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    World Series lifts Fox ratings; Nielsen week in review

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    Atlanta Braves' Travis d'Arnaud points at the dugout while rounding the bases on his solo home run in the eighth inning against the Houston Astros in Game 3 of the baseball World Series on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

    By Lynn Elber, Television Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the young TV season.

    The series rebounded from last year's contest, which hit an all-time viewership low that was attributed to the pandemic and competition from the 2020 presidential election.

    The Houston Astros must-have win Sunday over the Atlanta Braves, then leading the series 3-1, was the standout so far in the potential seven-game series, according to Nielsen figures out Tuesday. 

    The 9-5 Astros victory drew 13.6 million viewers — a 35% jump over the 10 million who watched 2020's Los Angeles Dodgers Game 5 defeat of the Tampa Bay Rays.

    Last year, the Dodgers went on to a six-game win over the Rays that posted a TV rating down 32% from the previous World Series low, the San Francisco Giants' four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers in 2012.

    Bragging rights also went to football and NBC last week, with NFL regular-season games earning the top two spots for the week. 

    Overall, Fox averaged 11.9 million viewers in primetime, followed by NBC with 5.4 million. CBS had 3.9 million, ABC had 3.5 million, Univision had 1.3 million, ION Television had 970,000 and Telemundo had 930,000.

    Fox News Channel was the most-watched cable channel in primetime with an average 2.21 million viewers. It was followed by ESPN with 2.17 million, Hallmark with 1.28 million, MSNBC with 1.11 million and HGTV with 857,000.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings competition, averaging 8.1 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7 million, and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.2 million.

    For the week of Oct. 25-31, the top 20 primetime programs, their networks and viewerships:

    • NFL Football: Green Bay at Arizona, Fox, 20.3 million.
    • NFL Football: Dallas at Minnesota, NBC, 15.7 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 5, Fox, 13.6 million.
    • "The OT," Fox, 13.3 million.
    • MLB Pregame (Sunday), Fox, 12.5 million.
    • NFL Pregame (Sunday), NBC, 11.8 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 3, Fox, 11.2 million.
    • NFL Football: New Orleans at Seattle, ESPN, 11.19 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 1, Fox, 10.8 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 4, Fox, 10.5 million.
    • NFL Pregame (Thursday), Fox, 10.46 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 2, Fox, 10.3 million.
    • NFL Pregame (Sunday), NBC, 9.2 million.
    • "Young Sheldon," CBS, 7.2 million.
    • "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.11 million.
    • "Saturday Night Football: Penn State at Ohio State," ABC, 7.1 million.
    • "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 6.9 million.
    • "Chicago Fire," NBC, 6.801 million.
    • "Chicago Med," NBC, 6.8 million.
    • "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.7 million.
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    South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users

    Tuesday, November 5, 2024
    South Korean Personal Information Protection Commission's director Lee Eun Jung speaks during a briefing at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Lee Jung-hun/Yonhap via AP)

    South Korea's privacy watchdog on Tuesday fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with thousands of advertisers.

    It was the latest in a series of penalties against Meta by South Korean authorities in recent years as they increase their scrutiny of how the company, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, handles private information.

    Following a four-year investigation, South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission concluded that Meta unlawfully collected sensitive information about around 980,000 Facebook users, including their religion, political views and whether they were in same-sex unions, from July 2018 to March 2022.

    It said the company shared the data with around 4,000 advertisers.

    South Korea's privacy law provides strict protection for information related to personal beliefs, political views and sexual behavior, and bars companies from processing or using such data without the specific consent of the person involved.

    The commission said Meta amassed sensitive information by analyzing the pages the Facebook users liked or the advertisements they clicked on.

    The company categorized ads to identify users interested in themes such as specific religions, same-sex and transgender issues, and issues related to North Korean escapees, said Lee Eun Jung, a director at the commission who led the investigation on Meta.

    "While Meta collected this sensitive information and used it for individualized services, they made only vague mentions of this use in their data policy and did not obtain specific consent," Lee said.

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