ABC's prime-time debate proves a hit
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Democracy proved a prime-time hit on ABC on Saturday, particularly for the Democratic candidates for president.
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ABC so far this new season is in the midst of something it has not experienced in half a decade: a ratings surge.
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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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By Lynn Elber THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  The show was smart and intriguingly spiked with supernatural and sci-fi twists. It featured hot new stars who graced glossy magazine covers -- until the ratings tumbled.
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In the extremely tight ratings race between the two leading evening news broadcasts, ABCâs âWorld News With Charles Gibsonâ last week edged past its rival, NBCâs âNightly News With Brian Williams,â for the first time in eight weeks. Nielsen estimated that the ABC newscast drew 9.8 million viewers, its highest average in nearly a year and slightly more than the 9.6 million who tuned in to NBC. ABCâs slim margin of victory was only modestly higher in the age bracket of adults 25 to 54, a demographic the two networks split evenly during the previous week. The last time ABC finished No. 1 was during the November sweeps period. Last week CBSâs âEvening News With Katie Couricâ remained a distant third (7.13 million).
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The network didn&#39;t mean to offend you. (...Sunday nights on ABC, 9 pm Eastern, 8 o&#39;clock Central.). It understands that what it did was unsuitable for many viewers (This week on a sizzling new Housewives, Edie
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Prepared statements were flying like tickertape Tuesday, in the wake of ABC&#39;s racy introductory skit on Monday Night Football.
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ABC is looking a lot less desperate this season. The typically cellar-dwelling network Sunday won huge audiences for critics' favorite Desperate Housewives, which eclipsed CSI: NY as this season's top-rated premiere.
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By Bill Keveney  ABC suddenly has a strong pulse on Thursday thanks to the medical team at Grey's Anatomy.  TV's top buzz show, transplanted from Sunday to Thursday, attracted 25.4 million viewers, beating last year's No.
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NEW YORK  - Monday's CNN-YouTube debate brought in pretty good numbers, delivering the highest viewership for a debate among adults 18-34 in cable news history.
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"Ugly Betty" delivered  pretty ratings for ABC Thursday night, with sampling of the 8  p.m. comedy-drama boosting it past "Survivor" in its second  half hour.
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The melting snowman, Tennessee rednecks and the novelty of the CNN-YouTube Democratic debate attracted 2.6 million television viewers, a slight drop from the numbers who tuned in for a more traditional exchange last month.
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âThe Moment of Truth,â Foxâs new game show passed its own first test with flying colors, drawing particularly impressive ratings in its debut on Wednesday at 9 p.m.
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ABC won a repeat-laden primetime Wednesday with two hours of its rookie castaway hit "Lost."
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ABC's red-hot "Desperate Housewives" turned positively volcanic on Sunday, delivering its highest ratings to date.
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The Internet doesn't have time zones, and while my colleagues in the blogosphere who happen to be located in the Eastern or Central time zones were watching the debate live on TV, we in the western states were left to either wait three hours, or DIY a Ustream webcast of the debate, which we did. About half way through we figured out how to make the local New Hampshire ABC affiliate webcast work on a Mac, and it was a little easier to understand what was going on. In 2008, sixteen years into the web, there's no excuse for not broadcasting a political event live to the world. If ABC News hasn't got the ability to do it, then ABC News shouldn't be running it. That Facebook lent its name and reputation to this fiasco is amazing. Why didn't they speak up?  BTW, otoh, Charles Gibson was a great moderator and the format was, in every way, fantastic. What a shame we all couldn't experience at the same time.
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Variety - On a night when each of the major networks devoted most of primetime to the first Bush-Kerry presidential debate, CBS reality adventure series "Survivor: Vanuatu" drew the best numbers for an entertainment program Thursday, according to preliminary nationals from Nielsen.