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ESPN was once again heavyweight champ of cable ratings for the week ended Dec. 24, averaging 3.66 million prime time viewers.
With a 2.9 household rating, ESPN also nabbed first in the 18-49, 25-54, and 18-34 demos, writes Mediaweek. It won the week’s most-watched program on ad-supported cable for the week, as well, with 14.22 million viewers for its Monday Night Football game - hardly surprising, as the sports network has won the top slot with MNF all through the fourth quarter.
USA Network took second place for the week, thanks in large part to its three-hour airing of WWE Raw.
Disney Channel finished third among all cable nets, while TNT placed third behind USA for ad-supported cable nets. ABC Family followed, with TBS finishing fifth.
Comcast is hoping to enlighten media buyers on the ways of young men ages 18-34 with its new “field guide,” titled Hunting with Lightsabers, that has been in the works for a year and is now available.
The guide provides…
One of the few remaining tabloid book review sections in the country’s newspapers bought the farm this weekend.
The Chicago Tribune, which last year moved its stand-alone book review tabloid from Sunday to Saturday, has killed the section altogether, replacing…
A “Money Bus” took off to begin its tour of the country this week. The bus - part of a campaign by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) Consumer Education Foundation, and TD Ameritrade Institutional…
Though prime time viewing on broadcast is down, all four networks are up in viewers for NFL games through the first four weeks of the season, compared to last year.
NFL games are scoring high ratings in part because the…
Most Americans are very concerned about their internet privacy and many are taking steps to limit the information that is being collected and shared about them online, according to a poll from Consumer Reports, MarketingCharts reports.
To combat what they view…
Companies are struggling with how to adapt to serve a new wave of consumers from the Millennial Generation (or Gen Y) - born between 1982 and 2001 - according to a global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Alcatel-Lucent company Genesys, reports Retailer…
