A group of TV executives is scrambling to solve the growing problem of crashing ratings for the National Football League by cutting games to end the perceived “over-saturation” of football on TV.
Despite the NFL’s struggles on Sunday’s and Thursday’s, the Week 7 edition of Monday Night Football between the Eagles and the Redskins, saw a ratings bump.
Just in case you were thinking that the NFL’s speedy descent ratings oblivion would soon bottom-out and come to an end, don’t worry yourself, it’s not.
The news for the National Football League’s TV ratings continues to taint the 2017 season with a new report finding that the first six games of the year have fallen 7.5 percent over last year’s total viewership.
Don Meredith helped make Monday Night Football famous, by singing ‘Turn out the lights, the party’s over” at the end of games. It might be time to sing that same song again for Monday Night Football, though, for an entirely different reason.
As we predicted after the Jane Fonda debacle two weeks ago, celebrities are blacklisting Megyn Kelly’s third hour of Today.
With the NFL’s Week 4 more or less in the rearview mirror, a review of TV ratings shows a massive loss of viewers among all ethnicities across this great nation. The loss shows that nearly every sector of the country is turning against the National Football League with whites, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, men, and women are all finding other things to do with their time.
Not only did the Packers’ weak attempt to get the entire stadium to interlock arms during the anthem, flop. The ratings for Thursday Night Football crashed again, as more Americans decided they’d rather not be told how their ruining the world by a bunch of people who majored in checkers.
The NFL does not have only a TV ratings problem, it is also having a stadium attendance issue led by the California teams which appear to be suffering falling attendance only three games into the season.
Megyn Kelly says she left Fox News Channel to bring more joy to her life. NBC hopes that starting Monday, she can spread some to the network and its viewers.
If NFL fans continue to turn away from football, the TV networks could lose as much as $200 million in earnings, according to a new report.
The NFL has suffered new lows for the second week on CBS with a double-digit fall over last year’s ratings.
President Donald Trump mocked the low-rated Emmy Awards broadcast, where host Stephen Colbert and multiple television celebrities repeatedly mocked and condemned the president.
Adjustments might take a little of the sting out of the news that Sunday night’s Emmy telecast was a ratings catastrophe, but any adjustment will only make the nightmare a little less nightmarish. Instead of being the lowest-rated Emmys in its 69-year history, Sunday night’s telecast might be able to squeak into the second-lowest ever.
Last week we brought you word that ESPN’s subscriber loss had continued, while rival FS1 had seen significant gains. So, perhaps it should come as no shock to learn, that ESPN is hemorrhaging money as well as subscribers.
TV ratings for Wednesday are in, and the numbers show that ESPN’s ESPY Awards broadcast fell for the second year in a row.
CNN, rocked by a fake news scandal and accusations of blackmail, is taking a significant hit in its primetime ratings, losing not only to Fox News and MSNBC, but also to FX, TLC, The Discovery Channel — and even children’s TV network Nick-at-Nite.
Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show on NBC earned a much-needed win over its rival Stephen Colbert-fronted CBS Late Show by pulling out a slim victory in total viewership last week for the first time since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.
NBC’s Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly failed to see a major bump in the ratings Sunday despite the anchor’s much-hyped interview with InfoWars founder and radio host Alex Jones, falling again to a rerun of CBS’ long-running magazine show 60 Minutes.
Megyn Kelly’s new NBC newsmagazine program premiered to modest ratings Sunday night, as it came in third place in total viewership in primetime behind Game 2 of the NBA Finals and a rerun of CBS’s 60 Minutes, though it did top the long-running CBS news show in the key demographic.
Fox News slipped to third place in the primetime demo for the first time in 17 years last week as competitors CNN and MSNBC enjoyed a surge in viewership thanks to a chaotic news week for President Donald Trump’s administration.
A storm over a crude remark Stephen Colbert made about President Donald Trump didn’t hurt the late-night host in the ratings – to the contrary.
Fox News led all of its cable news competitors in the ratings Monday night as Tucker Carlson debuted to strong viewership numbers in his first night in the 8 p.m. time slot formerly commanded by ousted anchor Bill O’Reilly.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is adding an “F-Rating” for films that feature a female director, a female writer, sees “significant women on screen in their own right,” or passes the Bechdel test.
Ratings for the 89th annual Academy Awards slid for a second consecutive year as a slew of wins for much-beloved La La Land, a shock Best Picture win for Moonlight and a game host in Jimmy Kimmel couldn’t move the needle this year.
President Donald Trump continued his war on CNN during a press conference at the White House on Thursday.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s debut as the new boss of NBC’s New Celebrity Apprentice drew soft ratings Monday night without its longtime host and current President-elect Donald Trump.
Megyn Kelly of the Fox News Channel has emerged as that network’s weak link as Fox has fallen behind CNN in the ratings for a full month for the first time since 2001.
The fall television season is in for a rocky start as the five broadcast TV networks have all seen double-digit percentage ratings drops in the key adult demo, according to a report.
Colin Kaepernick confesses that he doesn’t know a lot about how television ratings work. Given that Kaepernick thinks nothing amiss about wearing a Fidel Castro shirt to a press conference, while lamenting oppression and injustice, one could reasonably surmise that Kaepernick doesn’t understand many things.
For the third consecutive week, ratings for the National Football League (NFL) have plummeted, as players continue anti-American protests during the playing of the national anthem. This week’s drop-off also coincided with the Monday broadcast of the first presidential debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.
Monday night’s first presidential debate between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump was the most-watched political debate in history, according to early ratings figures.
Fox News finished in first place for the fifth consecutive week, securing its place as the number one news network on cable, beating out CNN and MSNBC combined in both the number of total viewers and primetime viewers.
The NFL sees its ratings going down faster than Colin Kaepernick after hearing “O say can you see.”
Initial ratings are in for Sunday night’s 68th annual Emmy Awards, and they’re as bleak as most of the winners’ jokes about Donald Trump during the broadcast.
I Am Cait, the reality television series about former gold-medal Olympian Bruce Jenner’s transition into Caitlyn Jenner, will not return for a third season, Jenner revealed on social media Tuesday.
According to Nielsen television ratings, just under 28 million viewers tuned in for Clinton’s speech, while 30 million viewers tuned in for Trump’s speech.
Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention drew more viewers overall than Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, according to final ratings numbers released Friday.
A net total of 14.8 million viewers of Donald Trump’s convention speech are more likely to vote for him, based on a combination of the just-released TV ratings and the viewer poll that CNN tried to bury.
Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart is set to join The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during its live coverage of the Republican National Convention this week in what could be part of a push to boost the CBS late-night program’s disastrous ratings.
