In its first week this season sharing the singing stage with NBC’s “The Voice,” “American Idol,” Fox’s perennial ratings giant, fell to its lowest-rated performances two nights in a row.
NBC has yet to learn how to handle successions gracefully, Barbara Walters will retire in 2014, and Christopher Cuomo and Kate Bolduan will host a new CNN morning show.
“The Voice” returned on Monday and soared back to the top of the ratings with a 4.7 rating among the target audience of viewers between the age of 18 and 49, and 13.4 million viewers. “Revolution” was also a winner at 10 p.m., averaging a 2.7 rating in the 18-49 group with about 7.2 million viewers.
Jay Leno is still the ratings king of late-night television, but his expected replacement, Jimmy Fallon, has Internet skills and cross-generational appeal.
A successful new daytime syndicated TV talk show, “Steve Harvey,” has helped cement Mr. Harvey’s status as one of the foremost entertainers in America.
Three executives close to the situation said that NBC’s entertainment chief had taken offense to jokes that Jay Leno made last month about NBC’s ratings struggles.
NBC’s announced it will move “Smash” to Saturday nights to play out the remainder of its second season.
Cable shows continue to dominate over most network offerings on Sunday nights, and Fox overtakes a flagging NBC for the season.
The companies have made arrangements to avoid placing any ads adjacent to online replays of the sketch in question, but that will not affect any commercials in the television version of “SNL.”
The enormously publicized drama crashed to a new ratings low Tuesday night, hitting a level that only a few weeks ago caused another NBC drama, “Do No Harm,” to be yanked off the air.
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