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Publisher’s Weekly confirmed that she sold 700,000 copies of “Going Rogue” in its first week out of 2.5 million copies. “Going Rogue” sold 7 times as many copies at the book stores as “The Audacity Of Hope” sold in its first week, Nielsen reported. Her latest post on Facebook mirrored my own feelings on liberal priorities: Congress Never Ceases to Amaze Yesterday at 7:51pm Really? A tax on national defense? I hear liberal Congressional proposals and I, like most Americans, wonder if they’re serious. We’re going to put a price tag on security? With Congress and President Obama spending money...

FNC Crushing all others still! Beck beats Hannity in the Demo!

(CNN) -- Nearly a decade after she was rescued from a remote Antarctic research station after diagnosing herself with breast cancer, Dr. Jerri Nielsen died early Tuesday, her brother said. She was 57. Jerri Nielsen treated herself for breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole in 1999. Jerri Nielsen treated herself for breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole in 1999. Nielsen had been fighting the latest round of cancer for the past five years, brother Eric Cahill said. She died just before 4 a.m. in Massachusetts, surrounded by her family, he said. "She would want to be...

Nielsen Media Research has conceded making an error and is performing a recount after the company's ratings on Tuesday initially indicated that ABC's "World News" most likely had its smallest audience ever. The dispute with Nielsen was a downer for the network after the entertainment division—keyed by the National Basketball Association finals—won in the prime-time ratings for the first week since September. It was ABC's most-watched week in the summer in five years, according to Nielsen. ABC asked Nielsen for an investigation after its ratings showed "World News" averaged 6.2 million viewers last week (4.3 rating, 9 share), its worst...

Morning programs (6:00AM-9:00AM) P2+ (25-54) (35-64)FOX & Friends –1,151,000 viewers (388,000) (649,000)American Morning- 373,000 viewers (129,000) (182,000)Morning Joe-411,000 viewers (124,000) (221,000)Squawk Box-164,000 viewers (52,000) (95,000)Morning Express w/ Meade- 278,000 viewers (165,000) (169,000)5PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)Glenn Beck – 1,963,000 viewers (493,000) (855,000)Situation Room—628,000 viewers (123,000) (203,000)Hardball w/ Chris Matthews —527,000 viewers (138,000) (232,000)Fast Money—188,000 viewers (58,000) (74,000)Prime News—241,000 viewers (65,000) (115,000)6PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)Special Report w/Bret Baier – 1,698,000 viewers (453,000) (763,000)Situation Room—540,000 viewers (111,000) (191,000)Ed Show —552,000 viewers (158,000) (276,000)Mad Money—167,000 viewers (61,000) (88,000)Prime News—234,000 viewers (85,000) (129,000)7PM - P2+ (25-54) (35-64)Fox Report w/Shepard Smith– 1,436,000 viewers (365,000)...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Taking to the airwaves again to pitch his economic plan, President Barack Obama drew 40 million viewers for his latest news conference, down some 9 million from his first prime-time press encounter last month. Obama's question-and-answer session with reporters at the White House on Tuesday night capped a weeklong media blitz by the president and was carried by 11 U.S. TV networks, including the Big Four broadcast outlets, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, according to Nielsen Media Research. By comparison, the first prime-time news conference of his presidency, on February 9, averaged 49.5 million viewers across...

Yesterday Sen. John McCain boosted his TV advertising units in seven key swing states — Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, closing the gap between his advertising and Sen. Barack Obama’s. On Sunday, Oct. 26, McCain ran just 331 TV ad units in those seven states — 308% fewer than the 1,350 ad units Obama ran that day. But on Monday, Obama’s lead in these key battleground states shrank to 113% — or a margin of 1,528 ad units, after McCain’s campaign increased the number of TV ad units it ran in those states by 308%, to 1,353...

FNC's NH GOP Debate Highest Rated Yet The Republican debate on FNC last night was the highest rated debate so far this election cycle. The debate scored 3.14 million total viewers. That beats the nine other presidential debates. The debate ran until 10:39pmET, after which Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes took over in the spin room, with an assist from 'campaign' Carl Cameron and his Carl Cam, which was edited together for a piece that aired on the Big Story today. >More, from an emailer: "Debate blows out CNN's Bill Clinton appearance on King which averaged just 1.4 million viewers."

