From NBC Sports Group (full press release): For Tuesday’s primetime coverage, NBC Olympics’ Total Audience Delivery — calculating average minute viewing across broadcast, cable, and digital — averaged a 20.5 household rating with 36.1 million viewers – ranking as the best night of the 2016 Rio Olympics in both metrics to-date. On the downside, the […]
August 10, 2016
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ESPN Sportscaster and Host John Saunders Dead at 61
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John Saunders, the longtime sportscaster and host of ESPN and ABC Sports, died at the age of 61 on Wednesday, Aug. 10 in New York. The cause of his death has not been disclosed. Saunders was born on Feb. 2, 1955, in Ajax, Ontario in Canada. He attended Western Michigan University in the mid 1970’s […]
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TLC Picks-Up ‘My Big Fat Fabulous Life’
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TLC has ordered 14 additional episodes of docuseries “My Big Fat Fabulous Life,” which will begin airing in early 2017. Debuting on Jan. 13, 2015, “My Big Fat Fabulous Life” follows the life of 370-lb. Whitney Way Thore; from breakups with her boyfriend to breakups with her trainer and the friendships that fall in between. […]
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CBS Renews ‘Big Brother’ and ‘Zoo’
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CBS has issued a two season pick-up to summer staple “Big Brother,” which will take it through the summer of 2018. “Big Brother,” which will also air in a separate season on streamer CBS All Access this fall, has consistently finished among the summer’s top-rated series in young demographics. Summer-to-date, all three weekly broadcasts rank […]
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What follows are the fast affiliate results for Tuesday, August 9 broken out by network and by each half-hour: -Total Viewers: NBC: 33.62 million, CBS: 4.28, ABC: 2.52, Fox: 993,000, CW: 931,000 -Adults 18-49: NBC: 9.9 rating/33 share, ABC: 0.7/ 2, CBS: 0.6/ 2, Fox and CW: 0.3/ 1 each ———- 8:00 p.m. ABC – […]
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Must-see political TV
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From Campaign US: Donald Trump has made a lot of noise lately over the Presidential debates going up against NFL games. But maybe it’s the NFL that should be worried. With the odds in this heated Presidential election, at present, shifting in the favor of Hillary Clinton, coverage of this epic clash of personalities – […]
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Over 31-Million Viewers for the First Monday of the 2016 Rio Olympics
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NBC is reporting an 18.1 household rating and 31.5 million viewers for primetime coverage of the 2016 Rio Olympics on Monday, August 8. These results are based on NBC Olympics’ new Total Audience Delivery report – which measures broader Rio Olympics consumption by calculating average minute viewing across broadcast, cable and digital. Comparably, the opening […]
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Fox to Air Alex Rodriguez’s Final Game on August 12
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Fox and Fox Deportes will televise the Major League Baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees from Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY on Friday, August 12, starting at 7 p.m. ET. It is scheduled to be the final game in the career of one of the sport’s all-time gifted sluggers […]
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Loses Three Cast Members
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Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam, who have each been on NBC’s veteran “Saturday Night Live” for six seasons, and Jon Rudnitsky, who joined the show just last season as a featured player, are all exiting. Pharoah, 28, and Killam, 34, are known for their celebrity impersonations: Pharoah for his Barack Obama and Jay-Z, and Killam […]
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 2016 ABC 8:00 p.m. “Fresh off the Boat” (R) 8:30 p.m. “Fresh off the Boat” (R) 9:00 p.m. “Fresh off the Boat” (R) 9:30 p.m. “Fresh off the Boat” (R) 10:00 p.m. “Modern Family” (R) 10:30 p.m. “black-ish” (R) CBS 8:00 p.m. “Big Brother” 9:00 p.m. “Criminal Minds” (R 10:00 p.m. “American […]