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Jennifer Salke, Vernon Sanders and Albert Cheng, the troika leading Amazon Prime Video’s streaming operation, all hail from broadcast television. (Salke and Sanders recently worked at NBC and Cheng at ABC.) Ratings data, in their longtime former world, is the coin of the realm. But when they arrived at Amazon, they…

The Game of Thrones finale scored 3.8M viewers for Sky Atlantic in the UK – making it the second largest overnight audience for a Sky drama ever. It was beaten by its own – ironic for the HBO series – with episode four of the final season securing 3.94M viewers, helped by the fact that it fell on a May bank holiday…

NBC Sports' Saturday coverage of the controversial 145th Kentucky Derby on NBC, followed immediately by the primetime Columbus Blue Jackets-Boston Bruins Stanley Cup Playoff Game 5, delivered multiple overnight ratings milestones, according to data provided by Nielsen. At the Kentucky Derby, heavy favorite…

Channel 4 has scored a hit with Leaving Neverland as the controversial Michael Jackson documentary was watched by 2.1M viewers. The which was directed by The Paedophile Hunter director Dan Reed, peaked with 2.4M viewers and won the slot for 16-34 viewers with a 20.5% share. This was above the numbers posted by HBO…

With the task of measuring TV viewing growing ever more complex, CBS is actively considering cutting ties with Nielsen as the companies negotiate a renewal of their long-term contract. The current deal, worth about $100 million, is set to expire on December 31. Sources familiar with the CBS perspective said the…

David Poltrack, a lion of the television research business whose career at CBS has spanned nearly 50 years, has announced his retirement as Chief Research Officer and President of CBS Vision. The exit planned for June 30, 2019, has been in the offing for years, the company stressed. But it is just the latest step in a…

UPDATE, 3:55 PM: Game 2 of the 2018 World Series is about to start very soon but the final numbers of last night's Boston Red Sox's winning Game 1 certainly show some room for improvement, at least over the past few years. Scoring a 3.7/17 rating among adults 18-49 and 13.8 million viewers, the almost four hour game…

President Donald Trump today returned to his NFL obsession by tweet-blaming the opening game ratings drop on player protests, but his former staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman wasn’t buying it: In an interview on MSNBC, the ex-Apprentice contestant said of her old boss’ gripe, “It’s not about the anthem, it’s about…

ESPN today kicks off what it is calling “first ball to last ball” coverage of the 50th U.S. Open and the 41st edition held in the major tennis tournament’s Queens home, which just wrapped up five years of major renovations. The Disney-owned network hopes that the $600 million in enhancements to the Billie Jean King…

Six seasons in, and Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black continues to be a steady performer for the streaming service, according to new data from Nielsen’s SVOD Content Ratings report. (See the full report below.) The first episode of the latest season, which premiered July 27, drew more than 5.3 million U.S. viewers…

NBC’s Dateline scored a 0.6/3 in adults 18-49 in Friday night primetime, making it the demographically favored broadcast of the night, while a CBS re-run of Blue Bloods topped the total audience with 4.27 million viewers. Overall, NBC and ABC tied for the night in the network races for ratings/share at 0.5/3, while…

It’s summertime, which means outdoor activities, vacations, and other seasonal lures typically make for a quiet night in ratings. Friday saw CBS score in the total viewers race, with a 9 PM re-run of Hawaii Five-O luring 3.57 million total viewers (0.4/2 rating share among adults 18-49), followed by Blue Bloods…