NEW YORK (AP) - A leading online measurement service will scrap rankings based on the longtime industry yardstick of page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites. The move by Nielsen/NetRatings, expected to be announced Tuesday, comes as online video and new technologies increasingly make page views less meaningful. Although Nielsen already measures average time spent and average number of sessions per visitor for each site, it will start reporting total time spent and sessions for all visitors to give advertisers, investors and analysts a broader picture of what sites are most popular. Currently, sites and...

/25/2007 - SAN ANTONIO (AFNEWS) -- Retired Lt. Col. Chase J. Nielsen, one of the famed "Tokyo Doolittle Raiders" who helped boost American morale in the early days of World War II with a surprise air attack on Japan and spent a lifetime as an advocate for American airpower, died March 23 at his home in Brigham City, Utah. Born Jan. 14, 1917 in Hyrum, Utah, Colonel Nielsen attended Utah State University and graduated in 1939 with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. In August 1939, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a flying cadet....

24 kept up the pace on the second night of its two-day premiere on Monday, despite increased competition from the Golden Globes telecast. Episodes three and four of the new season - airing back-to-back on Fox from 8pm - averaged a healthy 15.7 million viewers and a 5.9 rating / 13 share in Adults 18-49. The retention was flawless on Sunday night's opener and up on last year's Monday night premiere, which had 14.9 million. The Globes, meanwhile, put in a stellar 20 million for NBC between 8pm and 11pm, up 1.2 million on 2006 and its best viewership in...

There was no sixth-season slump for Jack Bauer. The season premiere of Fox’s “24” Sunday night, airing opposite CBS’s NFL playoff-plumped lineup and ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” drew more total viewers than last year while matching the season five premiere among adults 18-49. That’s according to Nielsen overnights. “24” averaged a 6.1 in 18-49s and drew 15.7 million total viewers, up 6 percent over last year’s 14.8 million and the show’s best-ever debut without a football lead-in. The two-hour show began at 8 p.m. and grew from a 5.8 in its first hour to a 6.3 in its second. “24” also...

Rita Cosby is losing her year-old MSNBC show and will get her own specials unit for the cable channel effective July 10. The shuffle, which MSNBC announced Thursday, is the first big move of Dan Abrams' three-week tenure as MSNBC's general manager. "Rita Cosby: Live and Direct," which has been telecast at 10 p.m. (ET) weeknights and repeated at 1 a.m. (ET) since late spring, will be replaced by taped documentary programming, under the familiar label of "MSNBC Investigates." Ms. Cosby will serve as the primary anchor of "Investigates," which has been led by various rotating anchors over years. "Investigates"...

By Doug Robinson Deseret Morning News There are a few long-standing, common sense rules to remember if you want to keep your job. Never beat the boss at golf. Never fail to laugh at his jokes. Never yawn when he's telling stories about his adorable kids. Never take his parking spot. And, oh yeah, don't go to the newspaper and say something that challenges his agenda and supports his competition. That's exactly what Jeffrey Nielsen, the adjunct BYU philosophy professor, did earlier this month. He wrote a guest column for the Salt Lake Tribune in which he opposed The Church...

It's been a tragic year for ABC's "Evening News Tonight," with the death of Peter Jennings and the wounding of Bob Woodruff while reporting from Iraq, and it's looking to be a sticky, unpleasant summer for Charles Gibson, fresh in his new job as anchor of the evening news broadcast. Last week, his second in his new job, "World News Tonight" hit bottom, posting its worst viewership since the people meter era began nearly 20 years ago, averaging 7.05 million viewers, or nearly 800,000 fewer than No. 1 "NBC Nightly News." That's down 11 percent from the same week last...

NBC's telecast of the opening ceremony from the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, drew ratings 50 percent lower than four years ago in Salt Lake City. The broadcast Friday night was watched in 12.8 percent of the 110.2 million U.S. households with televisions, according to Nielsen Media Research Inc. NBC drew 25.5 percent for the first Olympic telecast in 2002. CBS's opening telecast in 1998 from Nagano, Japan, had a 17.1 rating. advertisement NBC's broadcast Friday night still garnered more than double the average U.S. prime-time rating for Friday nights this season of 4.9 percent, Nielsen said. The four-hour telecast,...

