By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --Two weekday football games were enough to lift Fox to victory in the weekly ratings race.
The network's coverage of Tuesday's game between Dallas and Baltimore, and Thursday's New England-L.A. Rams matchup took up their entire primetime schedules for the nights.
The Nielsen company said CBS' "60 Minutes" was the most-watched non-football program for the week. The venerable drama "NCIS" was the most popular entertainment program.
Fox averaged 7.3 million viewers in primetime for the week. NBC was second with 5.2 million viewers, CBS had 4.6 million, ABC had 3.8 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1.01 million and Ion Television had 960,000.
Fox News Channel led among the cable networks, averaging 2.69 million viewers in primetime. ESPN had 2.22 million, MSNBC had 2.09 million, CNN had 1.77 million and Hallmark had 1.6 million.
ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings race with an average of 9.4 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.9 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.7 million.
For the week of Dec. 7-13, the 20 most-watched programs, their networks and viewerships:
1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh at Buffalo, NBC, 17.05 million.
2. NFL Football: New England at L.A. Rams, Fox, 13.64 million.
3. NFL Football: Dallas at Baltimore, Fox, 13.54 million.
4. "NFL Pregame," NBC, 13.03 million.
5. "The OT," Fox, 10.43 million.
6. "Football Night in America," NBC, 9.13 million.
7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.1 million.
8. "NFL Pregame," Fox, 9.07 million.
9. "NCIS," CBS, 8.53 million.
10. NFL Football: Buffalo vs. San Francisco, ESPN, 7.76 million.
11. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 6.95 million.
12. "FBI," CBS, 6.71 million.
13. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.64 million.
14. NFL Football: Buffalo vs. San Francisco, ABC, 6.41 million.
15. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 6.38 million.
16. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.04 million.
17. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 5.69 million.
18. "Magnum, P.I., CBS, 5.685 million.
19. "Station 19," ABC, 5.58 million.
20. "Bob Hearts Abishola," CBS, 5.28 million.
SMPTE elects board officers, regional governors
SMPTE®,the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has revealed the board officers and regional governors who will serve terms beginning in January 2025.
Three new officers--Richard Welsh as SMPTE president, Eric Gsell as SMPTE executive VP, and Polly Hickling as SMPTE Education VP--have been elected for a two-year term from Jan. 1, 2025, to Dec. 31, 2026. One SMPTE officer, Lisa Hobbs, will be continuing her service as SMPTE secretary and treasurer for another two-year term. Additionally, Raymond Yeung will be stepping into the role of standards VP on Jan. 1, 2025.
“SMPTE’s membership has spoken,” said SMPTE interim executive director Sally-Ann D’Amato. “These officers have been tasked with an important responsibility, one each of them is prepared to tackle head-on. These next two years are looking bright for SMPTE!”
In addition to the officers, 10 regional governors were elected by the Society to serve two-year 2025-2026 terms.
These include the following regional governors, re-elected to continue their service:
Asia-Pacific Region Governor
Tony Ngai, Society of Motion Imaging Ltd.
EMEA - Central & South America Region Governor
Fernando Bittencourt, FB Consultant
United Kingdom Region Governor
Chris Johns, Sky UK.
USA - Central Region Governor
William T. Hayes, Consultant
USA - Eastern Region Governor
Dover Jeanne Mundt, Riedel Communications
USA - Western Region Governor
Jeffrey F. Way, Open Drives
Also elected were four newcomers to the SMPTE Board:
Canada Region Governor
Jonathan Jobin, Grass Valley
USA - Hollywood Region Governor
Allan Schollnick, Voxx... Read More