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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Becomes NBC’s Highest-Rated, Most-Viewed Program of 2022
The live telecast averaged the most total viewers in five years.
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‘America’s Got Talent’ Tops Trump Town Hall in TV Ratings
George Stephanopoulos welcomed Donald Trump Tuesday to an ABC News town hall, when ABC welcomed in 3.8 million viewers.NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” roughed up the town hall’s audience in their shared 9 p.m. hour.NBC and CBS tied for first in ratings, both with a 0.6 rating/4 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic. NBC was first in total viewers with an average of 5 million, according to preliminary numbers. CBS was third in viewers with 2.5 million.Also Read: Trump Says the COVID-19 P
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Joy Reid’s ‘ReidOut’ Debut Wins Time Slot for MSNBC in Total Viewers, but Loses in Key Demo
“The ReidOut,” Joy Reid’s new 7 p.m. MSNBC program, topped the time slot in total viewers with its Monday debut. Unfortunately, the new show still settled for a fairly distant third place among adults 25-54, which is the key demographic for companies advertising on news programming.Erin Burnett on CNN won the demo in the hour, when 384,000 of her 1.332 million total viewers were between the ages of 25 to 54, according to Nielsen estimates.Reid drew 2.627 million total viewers last night, with 28
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CNN Disputes Trump’s Chris Cuomo Jab: ‘Surely You Have More Important Issues Than TV Ratings’
CNN’s public relations department responded to a tweet from President Donald Trump Tuesday and suggested he had “more important issues” to contend with than taking jabs at the success of the network’s primetime hosts.“Yesterday was a bad day for the Cuomo Brothers. New York was lost to the looters, thugs, Radical Left, and all others forms of Lowlife & Scum. The Governor refuses to accept my offer of a dominating National Guard. NYC was ripped to pieces. Likewise, Fredo’s ratings are down 50%!”
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‘The Masked Singer’ Beats NBC’s ‘Chicago’ Crossover in Demo Ratings – But Not in Viewers
“The Masked Singer” was crowned No. 1 in TV ratings among the key demo Wednesday night, but couldn’t best NBC’s “Chicago” crossover in total primetime viewers, according to Nielsen.While the audience for Fox’s singing competition slipped double digits from the numbers put up by its week-ago episode, “Chicago Fire” saw its most-watched episode in a year.Find out who was under the Mouse mask on last night’s episode here.Fox was first in ratings with a 1.4 rating/7 in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 d
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Donald Trump’s 3rd State of the Union Address Tumbles in Broadcast TV Ratings
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was all anybody could talk about on Tuesday, but “Ellen’s Game of Games” showed up for NBC too.This third SOTU from the 45th president of the United States of America is currently down 26% in Big-4 broadcast viewers from his second. According to early Nielsen returns, CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox drew a combined 16 million viewers for the 2020 address. That tally is preliminary, however, and should be considered subject to (upward) adjustment.The comparable ini
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Sean Hannity’s Pre-Super Bowl Trump Interview Scores Record 10.3 Million Viewers
Fox News’ Sean Hannity netted his highest-rated broadcast ever when he spoke to President Donald Trump ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, which aired on Fox networks this year.According to early Nielsen data, the one-on-one interview during Super Bowl LIV’s preshow brought in 10.3 million viewers. Of those 10.3 million, 4.2 million viewers were in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic and 3.3 million were in the 18-49 demo.In 2019, CBS News’ Margaret Brennan interviewed Trump in that same 3:30
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