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After more than a decade of dominance in the morning show arena, NBC’s Today is losing some steam. It has been more than a year since Katie Couric left the show to anchor the nightly news on CBS, and since that time, the gap between Today and ABC’s Good Morning America has been narrowing.
The narrowing of the gap is due mainly to declines at Today, where Meredith Vieira took over Couric’s role, writes Media Life.
Year-to-date, Today is down 8 percent to an average of 5.26 million total viewers. Good Morning America, which lost Charles Gibson at about the same time that Couric left Today, is down 1 percent from last year, to 4.82 million.
In May 2005, Good Morning America got to within 45,000 viewers of its rival, but hasn’t come close to that since then. ABC is ahead of NBC in prime time, but still lags in the morning.
All sectors of the media business will suffer from the weakened economy in 2008 and 2009, with a slump in local advertising particularly hurting newspapers and local TV, according to a new projection from Goldman Sachs.
Broadcast nets will experience…
The New York Times is shuttering its International Herald Tribune site; NYTimes.com will soon host the international news normally reserved for its sister website.
The move is not about cost savings, but rather about growth, NYTimes.com general manager Vivian Schiller…
Unilever’s Vaseline set forth on an unusual research project in a small town in Alaska. Setting up a storefront, the company began giving away free bottles of lotion and asking recipients to name the person who had recommended they come…
Meet the Press, the show hosted by Tim Russert for 17 years before his death last June, is beginning to slip in ratings.
Last month, CBS’s Face the Nation pulled ahead of Meet the Press for the first time in two…
Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day, and half of bloggers believe blogs will be a primary source of news and entertainment in the next five years, according to Technorati’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report, MarketingCharts writes.…
Wal-Mart and Costco reported same-store gains in September, with sales rising 2.4% and 9% respectively. Sales at Target stores open at least a year fell 3%, writes Retailer Daily.
Below, fiscal results from the discount retail giants:
Sales of food and…
