What is the most-watched scripted series in America in all of broadcast TV these days? No, not NCIS, or FBI, or Chicago Fire. According to data released Tuesday, April 16 by CBS, it is Tracker, the rookie series about lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw played by Justin Hartley. Shaw roams America helping cops and private citizens
The late great NBC programming boss, Brandon Tartikoff, once called TV ratings “the box score of the ‘90s.” That was back when shows such as Cheers, Frasier and Friends competed to see who was the most “Must See” of the week. Those were the B.S. years – Before Streaming. Viewers haven’t been stuck with broadcast
The 2024 Juno Awards drew an average audience of 672,000 viewers ages two and up in live, overnight viewers Sunday night on CBC. That number includes data coupled with the live and encore broadcast that airs in Pacific and Mountain time zones. That has the 53rd annual Canadian music industry salute climbing 36 per cent
Here is the naked truth about Sunday night’s 96th Annual Academy Awards: ratings were up. Bell Media credited native son Ryan Gosling’s “big Canadian Kenergy” for boosting CTV’s coverage of the Oscars to an average audience of 3.5 million viewers. That makes it the most-watched English entertainment broadcast of the year according to Numeris, with
In an ever-fragmenting marketplace, where streaming has surpassed broadcast, it is a rare event when a Canadian series launches to more than a million viewers. Kudos, therefore, to Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent, which opened big last Thursday. The latest, north-of-the-border edition of the hit procedural franchise drew 1,110,000 overnight viewers ages 2+ on
The big winner Sunday with their coverge of Super Bowl LVIII was CBS Sports. Nielsen data and Adobe Analytics report that the Kansas City Chiefs’ overtime victory over San Francisco 49ers drew 123.4 million average viewers across all platforms (CBS Television, Paramount+, Nickelodeon, Univision and digital properties such as NFL+). That makes it the most-watched
As Douglas Pucci reported Tuesday on The Programming Insider, hardly anybody watched Fox’s broadcast of the 75th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Part of the tune out could be blamed on confusion. The Emmys usually air in September at the start of the TV season. It was pushed back four months due to the actors’ strike,
Forget, for a moment, that many of us, if we’re watching broadcast at all so far this fall, have been binge-ing baseball, football or hockey. Set aside the fact that non-sports fans are finding their primetime fix on Netflix, Disney+, AppleTV+, Prime Video or Paramount+. Disregard the utter chaos from the strikes that has left