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Dick Clark — Gone But Not Forgotten — On New Year’S Eve
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Although Dick Clark died last April, he was certainly not forgotten on New Year’s Eve, as a two-hour ABC special, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Celebrates Dick Clark, averaged 9.35 million viewers — more than twice the number of viewers who tuned in for any other program airing between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Monday night. Then at 10:00 p.m. Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest soared to 13.26 million viewers, clobbering NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly, which captured 3.80 million viewers (although NBC issued a press release observing that »
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Big Bang Theory — Biggest Ratings Bang Since Friends
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Unless it falters substantially in the ratings between now and the end of the season in May, CBS’s The Big Bang Theory could turn out to be the most-watched sitcom since Friends went off the air in 2004, according to the website Zap2it.com. The website noted that first-run shows of the comedy are averaging 20.3 million viewers, while, with repeats, it has been averaging 19.05 million. The final season of NBC’s Friends wound with an average of about 20.8 million, Zap2it observed, while the biggest comedy since has been Everybody Loves Raymond, with 17.4 million viewers in its final season. »
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Hannity, O’Reilly See Ratings Plummet
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Politico.com media columnist Dylan Byers has taken issue with New York Daily News TV writer Don Kaplan, who on Sunday headlined his column “Political commentator Sean Hannity was one of the big losers in the 2012 election.” Kaplan had written that Hannity’s ratings had “cratered” following the election as he lost around half his audience, while colleague Bill O’Reilly’s audience had dropped by nearly a third. He attributed the loss to viewer disillusionment over Hannity’s repeated forecasts — and those of his guests — that Mitt Romney would defeat Barack Obama by a landslide margin. Byers, on the other hand, »
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NBC’S Sunday Night Football Draws Best Ratings Ever
31 December 2012 11:21 AM, PST
An average of 25.8 million viewers watched the Sunday Night Football matchup between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys — the highest ratings ever for the NBC primetime feature. That figure may rise further when final totals are announced later today (Monday). The telecast drew more viewers than all of the competing shows combined in each hour of prime time between 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. At 7:00, the first hour of primetime on Sundays, football also dominated, with an overrun on Fox drawing 22.2 million viewers. Aware that they would be badly beaten, the other networks tossed in the towel and aired reruns, »
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Football To Dominate Weekends From Now ‘Til Super Bowl
31 December 2012 11:21 AM, PST
Each of the major networks, with the exception of ABC, will have a piece of the NFL playoff action in the run-up to CBS’s coverage of the Super Bowl on Feb. 3. On Sunday, the NFL released its calendar of playoffs beginning with next week’s Wild Card weekend that, starting on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. with the Afc Wild Card Game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Houston Texans, followed at 8:00 p.m. with the Nfc Wildcard Game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers. Both games will be televised by NBC. On Sunday CBS »
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Report: Intel Planning To Unveil “Virtual Cable” Box
31 December 2012 11:20 AM, PST
Intel is the latest company planning to get a jump on Apple’s long-rumored Apple TV set by launching a settop box in 2013 that will combine a number of broadcast and cable channels as well as streaming video-on-demand services at a price well below what a typical cable operator charges. According to TechCrunch.com, Intel’s “virtual cable” box will be unveiled at an Intel news conference scheduled o be held at the annual CES show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7. The tech site, which cited a source in the video distribution industry directly familiar with Intel’s plans, said »
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Tribune Emerges From Bankruptcy
31 December 2012 11:19 AM, PST
Tribune Co. is due to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today (Monday) with a new board composed mostly of TV and movie executives who have had little experience running either newspapers or television stations, Tribune’s principal properties. It owns eight newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, and the Orlando Sentinel, and 28 TV stations, including Wgn-tv (and Wgn America) in Chicago, Ktla in Los Angeles, Wpix in New York City, as well as stations in such major markets as Washington DC, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Miami, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Hartford, San Diego, and New Orleans. »
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Former BBC Anchor “Ashamed” Of Its Current News Coverage
31 December 2012 11:18 AM, PST
One of the BBC’s most respected and renowned journalists has unleashed a torrent of criticism at the publicly supported broadcaster. Writing in The Mail on Sunday, former anchor and foreign correspondent Michael Buerk said that while he watched its coverage of the Queen’s Jubilee, “I was so ashamed of the BBC I would have wept if I hadn’t been so angry.” Instead of providing insight into a pageant “rich in historical continuities,” the BBC offered instead “a succession of daytime airheads” who were “cringingly inept,” he wrote. In an obvious reference to George Entwistle, then head of BBC Vision, »
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