Grammy Viewership Hits Lowest Level Since 1995
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With "Desperate Housewives" as  competitors, the Grammy awards on Sunday drew their lowest  total viewership in a decade and also fell sharply among the  audience of 18- to 49-year-olds most coveted by advertisers,  according to preliminary figures released on Monday.
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The number of consumers legally downloading recorded music has fallen to 1 million from a high of 1.3 million in April, The Hollywood Reporter said Wednesday.
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An entertainment industry group says activity on legal music and video services has dropped for the first time.
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Audience numbers across the country fell for the second year running in 2006 as film battled for the population's attention with internet activities such as social networking sites and downloading music.
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The globe-spanning Live Earth pop music extravaganza fell flat for television viewers in the United States and Britain, drawing far smaller audiences than the Princess Diana tribute concert a week earlier.
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Another year, another downward turn for the record business. So what will the industry do?
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The peak-time TV audience for the Live Earth gig is less than a third of that for last week's Concert for Diana.
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U.S. mortgage applications fell for   the first time in four weeks as demand for home purchase loans   dropped to the lowest level in nearly three years, an industry   trade group said on Wednesday.
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A big loser at this year's Emmy ceremony? The Emmys broadcast, which may have been the least-watched in history. Preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research put the audience for Sunday's show, aired on Fox, at 13.1 million viewers. That's 3 million fewer than for last year's telecast, on NBC, and less than the record low 13.8 million three years ago on ABC.
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Kanye West leads the pack of nominees in a year when the Grammy committee was even more clueless than usual
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NEW YORK  - CBS and ABC fell to their lowest ratings among the coveted adults 18-49 demographic in two decades last week, as reruns and summer alternatives drove viewers from their couches.
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The NBA finals continue to draw far fewer viewers than last year.
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U.S. mortgage applications last week  sank to their lowest level in over four years, as home purchase  loan demand tumbled for the third straight week, an industry  trade group said on Wednesday.
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Ratings for the MTV  Video Music Awards plunged 31% among viewers in the cable  network's target demographic, those aged 12-34.
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Public approval of the job President Bush is doing now matches its all-time low, an AP-Ipsos poll says.
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The 59th annual Primetime Emmys and its farewell salute to "The Sopranos" was a ratings dud, averaging just over 13 million viewers, the second-lowest number on record for the awards, Nielsen Media Research reported on Monday.
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The 47th Annual Grammys on Sunday  were long on tributes and short on controversy thanks to a  self-censored performance by punk trio Green Day and Sheryl  Crow's peek-a-boo yellow gown, which covered just enough.