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TV ad revenues are in for the fourth quarter, and, except for some big cable networks, they are higher than fourth quarter 1999 revenues, but not by much. But the [...]

Broadcast Watch FEB. 19-25 Broadcast network prime time ratings according to Nielsen Media Research Week 21 abc CBS 8.8/14 9.4/14 8:00 29. ABC Monday Night 28. King of Queens 8.9/14 [...]

Are drug problems in the Tour de France discouraging advertisers from supporting the event? With drug scandals stealing most of the headlines from each Tour de France since 1998, sponsors [...]

Wall Street shaves 4% off stock price after first-quarter warning After the stock market closed on Friday, Feb. 9, Hearst-Argyle Television (HTV) warned analysts and investors that first-quarter revenue will [...]

BroadcastWatch FEB. 5-11 Broadcast network prime time ratings according to Nielsen Media Research Week abc CBS 19 MONDAY 6.6/10 10.4/16 8:00 51. ABC Monday Night 28. Xing of Queens 9.5/15 [...]

CBS' decision to air Survivor: The Australian Outback on Thursdays at 8 p.m. paid off, as the reality hour posted a 17.3 rating/26 share in households and an 11.9/28 among [...]

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. [...]

BROADCASTING & CABLE/BLOOMBERG STOCK INDEXE FINANCIAL WRAP-UP Week of January 22-26 1/26 % change WINNERS Granite Best. $2.63 15.07 Antec Corp. $12.19 10.17 Young Best. $36.75 9.70 Big City Radio [...]

A) A LITTLE DOWN In its second outing, ABC's reality series The Mole wasn't quite the hit it was in its initial outing, but it still brought in the viewers. [...]

`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 [...]

Coronation Street's 40th anniversary helped ITV continue its lead over BBC1 last week (December 4-10), with an hour-long episode from 8pm to 9pm on Friday December 8 delivering an audience [...]

Top 5 percentage gainers: Pegasus Communications 9.33 Crown Media Holdings 7.87 Insight Communications Inc. 6.63 EchoStar Communications Corp. 6.27 Shop at Home 5.56 Top 5 percentage losers: Antec -32.52 C-COR.net [...]

NBC wrests 18-49s away, ties ABC in total viewers What a difference a year makes. This time last year, ABC and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? were taking off [...]

ITV has maintained a ten-point percentage lead in peaktime viewers over BBC1 for the fourth week running. Between November 20 and 26 ITV scored a 38.7% share, slightly down on [...]

ITV triumphed again last week with a 37.6% share of peaktime viewers, ahead of BBC1's 27.6%. The figures from ITV for Monday November 6 to Sunday 12 showed a drop [...]

About 20 percent of the Bay Area market is composed of Hispanics, for a total Hispanic population of 1.3 million people. Close to 70 percent of those are of Mexican [...]

With more than 1.4 million Hispanics, comprising 38 percent of the area's population, and with 68 percent of Hispanic households Spanish-dominant, Miami-Fort Lauderdale is the only media market that is [...]

The New York Hispanic market has historically been dominated by Puerto Ricans, who currently make up 45 percent of the city's Latin population. A little over 18 percent, or 3.5 [...]

While Sacramento is rarely the first location that comes to mind when one thinks of the California, residents can become a bit indignant when their city is referred to as [...]

Hampered by a rare Friday-night start -- and an even rarer all-New York World Series -- Showtime Event Television's Oct. 20 Mike Tyson-Andrew Golota failed to live up to pay-per-view [...]

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 [...]

While FCC chairman William Kennard is blaming TV broadcasters for their faltering transition to digital, WKPT-TV Holston Valley Broadcasting's ABC affiliate in Kingsport, Tenn., last week brought the total number [...]

Zenith Media projects ad spending in the television marketplace will reach $57.4 billion in 2001, a 5 percent increase above the $54.5 billion projected for this year. Zenith also said [...]

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 [...]

Modest TV ad yields expected after big presidential returns The year after the presidential-election campaign probably won't be a memorable one for broadcast-TV ad sales, industry analysts predict, but cable [...]

Companies who delay investing web advertising and continue to plough resources into television ads will miss out on the increasing number of consumers spending time on the internet, according to [...]

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 […]

For the second straight week, ABC won the weekly ratings race in total viewers and adults 18-49. For the week ending Aug. 13, ABC averaged a network-best 9.9 million viewers [...]

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, [...]

Almost half of DTV owners (48%) rely on satellite as the primary source for programming, followed by cable (28%), rooftop antenna (16%) and indoor antenna (2%). Although various TV industry [...]

Info-hungry consumers turning to business mags, newspapers Adults in America are spending far less time entertaining themselves with video games and using computer software and are becoming better informed by [...]

3Q,'99 3Q,'99 Projected 2000 Cable Total Digital % Digital Digital Operator Subscribers Subscribers Subscribers (millions) (millions) (millions) AT&T* 11.4 1.6 14 2.75 Time Warner 13 N/A N/A 1.25 Comcast 5.7 […]

CBS stands to reap as much as $35 million in ad revenue for the season finale of the juggernaut 'Survivor.' CBS is doubling ad prices for the Aug. 23 finale [...]

With South Korea coming out of the economic doldrums, TVA analyses the state of its TV and advertising markets The Korean economy has made a remarkable recovery over the past [...]

UPN, the WB and CBS sitcoms are among the best at holding their audience in repeats, according to Nielsen Media Research data compiled by Horizon Media's main research executive, Brad [...]

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 [...]

Almost a third of daytime TV viewers cannot find anything they want to watch, according to a new survey commissioned by GMTV. The study, which was carried out by Continental [...]

Ascent Entertainment Group expects to record a $155 million pretax gain from the sale of its sports holdings, the company's quarterly report discloses. Ascent agreed last month to sell the [...]

More consumers are choosing satellite TV delivery over cable, according to a Television Bureau of Advertising analysis of February Nielsen data. The TVB report showed that the penetration of alternative [...]

Located in northeast Florida, Jacksonville has long been in the shadow of its more high-profile Florida neighbors to the south and west. But the city, rated by Money magazine in [...]

The 36-hour blackout of ABC in several major markets that began on May 1, resulting from the retransmission-consent dispute between Time Warner Cable and Walt Disney Co., put ABC out [...]

PEOPLE'S CHOICE MAY 1-7 Broadcast network prime time ratings accoring to Nielsen Media Research In a week in which no ABC offering placed lower than 66th, the network grabbed eight [...]

For the first several days of May sweeps, most syndicated series faltered out of the gate, at least as far as the national ratings were concerned. Even the giants slipped [...]

The second Sunday night battle of the May sweeps between the Big Three broadcast networks' miniseries and original movies was a close one, with ABC's Geppetto attracting the most viewers [...]

AS expected, the four celebrity versions of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? led ABC to a banner week in the national ratings. ABC drew its second-largest weekly audience of [...]

Broadcast network prime time ratings according to Nielsen Media Research Aided by 'ER' in the top slot, NBC tied twice: splitting the win for Week 32 with ABC and pulling [...]

Ault, Susanne NBC put an end to ABC's adult 18-49 streak, but the Disney-owned network kept on trucking with its 18th straight week as the most watched broadcast network. NBC [...]