"Rudolph the Red" Knows Ratings
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CBS'   40-year-old animated special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (15th   place, 14.9 million viewers) was the most watched Yuletide yarn of the   TV week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research.
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BBC tops the Christmas Day ratings, with EastEnders and the Vicar of Dibley leading the way.
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Disney&#39;s ABC and ESPN outlets will likely grab big ratings with a Detroit-Indiana/Miami-Los Angeles Lakers NBA doubleheader Christmas Day, which says something about what can sell sports.
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CBS won Christmas week  in total viewers, while "NBC Sunday Night Football" was the top  program during the period.
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Don't focus on the wrong numbers, like most TV announcers do.
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CBS and NBC split leadership on this repeat riddled third week of December, with the Eye net first in households and total viewers, and NBC No.1 in the three surveyed demos -- adults 18-49, adults 25-54 (tied with CBS) and adults 18-34. NBC managed to build by minor proportions from one year earlier, while CBS, ABC and Fox were close to year-ago levels. Cellar-dweller the CW dropped by margins of 11 to 22 percent, meanwhile. In the battle of ABC's Duel versus NBC's Clash of the Choirs, the holiday themed Clash of the Choirs held an advantage each time.
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Wednesday night's Red Sox-Angels game was the highest-rated telecast in NESN's 20-year history, returning a 15.1 rating in the Boston market. The audience peaked at an 18.8 rating during the quarter-hour beginning at 9 p.m.
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For the first time, Nielsen will release long-awaited ratings that tell ad buyers exactly how many people are watching their commercials.
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Blog: TV ratings company expanding to monitor cell phone
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Anaheim's 3-2 victory over Ottawa in the opener of the Stanley Cup finals got a 0.72 cable rating on Versus and was watched in 523,000 households in the United States.
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WHAT: "The Cisco Santa Claus Connection" This holiday season, hospitalized children who otherwise would not have the chance to meet Santa Claus will be able to see and speak with jolly old St. Nick through the magic of an Internet video telephone from Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO).
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Prime-Time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for Dec. 24-30. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
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Red Sox plus Yankees equals big TV ratings in both Boston and New York. Friday night's series opener at Fenway Park earned a 21.6 rating (35 audience share), the best number a Channel 38 Red Sox telecast has earned during &quot;the modern era&quot; of cable.
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Sometimes ratings just don't make sense. For example, why would the Patriots' local numbers increase by 18 percent this season? You'd expect that after two Super Bowl championships in three years, the franchise's fan base would be large, but the audience would be relatively stable.
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LOS ANGELES  - Rudolph the Red-nosed  Reindeer shone for CBS on the final night of the November sweep  Wednesday, while ABC scored with its holiday-themed special  featuring married pop stars Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.
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Rakht carries traces of a Ramsey film, but is worth a watch.
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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.