
    10. “This is Us,” NBC, 7.75 million.
    11. “God Friended Me,” CBS, 7.73 million.
    12. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 7.64 million.
    13. “Survivor,” CBS, 7.54 million.
    14. “American Idol” (Sunday), ABC, 7.18 million.
    15. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 6.98 million.
    16. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 6.58 million.
    17. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 6.54 million.
    18. “The Neighborhood,” CBS, 6.44 million.
    19. “Magnum P.I.,” CBS, 6.05 million.
    20. “New Amsterdam,” NBC, 5.99 million.

    ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a division of CBS Corp.; Fox is owned by 21st Century Fox; 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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