One by one, as streaming services grow in popularity, old standbys of the TV landscape are falling by the wayside.The number of soap operas, a decades-old linchpin of daytime television, […]
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Back to news homeCNN’s Prime-Time Experiment Is Off to a Slow Start
CNN’s new chairman, Chris Licht, debuted a novel experiment last month to revive his network’s flagging prime-time ratings, betting that viewers would tune in for a mix of exclusive interviews […]
The New Prime Time for TV News: Afternoons
There’s a new prime time in TV news: the afternoons.The biggest draw on Fox News is not Tucker Carlson or Sean Hannity; it’s “The Five,” the 5 p.m. chat show […]
‘Night Court’ Is Back, and America Is Tuning In
In recent years, network executives have rebooted and revived decades-old TV series at will, all in the hope of finding a born-again hit.Classic series like “Magnum P.I.,” “Murphy Brown,” “The […]
Crime and Police TV Shows Like ‘Criminal Minds’ Are Big Streaming Hits
Just a few years ago, it looked as though shows in which a group of characters confront and neatly resolve a crime or a court case in a single episode, […]
Nielsen Introduces New Ratings for Streaming Services
Rich Greenfield, a media analyst at LightShed Partners, said Netflix was signaling its approval of The Gauge because the new metric shows that the platform, along with YouTube, is the […]
Newsmax, Once a Right-Wing Also-Ran, Is Rising, and Trump Approves
Flanked by aides in the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Trump dialed up a friend in the news media with a message: Keep up the good work. “He said that […]
Biden Election Call Boosts Cable TV Network Ratings
At 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Americans all over the country began flicking on their TVs. Moments after CNN and most of the major television networks declared that Joseph R. Biden […]