Oprah Winfrey will become a special contributor to veteran CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” with her first appearance on the Sunday night broadcast next fall. “There is only one Oprah Winfrey,” said “60 Minutes” executive producer Jeff Fager. “She has achieved excellence in everything she has touched. Her body of work is extraordinary, including thousands of […]
THE ROAD TO SUPER BOWL LI WILL BE TELEVISED The National Football League announced its postseason television schedule on Sunday, January 1. The Playoff Picture is official.#NFLPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/xnmwYZ10Zu — NFL (@NFL) January 2, 2017 Wild Card weekend marks the kickoff to the NFL postseason on Jan. 7-8. ESPN and ABC will simulcast the first game […]
CBS and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced today a new agreement that will keep the annual “Kennedy Center Honors” broadcast on CBS through 2025. The new deal further extends one of the longest broadcast partnerships in television history. The special has been broadcast on CBS each year since its debut […]
During the halftime analysis of the Vikings-Lions game on Thanksgiving (Nov. 24), the CBS NFL studio crew also makes note of the length of time of Aretha Franklin’s performance of the Star-Spangled Banner at the start of the game. Of course, Franklin sang her version much longer than a usual National Anthem performance. Here was […]
[socialpoll id=”2399707″] CNN took top-rated honors in primetime for the Presidential Election coverage on Tuesday, with 13.26 million viewers, 6.65 million adults 18-49 and 6.66 million adults 25-54. Second overall among all coverage was Fox News at 12.11 million viewers, while NBC was the most-watched among the Big 3 broadcast networks at 11.15 million. The […]
What follows are the fast affiliate results for Tuesday, November 8 broken out by network and by each half-hour. -Total Viewers: NBC: 11.97 million, ABC: 9.68, CBS: 8.80, Fox: 4.54, CW: 991,000 -Adults 18-49: NBC: 4.4 rating/11 share, ABC: 3.0/ 7, CBS: 2.6/ 6, Fox: 1.6/ 4, CW: 0.3/ 1 ———- Note: Results for any […]
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016 Household Rating/Share NBC: 7.0/10, ABC: 6.1/ 9, CBS: 4.8/ 7, Fox: 3.0/ 4, CW: 0.6/ 1 Note: The year-to-year overnight comparisons are excluded due to the live Election coverage. —– -Ratings Breakdown: It was all about the Presidential Election on the Big 4 networks, of course. NBC led the live coverage, […]
An estimated 71.6 million people watched the final debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on TV on Wednesday based on 12 channels that aired the debate, which was 12.8 million below the record 84.4 million for the first debate on Monday, Sept. 26 but still the most-watched historically for any third debate. The 71.6 […]
CBS has given a straight-to-series order for 13 episodes of “Salvation,” a new one-hour event series from Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout and CBS Television Studios slated for next summer. The serialized drama will be broadcast during summer 2017. Described as a suspense thriller, “Salvation” centers on an MIT grad student and a tech superstar who […]
