Overextended, Music TV Shows Fade

The once wildly popular live music and talent contests on television seem to have run their course, as other genres have in the past.



Yankees’ Attendance and Ratings Rebound, but the Mets’ Are Mixed

Tickets for the Yankees’ first 13 home games were up nearly 10 percent from last year, and ratings on YES were up 38 percent. Mets’ ticket sales were up, too, but their TV ratings were down.

Ratings Slip at MSNBC as Jet Coverage Lifts CNN

The decline in ratings for MSNBC has been tied to gains for CNN because of its extensive coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner.

Delayed Viewing Plumps Up ‘Mad Men’ Audience

Three days of recorded viewing indicated that the show added close to 75 percent more viewers in some categories.

ABC’s Nightly News Scores a Rare Ratings Win Over NBC’s

“World News With Diane Sawyer” eked out a 12,000-viewer lead among viewers advertisers most value — the first such ratings victory since last July.



Steep Drop in Ratings as ‘Mad Men’ Begins Its Final Season

The AMC drama averaged just 2.3 million viewers at 10 p.m., down from 3.4 million from the premiere a year ago.

Advertising: NBC Expects to Strike Gold in a Late-Night Renaissance Led by Fallon

Executives suggested they would seek healthy increases in advertising rates when the upfront market for the 2014-15 season begins.



‘How I Met Your Mother’ Gets Its Best Ratings for Finale

After nine years, the CBS comedy tried to wrap up its many loose ends Monday night. The audience of 12.9 million was the show’s largest.

    



‘Duck Dynasty’ Ends Season With a Sharp Decline in Viewership

The A&E reality series drew six million viewers for its finale on Wednesday, down from 8.4 million for the finale in the fall cycle of the show.

    



Once a Hit, Its Ratings Make ‘Idol’ An Also-Ran

On Thursday night, the singing competition sank below the 2.0 ratings barrier, something seemingly incomprehensible even two years ago.

    



‘Good Morning America’ Hits Ratings Milestone

Spillover from ABC’s Oscar coverage led the show to its biggest weekly audience average since Nielsen began keeping electronic ratings records.

    



Event-Free, Sunday Night Still Pulls In Big Ratings

Even without an awards show or other special event, Sunday night pulled in impressive television audiences, led by the premieres of “Resurrection” and “Cosmos” and the season finale of “True Detective.”

    

‘Tonight’ Starts Well, on YouTube and on TV

The new “Tonight” show hosted by Jimmy Fallon has gathered a big secondary audience of online viewers in addition to its impressive television ratings.

    



Olympics Draws 26 Million Viewers, Even as Its TV Competitors Also Thrive

A Beatles anniversary show on CBS drew 14 million, nearly seven million watched “Downton Abbey” on PBS and “Walking Dead” locked up younger viewers.

    



Leno’s Farewell Drew More Than 14 Million Viewers

The end of his 22-year run at the “Tonight” show host brought in the largest audience since May 14, 1998, the night of the finale to “Seinfeld.”

    



Adult Swim, No. 1 With Younger Adults, Is Expanding

Programming will soon begin at 8 p.m. to meet advertisers’ demands for more airtime on the cable network, which leads in the ratings for some coveted categories.

    



Seahawks-Broncos Super Bowl TV Ratings Top 111 Million

With 111.5 million viewers, Fox’s Super Bowl audience was the largest in American television history.

    



The Media Equation: Super Bowl Underscores the Big Business of Must-See, Live TV

At a time of atomization and endless special-interest hobbit holes, big live television events like the Super Bowl fulfill our need for something, anything, in common.

    



Address by Obama Drew Fewest Viewers Since 2000

The State of the Union speech was seen by 33.3 million viewers, a slight dip from last year’s 33.5 million, but far off President Obama’s 2009 speech.

    



After Controversy, ‘Duck Dynasty’ Draws a Smaller Audience

An audience of 6.6 million is still huge, but is less than what the show was getting before comments by the show’s patriarch, which were criticized as homophobic.