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History Channel's Ice Road Truckers hauls in the numbers
The History Channel series premiere of Ice Road Truckers, which debuted Sunday night at 10pm, hauled in a record number of viewers, making it the ...Nielsen says A2/M2 on track
Marking the one year anniversary of its Anytime Anywhere Media Measurement initiative (A2/M2), Nielsen has sent clients a progress report claiming success in its effort ..."Judge Judy" is #1
No, she didn't beat "Wheel of Fortune," but she did tie the syndicated ratings juggernaut in the latest week's ratings from the Syndicated Network Television ...Univision celebrates two in a row
18-34 is the target demo for Univision and the network is celebrating two weeks in a row where it was #2 in the demo, beaten ...A change, for a change
A new entry made it into the top 10 list in the latest week's syndicated TV ratings, as supplied by the Syndicated Network Television Association ...Summertime, but the ratings continue
The 2006-2007 TV ratings season is over, but Nielsen is still keeping score. Fox won the week in the 18-49 demo and CBS in Households, ...TVB touts 99% sweep for broadcast TV
Now that the 2006-2007 television season has wrapped up, the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB) has crunched the numbers from Nielsen Media Research and declared ...Katie's balloon just keeps deflating
Ratings for "The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric" have gone down again, last week hitting the lowest point for the Eye network's evening newscast ...Idol finale goes out on top
The weekly ratings numbers were delayed by the Memorial Day holiday, but you already know that Fox won the official TV season in 18-49 and ...CW declares success with first year's ratings
Having completed its first television season, the new CW network says it improved in its key demos over the former WB and UPN networks. In ...Sports scores 4 of 5 for cable
Basketball playoffs, baseball and the pseudo-sport pro wrestling gave cable/satellite networks four show in the top 100, Adults 18-49, for the most recent week, with ...Dancing outdraws Idol
ABC is crowing over the finale of "Dancing With the Stars" on Tuesday, which topped Fox's "American Idol" in viewers on the same night for ...King ties King again
The top 10 in syndicated television expanded to 11 again as the two "The King of Queens" syndication packages tied once again for 10th place. ...Another week, another Idol victory
What's unique this week, though, is that while "American Idol" on Fox was the highest rated show of the week, ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" snuck into ...Log in
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As always, John Gorman tells it like it is, whether we want to hear it or not. How sadly ironic that radio's success has been ...
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As a 2-book Condensed Market that doesn't even get trends from Arbitron, one can foresee some real struggles with some particularly aggressive agencies. Since ...

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