Nielsen
Americans stuck at home staring at fading furniture and wondering what to cook for dinner have been a boon for television networks like HGTV and the Food Network.
The Food Network's overall ratings in April were up 25 percent over the same month last year, while HGTV was up 22 percent,...
Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, Chris Cuomo, Bret Baier, Nicolle Wallace and Anderson Cooper have more in common than you think — at least this month.
Each cable news host recorded their most-watched months ever in April, with coronavirus pandemic stay-at-home orders assuring a captive...
Lady Gaga, Michael Jordan and the remote Rolling Stones provided television entertainment over the weekend for millions of Americans homebound because of the coronavirus.
Gaga helped organize the "One World: Together at Home" concert that featured musicians like the Stones, Paul McCartney...
A contentious interview with White House adviser Peter Navarro over the administration's response to the coronavirus helped "60 Minutes" earn the top spot in the ratings for the third time this season.
The venerable CBS news show drew 9.68 million viewers to edge out three NBC shows: "...
Two television shows that were saying farewell last week — one permanently and the other for a few months — may have gained more viewers as people stayed home last week because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The final episode of CBS' "Hawaii Five-0" and the season finale of ABC's "The Good...
Instead of watching their own finances crater, shut-in television viewers tuned in to the game show "Let's Make a Deal" in record numbers last week.
TV programs across the dial recorded superlatives last week with a captive audience of millions of Americans told to stay home because of...
A fixture on television, actress Julie Bowen of "Modern Family" is doing the same thing as millions of other people during the widespread coronavirus shutdown.
She's sitting at home, watching more television than she normally would.
In a world turned upside down by disease, TV...
With millions of Americans homebound due to the coronavirus pandemic, there's little surprise they're curious about what's going on in the world.
News programs reached more people than they had in years and, in one case, notched its biggest average audience ever, the Nielsen company said...
Reflecting a hunger for information about the coronavirus outbreak, last Thursday's episode of ABC's "World News Tonight" had more viewers than anything that aired in television's primetime last week.
That edition of the David Muir-anchored broadcast reached 10.8 million viewers, slightly...
There's only one television show that can stand atop the weekly ratings and say it did the same thing more than 40 years ago.
That's CBS' venerable newsmagazine "60 Minutes," which was the week's most popular show with an episode that led with Dr. Jon LaPook talking about the coronavirus...