Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019

“The Big Bang Theory” is starting to pick up ratings steam in the final stretch of its 12-year run.

The CBS sitcom was last week’s most-watched entertainment show as total viewership ticked up to a 2018-19 season high of more than 13 million, according to Nielsen figures Tuesday.

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Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019

Fox hoped to use a week when there wasn’t much else on broadcast television besides football to draw attention to its new competition “The Masked Singer.” The strategy proved sound.

The Nielsen company said that 9.37 million people watched the series debut last Wednesday. That was the...

Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018

The 16-year-old charmer who conquered “The Voice” with her old-school country touch helped boost NBC to a weekly ratings win.

Nearly 10 million viewers watched Chevel Shepherd win the singing contest, making it last week’s most popular entertainment show. Shepherd, of Farmington, New...

Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018

Terry Bradshaw thought his career as a football analyst was over in 1993 when CBS lost the NFL rights to Fox. But instead of going back to cattle ranching, he has had a front-row seat to the biggest sports broadcasting startup of the past quarter-century.

"It seems like an eternity. We...

Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018

Professional football — the lifeblood of live television this time of year — illustrated its dominance in the ratings this past week.

Four NFL games finished among the Nielsen company’s 20 most popular primetime programs, with NBC’s Sunday night and Fox’s Thursday contests the top two....

Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018

Some of last week's most popular television programs are much older than most of the people who watched them.

ABC's showing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was the most-watched of a handful of holiday specials that aired in primetime last week, reaching 5.3 million viewers, the Nielsen...

Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018

Score one week for NBC in what’s becoming an intriguing battle with CBS for dominance in the television ratings this season.

NBC’s victory in the most recent measurements provided by the Nielsen company means it has won bragging rights for three weeks so far this fall, with CBS also...

Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018

While political battles raged, viewers overwhelmingly cast their TV votes for football.

Eight of the 10 most popular telecasts last week were NFL and college games or related programs, according to Nielsen ratings released Tuesday.

NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” Green Bay-New...

Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018

CBS was television’s most popular network last week, but that status is no longer the slam-dunk that it has been for the last decade and a half.

It was CBS’ second weekly victory of the young television season, matching NBC’s two victories, the Nielsen company said Tuesday. NBC handily...

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018

The Senate’s vote confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent viewers flocking to Fox News Channel, which recorded its biggest Saturday audience in more than a decade.

Fox’s daytime audience was bigger than any for the network since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, while its Saturday...

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