Kevin Costner's 'Yellowstone' sets viewership milestones Kevin Costner can comfortably boast of being television's biggest star right now The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2022
TV audience for 2022 Midterms plunges to 25.4 million Few major upsets made Tuesday's coverage of the results less compelling than in years past. Axios · Nov 10, 2022
CNBC cancels Shepard Smith’s nightly newscast after two years CNBC says it is pulling the plug on Shepard Smith's weeknight general interest news program, saying it wants to focus on the network's core strength of business news The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2022
CNBC pulls the plug on 'The News With Shepard Smith' NEW YORK — CNBC is ending its nightly newscast with Shepard Smith, the former Fox News anchor who moved to the business channel in 2020. Los Angeles Times · Nov 3, 2022
CNBC axes Shepard Smith's nightly newscast after two years CNBC says it is pulling the plug on Shepard Smith's weeknight general interest news program, saying it wants to focus on the network's core strength of business news The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2022
Football, World Series most popular on television Sports ruled the day again in the Nielsen company's list of the most popular programs in prime-time television The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2022
Marquee Sports Network ratings have dropped 56% since its launch. Here’s how the Chicago Cubs’ cable TV home is faring in Year 3 CHICAGO — When the Chicago Cubs launched the Marquee Sports Network in February 2020, it was the culmination of a decade-long quest to create a dedicated 24/7 cable TV platform for the team, which was still soaring in the wake of its first World Series championship in more than a… Chicago Tribune · Oct 29, 2022
Nielsen, Amazon Prime spar over who really watches football If you ask the Nielsen company, 7.8 million people watched last Thursday's football game between New Orleans and Arizona, most of them streaming it on Amazon Prime The Independent UK · Oct 25, 2022
Media spending up 11% in first three quarters Thailand's media spending in the first nine months surged 11% year-on-year to 88.1 billion baht following the country's reopening, with people returning to work and tourism resuming, says data analytics firm Nielsen Thailand. Bangkok Post · Oct 24, 2022
NFL, Amazon Prime Video add a Black Friday game to the 2023 schedule According to Nielsen, Prime Video is averaging 10.8 million viewers through the first five “Thursday Night Football” games this season. Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 18, 2022
Amazon's 'The Rings of Power' is a bona fide hit. Why doesn't it feel like it? In the lead-up to its premiere this summer, "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" might have been best known for its extravagant price tag. Los Angeles Times · Oct 13, 2022
Football, dramas lead Nielsen's weekly top 20 list As is traditional in the fall, NBC's Sunday night football telecast dominated the weekly television rankings, in this case a game between Cincinnati and Baltimore The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2022
Chris Cuomo mocked over poor ratings for his comeback NewsNation show: ‘More people watched SpongeBob’ Cuomo premiered on 3 October with initial ratings ending up at 147,000, according to Nielsen The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2022
Viewers head to Weather Channel for Hurricane Ian coverage The Weather Channel had its biggest audience in five years on Wednesday, when Hurricane Ian made its devastating landfall in western Florida The Independent UK · Oct 5, 2022
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2022 New audiobook platforms are launched to rival Amazon’s Audible Spiracle will feature titles from independent presses, while last month, Spotify also began offering audiobooks to US customers
Tribune News Service · Oct 3, 2022 One America News plots a comeback that includes TV antenna users After being dropped by two major pay-TV distributors this year, One America News is attempting a comeback by leveraging an old technology: the antenna.
The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2022 Prime Video averages 15.3M viewers in its NFL season opener Amazon Prime Video’s first regular-season game as the exclusive home of “Thursday Night Football” averaged 15.3 million viewers across all platforms according to Nielsen and Amazon’s first party measurement
Daily Mirror · Sep 20, 2022 Cristiano Ronaldo named Instagram's most influential footballer as PSG trio all make Top 10 Ronaldo has more than 450 million followers on Instagram, putting the Manchester United superstar well ahead of his bitter rival and Paris Saint-Germain forward Lionel Messi
WEKU · Sep 16, 2022 Latino viewers heavily influence the popularity of streaming shows, a study finds A new study shows that Latino-led content attracted new viewers to streaming platforms and helped make shows and films more popular.
The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2022 Return of football dominates Nielsen television ratings It may not be fall on the calendar yet, but it is in the television ratings: NBC's “Sunday Night Football” is on top
The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2022 Serena Williams' goodbye to U.S. Open a ratings boon to ESPN It could have been just one night, but Serena Williams' exit from tennis turned into a boon for ESPN
Chicago Tribune · Sep 2, 2022 Nina Metz: If streaming is starting to resemble old-school TV with ads and live programming, aren’t we back where we started? Some things never change. Like the struggle to keep your dog from chewing the remote. But these are strange times in Hollywood and change is very much in the air. Here’s a look at some of the latest shifts afoot on the TV side.
Autosport · Sep 2, 2022 MotoGP™ and Motorsport Network reveal key findings from largest ever Global Fan Survey • Nearly 110,000 fans in 179 countries responded to Motorsport Network-hosted Global MotoGP™ Fan Survey, analysed by Nielsen Sports • MotoGP™ fans share an overall favourable opinion of the current state of sport - approve of “competitive,” “exciting,” and “unpredictable” characteristics • Sport growing among female fans internationally • Fabio…
Bangkok Post · Aug 20, 2022 PM defends ad spending by govt Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and government officials on Friday defended spending by the Office of the Prime Minister on advertising, after it was ranked 13th out of 20 businesses and organisations for the highest ad spending in the country according to a recent poll by the US-based research firm Nielsen.
The Independent UK · Aug 18, 2022 More people watch streaming services than traditional networks for the first month ever ‘It was inevitable,’ a professor of television studies said