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Real life may have finally caught up with reality television. Though the new TV season is barely a week old, early ratings data seem to show that viewers' once-insatiable appetite [...]

BUENOS AIRES The final episode of "Gran Hermano," the local version of reality skein "Big Brother," captured an astonishing 90% viewer share for broadcaster Telefe. It averaged 20 ratings points […]

Chileans like their television spicy, according to a new survey. Erotic movies shown by broadcaster Chilevision earn top ratings in the country. An overwhelming 74% of those questioned said that [...]

HONG KONG BBC Worldwide would like to inform you that it's trouncing the competition in Hong Kong. But wait a minute -- Singapore-based business channel CNBC thinks it's on top. [...]

ARGENTINA Feature films $20,000 TV movies $10,000 Dramas $5,000 Sitcoms $2,000 Docs $3,000 Children's $750 Music/arts $4,000 Feature films up to $600,000 TV movies up to $60,000 Dramas $19,800 Sitcoms [...]

TV Azteca, Mexico's No. 2 web, has announced record pre-sold advertising of $390 million for this year -- a 12% real increase on Azteca's haul of $324 million in 2000. [...]

`HOME' FOR THE HOLIDAYS Fox's preem of 'Home Alone 3' on Dec. 22 delivered the network's largest Friday teen audience ever, and also scored the highest teen share for any [...]

HOLLYWOOD Less than one year after 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' almost single-handedly lifted ABC from third to first place, the tremendous burden of carrying the net on its [...]

Coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics from Sydney is off to a sluggish ratings start on NBC compared with recent Games. A look at ratings for this year through five [...]

HOLLYWOOD In its first week sans Kathie Lee Gifford, "Live! With Regis" continued to post healthy ratings, despite dipping 29% from the previous week's goodbye bonanza. "Live!" earned a 4.2 […]

Season averages for new series that premiered after the regular season Net # of aired Adults 18-49 episodes Survivor CBS 10 9.9 Big Brother CBS 23 4.2 Mysterious Ways NBC [...]

NEW YORK ABC leads the network news pack with 21 nominations for the 21st annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. The Alphabet web bagged Emmy bids in most major races, [...]

MEN HOOP IT UP The seventh game of the NBA Western Conference finals between Portland and the Los Angeles Lakers June 4 delivered one of the highest men adults 18-49 [...]

HOLLYWOOD The second week of sweeps saw a rollercoaster ride in the ratings for a number of talkers, as producers went all out trying to grab that extra set of [...]

HOLLYWOOD Sometimes, it seems like ABC can't win for winning. Despite using 600-pound gorilla 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' likely to take its second sweeps in a row among [...]

HOLLYWOOD Audiences have been enjoying the changing face of talkshows. Robin Givens, as Mother Love's replacement on Twentieth's 'Forgive or Forget,' clearly struck a chord with auds Jan. 17 as [...]

MOB RULE With a vast promotional push behind it, HBO's second-season premiere of 'The Sopranos' shot up by an octave or two over all previous Nielsen results, especially among young [...]

B'CAST DOMINANCE? HUMBUG! Aggressive sweeps fare kept the broadcast nets in control of Sunday nights during November, but cable returned with a vengeance Dec. 5. The cable surge was led [...]

HOLLYWOOD Syndication's second week of sweeps spelled good news for most syndicators with a slew of stunts, promotions and advertising boosting most talkers and courtshows to new season highs for […]

This was supposed to be the fall when NBC was finally vulnerable on Thursdays, and every competing network took up the challenge by programming the night more aggressively than it [...]

HOLLYWOOD The initial Nielsen verdict on this year's syndicated TV season has the gavel coming down firmly with courtshows. Syndication's courtroom genre continued to tear up the ratings charts according [...]

The 1999 New York Yankees may be a team for the ages, but their dominance has meant highly forgettable Nielsen ratings. The Oct. 27 series-clinching victory snagged the best World [...]

TOKYO Of the five Japanese commercial terrestrial networks, Fuji TV is the only one that has maintained the top earnings position for 16 years in a row, since 1983. Although [...]

WRESTLING WITH DOWNSCALE Among last season's top five basic cable nets in the upscale demo of adults 18-49 in homes with annual incomes of $75,000-plus, only ESPN and Discovery--webs that [...]

Commercial webs recorded better-than-average growth rates in gross advertising revenues compared to other media in the first six months of the year per A.C. Nielsen figures released July 27. Compared [...]

HOLLYWOOD Call it the great network divide. The just-concluded 2001-02 season developed into a battle between the haves and have-nots, with NBC and CBS combining to claim the season's 20 [...]

NIELSEN SCORECARD Top primetime shows of the week (May 17-23, 2010) Adults 18-49 Overall and Rank Series (Network) rating/share in millions 1. American Idol-Tue. (Fox) 6.7/19 18.68 2. American Idol-Wed. [...]

The Chicago Cubs helped drive Fox to its best Division Series opener ever with 10.86 million viewers. In adults 18-49, the Cubs' face-off with the Atlanta Braves scored a 4.1/12--the [...]

HOLLYWOOD And on the sixth day, they rested their remotes. Saturday remains the loneliest night of the week for viewers of broadcast television, and nothing this fall appears capable of […]

HOLLYWOOD 'American Idol' has hit some high ratings notes for Fox on Tuesday--and that has most of the other nets singing the blues. Fox's decision to plant the hourlong edition [...]

TOP 5 CABLE TV SHOWS Rank Title Cabler No. of viewers * 1. The Sopranos HBO 9.76 2. NFL: Miami at Denver ESPN 9.60 3. Trading Spaces TLC 5.06 4. [...]

Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner hasn't stopped kicking himself since Warner Bros.' 'Scooby-Doo' raked in a record opening-week June gross of $56 million. The reason: As head of West [...]

Network executives in rebuild mode at the Alphabet and Fox now face the toughest challenge of all: get ting the word out. After all, recapturing those ever-elusive eyeballs isn't just [...]

CBS may have found a fifth laffer for the fall, as 'Baby,' airing Mondays at 8:30, has performed solidly in its first five tries. The only crowd that's not exactly [...]

NEWS ALERT While network evening newscasts have seen growth in total viewers, the key demo of 25-54 has hardly budged. 25-54 % change vs. Show rating/share * '00-'01 NBC 3.6/14 [...]

Looking for a little bit of sex and violence with your entertainment fare? Flip right past the broadcast networks, which are featuring less of both, according to a new study. [...]

HOLLYWOOD Clearing out the notebook, as we move from skating and sweeps to spring: * NBC picked up a ratings gold medal for its coverage of the Winter Olympics, but [...]

Fox's new hit laffer 'The Bernie Mac Show' has proved to be great counterprogramming on Wednesdays opposite NBC's 'The West Wing.' There appeared to be little overlap in their audiences [...]

TOP 5 TV SHOWS Rank Title No of viewers * Network 1. Friends NBC 29.24 2. NFL Playoffs- Sat. CBS 28.72 3. ER NBC 26.14 4. CSI CBS 24.07 5. [...]

GAME OVER? It's official: American TV viewers' interest in reality and game formats is beginning to wane this season. Fox and UPN were the forerunners of the trend during the [...]

France's private terrestrial broadcaster TF1 neared a clean sweep in the 1998 ratings stakes, grabbing 95 of the top 100 program slots of the year, according to figures just released [...]