Late Show host Stephen Colbert will host his CBS late-night program live from the Republican and Democrat National Conventions in July in what could be an attempt to extricate the program from its long-running ratings slump.
While CBS CEO Les Moonves is not sold on presidential candidate Donald Trump making America great again, he gloated on Monday about how beneficial the GOP frontrunner’s candidacy has been for his company’s bottom line.
The Rev. Al Sharpton took a victory lap Monday after it was announced ratings for the 88th Academy Awards hit an 8-year low.
The ratings for Comedy Central’s “Colbert Report” were never all that great to begin with. Nonetheless, the ratings for Colbert’s replacement, Larry Wilmore, are a full 55% lower. While the left-wing Colbert struggles for his own ratings as David Letterman’s
The most recent debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders scared up only 4.5 million viewers on MSNBC. This weekend’s fiery Republican presidential debate in South Carolina pulled in more than three times as many viewers, with 13.5 million viewers.
Likely due to errant play and the defensive slugfest nature of Super Bowl 50, including fumbles and interceptions, the game’s audience failed to surpass the ratings of the last two Super Bowls.
The first debate with only Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (Martin O’Malley suspended his campaign after getting wiped out in Iowa) was a ratings bust. With just a 3.3 rating, Thursday night’s MSNBC debate was not only the lowest of
The football amateurs competed with amateur night. The broadcasting pros at ESPN lost.
The CNN Republican presidential debate on December 15 was the third most-watched primary debate ever and was the highest-rated program of the week, attracting a larger audience than Sunday Night Football.
Jon Stewart picked the right time to Golden Parachute out of the business of licking Obama’s boots while aiming comedic-snark at anyone who dares question The Socialism. According to the most recent numbers, that once-lucrative business is as dead as
Now that Steven Colbert has sunk to a humiliating 4th place in the ratings, permit me a rare told you so. Back when the move was announced, it made no sense to me. Steven Colbert had no audience at Comedy
The left-wing ESPN has lost a whopping 7 million subscribers in just two years. The MSNBC of Sports (hat tip), once available in 99 million homes, is available now in only 92 million homes. That is still a lot of
As Breitbart News has been reporting throughout, CNN’s “New Day” has been in a serious ratings downturn for a number of months now. This month, in October, the left-wing morning show hit a notable low: After 15 months of beating
In its monthly ratings report, leftwing cable news network CNN is juicing its stats to tout a huge increase in its primetime viewership, when the truth is that in the 25-54 demo, when compared to October of last year, per
During what will almost certainly be a change election year, the ratings from CNN’s Tuesday night debate show that the 2016 energy, passion and interest resides primarily on the Republican side. A total of just 15.3 million viewers tuned into
Trevor Noah’s “Daily Show” ratings are much more amusing than Trevor Noah. Jon Stewart never had very good ratings. With fewer than 1% of America very tuning in, because they could use him as a bludgeon against the political right,
Sunday night’s ratings are in, and while football is still king, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump helped CBS to take second place.
All of the GOP-bashing at Sunday night’s Emmys was apparently unable to save the awards show from drawing its smallest number of viewers on record. Fox’s broadcast of the television awards show drew 11.9 million viewers, down a whopping four million
As the first season of E! network’s I Am Cait reality television show came to an end last weekend, many in the transgender community have blasted both the show and its star, Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner, for failing to represent the struggles that ordinary trans people face on a daily basis.
Regardless of how well you think Republican frontrunner Donald Trump performed at Wednesday night’s CNN debate, there is no question he is generating unprecedented interest and excitement. Last night CNN earned its highest ratings ever. I could make a joke
Miley Cyrus’ bare chest and repeated reminders that she enjoys smoking marijuana couldn’t help MTV shake off disappointing viewer totals for its Sunday night broadcast of the Video Music Awards.
After four failed years, Al Sharpton’s “PoliticsNation,” a ratings and civic disaster in every respect, has been canceled as a weeknight primetime MSNBC program. Sharpton’s final show will air September 4. A month later, October 4, the show will reemerge
Thursday night’s GOP debates were a ratings juggernaut for the Fox News Channel, leaving liberal darling Jon Stewart’s last Daily Show appearance in the dust.
Everyone expected solid, even record ratings for last night’s debate. No one, however, could have predicted just how big the number would end up being. It wasn’t just a blow-out, the first Republican primary debate of the 2016 season earned
Former American Idol contestant Ryan Cassata, who identifies as a transgender man, is accusing the show of attempting to exploit transgender people for ratings in the wake of Bruce Jenner’s gender transition.
Ratings for the new reality TV series about Bruce Jenner’s life as a transgender woman have plummeted in the show’s second week.
In a recent interview, anti-violence video game crusader Jack Thompson addressed censorship, how youth respond differently to video game violence than adults, and how he varies from Feminist Frequency critic Anita Sarkeesian.
TVNewser reports that for the week of July 13, during the all-important primetime hours, CNN again lost to MSNBC. In all of cable, CNN primetime viewership collapsed to 27th place while MSNBC landed 5 spots higher in 22nd place. Fox
CNN’s growing reputation as a dishonest, hard-left cable news network has come home to roost. Although the left-wing cable news network hyped the hell out of scoring the first national interview with Democrat presidential contender Hillary Clinton, Brianna Keilar’s cowardly,
The television ratings of the 2015 NBA Finals skyrocketed past every other series played since the Michael Jordan-era.
Other than the political benefits for central planning-Democrats that come from civil unrest in America’s inner-cities, another reason CNN president Jeff Zucker has turned his cable news network into a relentless hate machine is simple greed — the power and
Ronan Farrow caught a lot of grief during his anchor run at MSNBC, and was blamed time and again for the left-wing network’s afternoon ratings collapse. After a little more than a year on the air, Farrow and Joy Reid
Sunday night’s Tony Awards marked the lowest-rated broadcast ever for Broadway’s big night.
Despite an insanely busy news month (Baltimore riots, Amtrak crash) that saw double digit ratings increases at CNN and Fox News, MSNBC collapsed a full -14% over this same time last year in both total and demo (25-54 years of
The loss of “The Tonight Show” to Jay Leno in 1992 came not only to define David Letterman the man but also the slow-motion collapse of a career defined by Letterman’s anger and bitterness over the loss. Leno not only won Carson’s seat,
CNN’s Chris Cuomo united Left and Right Wednesday. For about an hour, the entire Internet — from Breitbart News to Salon, from the Daily Caller to Glenn Greenwald — seemed to rise up in unison to point and laugh at
A new study shows that, to no real benefit, CNN chief Jeff Zucker has spent a ton of money on new programming, and every bit of whatever remaining reputation CNN had as an objective news outlet, to revamp the failing
With the news that the “NBC Nightly News” has now lost to ABC’s “World News Tonight” for four weeks in a row, the fall of NBC News is nearly complete. The “Nightly News” now joins the once-mighty franchises of “Meet
By bringing Anthony Weiner on as a “Reliable Sources” commentator Sunday, CNN’s left-wing media reporter Brian Stelter seemed to want to pull off a two-fer. First off, it is no secret that Stelter is struggling in the ratings — so
Like the left-wing network did in Ferguson, CNN is pulling out all the stops to bring mob violence to Baltimore with its thoughtless, race-baiting, hysterical, exploitive coverage of Freddie Gray, a young man who died a week after his arrest.
