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In a much-loved Saturday Night Live skit, Garrett Morris’s take on veteran infielder Chico Escuela once noted that “Baseball been berry, berry good to me.” Fox Sports is saying much the same today, as the return of Major League Baseball has proved to be a ratings bonanza. The sports-starved audience boosted three of…

MSNBC said that Monday’s debut of The ReidOut, Joy Reid’s new nightly 7 PM ET show, averaged 2.6 million total viewers and scored the second-highest rating for a regularly scheduled show on the network for that hour. Reid’s guests included Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Fox…

Fox News Channel drew 7.7 million viewers to coverage of President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa on Saturday, helping it to deliver its highest rated primetime for that evening in the network’s history. The network carried Trump’s speech live in its entirety, while CNN and MSNBC covered excerpts. The Fox News audience…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir again was the most watched show in broadcast and cable last week, as the traditional evening newscasts enjoy a resurgence during the coronavirus crisis. But the network said that the half-hour broadcast also reached a ratings milestone for the season to date, ranking No. 1…

Is your viewership up nearly 100%? You must be streaming. Nielsen’s look at the effect of coronavirus stay-at-home orders on Americans’ consumption of streaming content has produced some eye-popping numbers. From the fourth full week of March in 2019 (starting 3/25) through the fourth full week of March in 2020…

So, what happens now? With the 3 1/2 weeks early, lowest-rated Oscar show in the bag, the movies and those who love them are caught in an unaccustomed February vacuum. Normally, there would be cocktails, canapés and the whispers of publicists looking for last-minute advantage over competitors. But Sunday's Academy…

“Cinema won tonight,” NEON head Tom Quinn said as he escorted his father to his waiting limo in the parking garage of the Soho House, where a long line of partygoers was still waiting well past 11 p.m. just to get inside to the wild and very packed celebration Quinn’s company had planned for its Oscar nominees, Parasit…

An estimated 9.3 million people tuned in to impeachment trial coverage across six networks on Monday, according to Nielsen, and President Donald Trump’s legal team presented its case to the Senate. Impeachment viewership so far has ranged from about 11 million viewers on the first day of the Senate trial, to a low of…

CNN’s coverage of the Democratic presidential debate drew an estimated 7.3 million viewers, according to early numbers from Nielsen Media Research. That’s a slight uptick from the the 6.17 million who watched the debate in December, sponsored by PBS and Politico, and the 6.5 million who watched November’s event…

Ratings for the Rose Bowl Game featuring Oregon vs. Wisconsin on New Year’s Day were down four percent from last year. But the game was still the second most-watched non-semifinals game of the College Football Playoff era. ESPN and ESPN2 aired the Rose Bowl, which had an audience of more than 16.3 million viewers. The…

UPDATED: Norah O’Donnell’s first broadcast of CBS Evening News from her permanent home in D.C. posted its highest audience numbers since its July debut. The broadcast on Monday drew 6.8 million total viewers and 1.4 million viewers among those in the key 25-54 demographic, according to fast national numbers from…

The Buffalo Bills and Dallas Cowboys broadcast on Thursday was the most-watched Thanksgiving Day game on CBS Sports in 27 years, and the most-watched regular season game on any network in three years. The game, which ran from 4:32 PM to 7:48 PM ET, featured a surging young Bills team against a Cowboys franchise…