By David Bauder, Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --Television viewers are ready for some football.
Three college matchups scored among the Nielsen company's four most-watched television programs last week. Only an episode of NBC's "America's Got Talent" broke through.
The most popular game was ABC's Saturday night telecast where Georgia handed third-ranked Clemson a loss in Charlotte, North Carolina. The other popular matchups paired Notre Dame and Florida State and Ohio State and Minnesota.
It's all a warmup act for pro football, which starts its season this week and promises to dominate live television viewing.
Since it showed two of the three games, ABC was the week's most-watched network in primetime, with an average of 4.4 million viewers. CBS had 2.6 million, NBC had 2.53 million, Fox had 2.49 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Ion Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 1 million.
Fox News Channel led the cable networks, averaging 2.59 million viewers in primetime. MSNBC had 1.218 million, ESPN had 1.217 million, HGTV had 1.05 million and TLC had 921,000.
ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.2 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 6.9 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5 million.
For the week of Aug. 30-Sept. 5, the 20 most-watched programs in primetime, their networks and viewerships:
1. College Football: Georgia vs. Clemson, ABC, 8.86 million.
2. College Football: Notre Dame vs. Florida State, ABC, 7.75 million.
3. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 7.19 million.
4. College Football: Ohio State at Minnesota, Fox, 6.3 million.
5. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 6.1 million.
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 5.91 million.
7. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Monday), Fox News, 4.31 million.
8. "Big Brother" (Thursday), CBS, 4.1 million.
9. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 4.01 million.
10. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.85 million.
11. "Hannity" (Monday), Fox News, 3.84 million.
12. "NCIS," CBS, 3.83 million.
13. "College Football Pregame" (Sunday), ABC, 3.82 million.
14. "CMA Summer Jam," ABC, 3.68 million.
15. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 3.67 million.
16. "Hannity" (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.62 million.
17. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.52 million.
18. "The $100,000 Pyramid," ABC, 3.514 million.
19. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 3.505 million.
20. "Hannity" (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.393 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