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For the first time in 16 years, NBC will win the total-viewer race in the 52-week season to become the country’s most watched network, while also winning the 18-49 demo crown for a fifth consecutive season. Last year, minus Olympics and Super Bowl, NBC took the September-to-September demo ratings crown for a fourth…

Along with the news of its game-changing bid for Sky, Comcast’s first-quarter results beat estimates with strength across divisions, highlighted by the addition of nearly 400,000 broadband subscribers and broadcast TV revenue booming 58%. Total revenue revenue increased nearly 11% to $22.79 billion, edging the…

EXCLUSIVE: Abrams Artists Agency has signed Matt Hamilton, the mustachioed member of Team USA’s gold medal-winning men’s curling team at last month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea. He became NBC’s poster child of sorts amid the Americans’ surprising run through the field — which included victories over Canada and…

Longtime Fox News executive John Moody, whose pre-Winter Olympics opinion column last month suggested the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to change the Olympics motto “from 'Faster, Higher, Stronger' to 'Darker, Gayer, Different'”, has left the company. FNC said today in a statement that Moody, the EVP and Executive…

The broadcast premiere of the feature-length documentary The Nagano Tapes tonight on NBC Sports Network at 11:30 PM ET (after the Red Wings-Blues game) kicks off a five-film deal for Mandalay Sports Media and Frank Marshall’s Five Ring Films for The Olympic Channel. The debut docu, about the men’s hockey tournament at…

There were a number of goodbyes uttered Sunday night as the XXIII Winter Games came to an end, as did the life of Carl Grimes on The Walking Dead. However, unlike the near lows of NBC's Closing Ceremony in PyeongChang, the AMC zombie apocalypse series based on Robert Kirkman's comics has some celebrating to do. With a…

A mini-crime wave will hit the small screen with the February 26 debut of both NBC's Good Girls and AMC's McMafia. To avoid you getting caught behind programming bars, let me tell you now: The former is a score, while the latter is a heist of your time. Airing at 10 PM, Good Girls, a 10-episode drama starring…

UPDATED, 2:11 PM: The athletes and delegations are heading home from the XXIII Winter Olympics and the flame from PyeongChang has been passed on to Beijing 2022, and it probably wasn't a moment too soon for NBC. The 19.8 million on average that watched the Games on average each night on NBC, NBCSN and digital…

The well-wired Asian nation's culture and technology was heavily on patriotic display tonight in NBC's coverage of the Closing Ceremony of the XXIII Winter Games. However, it was the music of South Korea that really owned the beat and heart of the tape-delayed event and almost turned the Olympics into the best Grammys…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's The Walking Dead midseason return …and more. "I'll say we're working on different sorts of Walking Dead goodness coming up and we'll be telling you about it as it comes together," teased a tight-lipped showrunner Scott M. Gimple of his new role as Chief Content…

In the end, the final day of primetime competition for the XXIII Winter Olympics was both a winner and loser to the XXII Winter Olympics of just over four years ago. On its last Saturday, the often tractionless PyeongChang games hit a new low, dipping 5% from the previous rock bottom of February 23 with 8.7/16 metered…

The Simpsons again proves itself a pop culture oracle. Eight years ago, the animated sitcom aired an episode where the USA defeated Sweden in curling at the Olympics for the gold medal. And on Friday, Team USA beat — you guessed it — Team Sweden in Pyeongchang for the gold medal in curling. In the episode titled “Boy…