People seemed pretty darn pleased with the new CBC National News at Tuesday’s Winter Launch but have they looked at the numbers? Monday’s news score: CTV National News at 11 1,253,000, Global National at 5:30 1,114,000, CBC National at 10 479,000, 10:25 449,000.Still, don’t look for CBC to move the newscast out of that hopeless
The CBC has been getting a lot of practice at hosting press launches. There was one in September, another last month for the new News, and Tuesday the new programs for January and beyond were unveiled.Everybody was basking in the glow of Battle of the Blades and Dragon’s Den, two reality show hits that cracked
It was another winning weekend for Canadian television. CBC surely missed that automatic 1.8 million on this first Sunday after Battle of the Blades, although they did trick 955,000 into watching figure skating (with just 234,000 in the 25-54-year-old demo). Earlier, at 5, 805,000 tuned in for the CBC Disney movie The Princess Diaries II,
So Oprah is adios. In case you missed it Friday: View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video.The other side of this story: Oprah the TV icon may still be a king maker when it comes to presidents and she can definitely still sell a lot of books and magazines but Oprah the TV show has been
Did you know? Celebrate with one of these. (Kudos to TV know-it-all David Kines for the social networking heads up.)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.–They don’t call it Tinseltown for nuthin’.Shop owners in Beverly Hills wasted no time in getting their Christmas decorations up this year—a full week before U.S. Thanksgiving. Giant fake trees covered in bright red and gold decorations stood tall in the swank storefronts in the Rodeo Drive neighbourhood.The whole burb was done up
BEVERLY HILLS, CA–Since TV Feeds My Family, TV’s that look like apples have to be a good thing, right?Spotted these nifty little TV screens at this shop called Hannspree (420 N. Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills). The display from the street is a knockout: these colourful leather and plastic apples TV sets are stacked all
Ice Pilots NWT took off Wednesday night, soaring to 459,000 History Television viewers according to BBM Canada overnight estimates. That’s gotta be History’s strongest domestic series launch ever. Buffalo Airways, we salute you!The northern reality series debut ranked 25th for the night in Canada, beating out big name American imports like Modern Family (434,000) and