FOX Turns to Reality TV For Ratings
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With baseball season over for another year, FOX is turning to reality TV in an attempt to keep their ratings up. Starting this week, FOX will air six hours of scripted shows and nine hours of reality shows per week in primetime. The only night that won...
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The Fox News cable channel made a bit of television history by drawing more viewers than any of the Big Three broadcast networks on the opening night of major coverage of the Republican convention, according to figures issued on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Fox rode "American Idol" to another weekly win in viewership and the adults 18-49 demographic and was aided by big numbers for the premiere of "The Moment of Truth."
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NEW YORK  - "Hell's Kitchen" heated a summer Monday night for Fox, leading the network to the win in the adults 18-49 demographic.
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NBC dominated this uneventful second Friday of the Feb. 2008 sweeps, with a first-place finish in households, total viewers and adults 18-49.  Second overall was Fox, followed by CBS, NBC and the CW.  When the top-rated network doesn't even average seven million viewers there is obviously very little to say.
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Baseball's lively League Championship Series kept Fox atop the primetime standings on Monday.
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Fox swept prime-time television  ratings last week, thanks to Sunday's broadcast of the New York  Giants' dramatic victory in Super Bowl XLII, the most-watched  sporting event in U.S. history.
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PageSix - THE early success of   MTV's "Laguna   Beach: The Real O.C." could spur a new kind of reality TV &#x2014; big news for a genre nearing "enough already" levels.
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&quot;So You Think You Can  Dance&quot; led Fox to victory in both key measures in Wednesday&#39;s  primetime ratings race.
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Politically charged drama, comedy, and reality fare is coming to network and cable TV.
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Foxâs combination of âAmerican Idolâ and âThe Moment of Truthâ lifted it far ahead of its rivals in the Wednesday night ratings.
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Fox's broadcast of the  BCS National Championship college football game dominated the  ratings Monday night.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The Fox network has set Nov. 9 for  the premiere of Virgin Records/Virgin Megastore founder Richard  Branson's reality show.
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US TV network Fox's chief executive admits it has relied too heavily on reality shows.
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Tuesday might have been an important night for the presidential primary process, but Fox came away the big winner in the television ratings race, easily outpacing its rivalsâ election coverage. As usual, âAmerican Idolâ led over all, drawing 27.8 million viewers at 8, according to Nielsenâs estimates. At 9, Foxâs âHouseâ earned a similarly dominant 23.2 million viewers. Meanwhile, ABC, the only network to broadcast three full hours of election returns, ranked fourth over all with an average of 5.3 million viewers during prime time. CBS, which broadcast presidential primary results from 9 to 11, finished third (4.7 million). NBCâs election coverage won the 10 oâclock time slot (5.6 million), possibly benefiting from higher ratings leading into the hour. NBCâs âBiggest Loserâ averaged eight million viewers in second place from 8 to 10, behind Fox. NBC also led Monday nightâs ratings, thanks to âAmerican Gladiatorsâ (nine million) followed by âDeal or No Dealâ at 9:30 (13.2 million). Also on Monday, at 10 p.m., ABCâs â20/20â special on the death of Natalee Holloway drew 12.7 million viewers, the largest audience for â20/20â in more than a year.
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For the Fox network, the television season so far has amounted to a limbo contest: how low can they go?
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Fox notched another victory  in the advertiser-friendly adults 18-49 demographic last week,  but CBS won the viewership stakes by just 60,000 people.