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LAST FALL, R&B singer October London performed 'Back to Your Place' on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with a Snoop Dogg introduction and a seven-piece band including harp and violin players. In [...]

In the 2010s, everyone started watching late night in daylight. Or at least that's what the numbers seem to indicate. Live viewership for the three top-rated late night programs dropped [...]

Byline: JEANINE POGGI More than 15 million people watched Yahoo live-stream a football game? Please. That's how the TV industry often responds when the media reports huge audiences for online [...]

[down arrow] After an assault claim by ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra, the Nerdist founder sees his talk show pulled by AMC as NBC mulls what to do with his game show [...]

Byline: ADAM KEPLER Among the new talk shows, 'Katie' manages to return a large swatch of viewers, but in primetime 'Made in Jersey' shed too many to stay on the [...]

New fall 1995 launches hope to follow in footsteps of talk's newest stars A new constellation of stars is rising on the talk show horizon, with Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones [...]

Byline: Sam Anderson For the past sixteen years, Americans have enjoyed the luxury of a perfect comic binary: Letterman versus Leno. Seldom do the cultural stars align so neatly--two ambitious [...]

Byline: Joshua Alston Craig Ferguson can't beat Dave's or Jay's ratings, but he's got something bigger: a date with the president. Craig Ferguson always hated to fly. Hated it. In [...]

Byline: JANET STILSON At first blush, 'The Tyra Banks Show'' may not seem like a model of super strength among TV talk shows. After all, Nielsen Media Research ranked 'Banks'' [...]

Byline: Chris Pursell Talk shows experienced both the good and the bad of the holiday season for the week ending Dec. 24. NBC Universal's 'Maury'' hit a new ratings high [...]

By Ben Grossman Entire talk genre slips from last year Syndicators are increasingly hesitant about commiting to personality-driven talk shows for the coming year, and the ratings for this past [...]

When it comes to viewer loyalty and commitment, 'Live With Regis and Kelly'' is one of the elite daytime talk shows. Data from Nielsen Media Research for November 2005 shows [...]

Byline: Brian Donlon Here today, gone tomorrow. That's the joke making the rounds at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, home of NBC's 'Today'' program, in the wake of the seismic staff changes [...]

Buena Vista Television last week continued to bolster the station lineup for its rookie talk strip 'The Tony Danza Show.'' Among three big market deals the distributor has clinched for [...]

With the Presidents Day holiday helping to drive up viewing, three strips-King World's 'Dr. Phil'' and Warner Bros.' 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' and 'Judge Mathis''-hit series highs for the week [...]

Buena Vista Television has cleared its first-season talk strip 'The Tony Danza Show'' on stations representing coverage of 60 percent of the country for the 2005-06 season. John Bryan, executive [...]

With the majority of syndicated shows either flat or slightly down for the week ended Dec. 19, Telepictures' 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show'' hit an all-time ratings high. 'Ellen'' scored a [...]

Oprah Winfrey's 50th birthday bash was a rating bonanza and syndicators everywhere celebrated their new series and across-the-board season highs for the week ending Feb. 1. From newsmagazines such as [...]

Rookie strips continued to jockey for position in the household ratings race as they approached the end of September, but the key races may be in the demographics. With all [...]

A pair of national syndication debuts on NBC owned-and-operated stations were hit by midweek pre-emptions due to coverage of the 9/11 anniversary and a decline in overall daytime viewership across [...]

Hurricane Isabel didn't do debuting shows any favors last week, as viewers on the East Coast flocked either to news channels or out of town. Still, Telepictures' duo of 'Sharon [...]

Early ratings for three syndicated strips making national debuts show Telepictures' 'Ellen'' taking a commanding lead at the start of the fall season over the launches of 'Starting Over'' and [...]

Patience may indeed be a virtue when it comes to Twentieth Television's fledgling syndicated strip Good Day Live. The series was launched nationally last January and currently holds a 0.9 [...]

2 Separate segments devoted to the return of Fox's 'American Idol' on NBC's 'Today' show Tuesday 3 Teases during Tuesday's 'Today' to the 'American Idol' segments 6.5 million Average viewership [...]

A changing of the guard is coming in the talk show ranks, with six new strips slated for the upcoming fall season and King World Productions' ``Ananda'' now officially joining [...]

``Iyanla'' may not have torched the talk show landscape with its debut last week, but compared with the debuts of other talk shows in recent years, the new series isn't [...]

Paramount Domestic TV King World slate talker for Oprah regular Viacom's two powerful syndication arms are teaming up for the first time to bring Oprah Winfrey's Dr. Phil McGraw to [...]

HOLLYWOOD After a weeks-long slump, ratings for syndication's talk category perked up during the second full week of the May ratings sweep. The top eight yakkers all posted week-to-week improvement [...]

The first two weekdays and first weekend of the all-important February sweeps left talk shows and newsmagazines in a jolly winter mood, as most series in the genres were up, [...]

Live With Regis lost co-host Kathy Lee Gifford in July, but has gained audience members since then. In the first three weeks of September, the Buena Vista Television strip--using various [...]

Radio's top two formats, News/Talk and Adult Contemporary, have lost some audience share, according to Billboard's analysis of the just-released Spring survey for Arbitron's 92 year-round measurement markets. But the [...]

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 […]

Here's something you don't see every day: studio executives whooping it up after their talk show tumbles 29% in the ratings from the week before. But they were doing just [...]

The beginning of summer break for college and high school students has helped the ratings of younger-skewing talk shows and dating strips in syndication. In the latest national Nielsen Syndication [...]

THE MOVE AWAY FROM MUSIC TO TALK PROgramming on the FM dial isn't isolated to New York. Frank Kelley, group general manager 0f Greater Media's five Boston stations, wasn't actively [...]

FOR THE FIRST TIME, Warner Bros.' The Ellen DeGeneres Show will join the likes of Disney-ABC's Live With Kelly and Michael and Debmar-Mercury's Wendy Williams and offer new episodes in [...]

(Week of April 27-May 1; viewers in millions) 1. Dr. Phil (CBS TV) 4.5m 2. Live With Kelly & Michael (Disney) 3.9m 3. Ellen DeGeneres (WB) 3.3m 4. Maury (NBCU) [...]