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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…

Early audience numbers from Nielsen Media Research show that 11.3 million people watched the final day of impeachment coverage, when former National Security Council official Fiona Hill and diplomat David Holmes testified at the House inquiry. The Thursday number is slight dip from the average audience of 11.4 million…

The impeachment inquiry testimony of Gordon Sondland drew a combined average of 11.4 million viewers Wednesday, a number that is comparable for the previous day’s morning and early afternoon session. The number includes the three major cable news networks and the three broadcast networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, that…

The 5,000th episode of ABC’s The View was the show’s most-watched telecast (3.021 million) in more than six months (since April 26). And something tells me it wasn’t because of the anniversary cake. The Nov. 7 episode featured guests Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle…

Royal documentary Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, which featured the former Suits star opening up about her anxiety over the British tabloid press and motherhood, failed to deliver in the ratings on Sunday. The documentary, which aired on ITV at 9 PM, could only muster 2.8M viewers in the hour slot, being…

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…