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Fast National ratings for Friday, Jan. 20, 2006 The "Dancing with the Stars" results show generated enough momentum for ABC early Friday night to carry the network to a ratings win. ABC averaged a 7.5 rating/13 share in primetime to score a comfortable win over CBS, 6.1/10. NBC finished third at 4.7/8. UPN and FOX tied for fourth in households at 2.8/5, although UPN held an edge in viewers. The WB trailed with a 1.7/3. Among adults 18-49, ABC's 3.2 rating led the way. CBS took second with a 2.6, followed by NBC at 2.2 and FOX...

NBC'S "THE BOOK OF DANIEL" may be off the air soon--more because of Nielsen issues than sins against a higher power. Ratings for the controversial drama dropped 23 percent Friday among adults 18-49 versus its Jan. 6 premiere. With a 2.2 mark, the show lost 36 percent of its "Dateline" lead-in. (Viewers declined by two million, or 29 percent, compared to the week before.) A call to NBC on Monday was not returned; the network's Web site says the show is scheduled to air this Friday. The drama about a liberal Episcopalian priest who pops pills and has a gay...

It its second chapter, NBC's controversial drama Book of Daniel averaged a 2.2rating/6 share in the Nielsen Fast Affiliate overnight ratings in the 18-49 demo Friday night. That is down significantly from the 2.9/9 the show recorded for its two-hour debut the Friday before. A handful of stations have dropped the limited series--8 episodes--over content concerns with the edgy drama about a prescription-drug addicted priest and his dysfunctional family. The top show of the night Friday was CBS drama Numbers at a 3.7/11, followed by the results show for ABC's Dancing With the Stars, which won its time period with...

TV Newser crunches a bunch of year-end cable news numbers for us. Of note: O'Reilly led the pack, with the most viewers overall and among the 25-54s. In fact, Fox News had 11 of the top 12 shows in 2005. Only CNN's Larry King Live busts in, at #6. This is the fourth year in a row at the top for Fox News. Bill O'Reilly is the king of cable news again this year. He's #1 on the 2005 weekday program ranker, followed by H&C, Greta, Shep and Hume. The "Competitive Program Analysis" shows CNN's Larry King at #6. The...

Some 36 million watch Big Four networks President Bush hasn’t made a primetime speech since September. After this weekend’s revelation that Bush authorized domestic spying on suspected terrorists in the aftermath of Sept. 11, everyone wanted to hear from the president. Last night’s 20-minute presidential address about the Iraq War on the Big Four broadcast networks averaged 36.5 million total viewers from 9-9:30 p.m., according to Nielsen fast affiliate ratings. Final viewership numbers, measuring just Bush’s speech, will be out tomorrow. The 36.5 million total viewers were a 15 percent increase over the 31.8 million who tuned into Bush’s post-Hurricane...

Country music may not be as hot as it was at this time last year, but it could still help CBS to a November sweeps victory. CBS’s three-hour coverage of the 39th annual “Country Music Awards” averaged a 5.4 overnight rating among viewers 18-49 last night, up 35 percent over CBS’s season-to-date average on Tuesday nights. CBS usually averages a 4.0 in the demo on Tuesdays. That big bump gives CBS an edge over ABC as the two head into the final two weeks of sweeps in a dead heat among viewers 18-49. Through Monday night, CBS led with a...

NEW YORK (AP) - Bringing a microphone and camera crew to the gates of an Aruba landfill this past week, Greta Van Susteren returned to the island that her nightly Fox News Channel program has figuratively called home recently. Van Susteren's "On the Record" has relentlessly followed the mysterious disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway of Alabama while on a graduation trip to Aruba in May. Critics find it an obsession bordering on the bizarre, twisting traditional notions of news judgment and becoming Exhibit A in the media's fascination with missing people - as long as they happen to be young,...

...Since... spring 2004, the company has spent more than $4 million to hire some of the nation's premier lobbyists to counter a savvy campaign conducted by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, a team of longtime Clinton strategists hired by the media conglomerate, and a coalition of black and Hispanic community leaders. Before 2004, Nielsen had not spent a dime on lobbying. Nielsen has also sprinkled more than $200,000 among minority organizations.... The technology, called local people meters, replaced set-top boxes and paper diaries, and offered advertisers and TV networks something they had never had before: detailed local demographic data every day...

Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., has been promising a Fox News business cable channel for more than a year, hoping to surpass General Electric Co.'s CNBC in the ratings the way Fox News Channel has eclipsed CNN.... Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, is a co-owner with NBC of CNBC's television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC in the U.S. The Saturday morning lineup of business shows on Fox News Channel -- "Bulls and Bears," "Cavuto on Business," "Forbes on Fox" and "Cashin' In" -- already draws higher...

NEW YORK (AP) -- New electronic gadgets introduced by Nielsen Media Research to track television viewing show that more people -- men in particular -- are watching more television than measured under the old paper diary system. Each of the four markets where the so-called people meters have been introduced showed an increase in the number of people watching television in May 2005 compared with May 2004, Nielsen said. The new local-TV ratings system, which replaces a written paper-diary system with a remote-control-like device, showed an 18.6 percent in TV viewing in San Francisco, followed by a 9.1 percent gain...

Season-to-date, Nascar regular telecasts on Fox, excluding the Daytona 500, are averaging a 6.1 rating and 14 share, up 5 percent over the same period last year, which was a 5.8/14. The telecasts are also averaging 10 million viewers, up 6 percent from the 9.4 million they averaged last season. Fox is crowing that the Nascar telecasts is currently the highest-rated sport currently being televised, including the NBA postseason games. The past Sunday's telecast of the Coca-Cola 600, which aired in prime time, produced a 6.1/13 national rating, up 22 percent over the same race telecast last season. The race...

NEW YORK - Danica Patrick's first Indianapolis 500 made for great television. ABC's broadcast on Sunday drew a 6.6 overnight rating and a 17 share, up 40 percent from last year and the highest since 1997.Patrick, who became the first woman to hold the lead at the Indy 500, led several of the final laps before settling for fourth. The ratings during the last 15 minutes of the race spiked to 8.8/21. Dan Wheldon passed the 23-year-old rookie with seven laps to go and coasted to his first victory at the Brickyard. Last year's race, won by Patrick's Rahal-Letterman teammate...

Just three weeks after his last night as anchor of the CBS Evening News, on Wednesday night Dan Rather will start his new job as a full-time correspondent on the Wednesday edition of 60 Minutes, the very program sullied by Rather's September hit piece on President Bush based on forged memos. Rather's first story: An interview with retired GE Chairman Jack Welch and his new wife. Rather hopes to boost the ratings of the 59th-ranked prime time program so CBS keeps it on the fall schedule and thus provide him with a job. Rather told the Philadelphia Inquirer's Gail Shister...

I recieved a strange phone call tonite. Just wondering if anyone else has been contacted. I thought at first it was going to be another poll. The girl had a very irritating voice. She asked a few questions about my viewing habits; How many hours a week I watched TV. (My tv and my computer are in the same room, and the TV is on FoxNews from the time I hit the door til I go to bed, whereupon I turn on FoxNews on the bedroom set) Did I watch sitcoms? (never); Did I watch dramas? (depends) Then came a...

Letterman narrows late-night ratings gap with Leno LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rival talk show hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman are fighting again, turning up the heat on the serious business of late-night comedy ratings. Nearly a year after NBC chieftain Jeff Zucker proclaimed Leno was so far ahead in the ratings that "there is no more late-night war," CBS boasted Thursday that Letterman was on the comeback trail, narrowing the gap against a fading Leno.

CNBC MCENROE HITS '0' RATING... 10 PM ET SLOT IN TOTAL COLLAPSE 0.0 RATING FOR NIELSEN, PULLS ONLY 37,000 HOUSEHOLDS NATIONWIDE... NBC NOW PAYING JOHN MCENROE $27 FOR EACH TV HOME WATCHING, BASED ON CLAIMED MILLION-DOLLAR YEARLY SALARY...

The battle over Nielsen Media Research's plans to modernize the way it measures local television viewership has become far more than the typical industry dispute.

<p>NEW YORK — Paris Hilton (search) was a bigger television draw than President Bush (search) this week. So, for that matter, was Mark Harmon.</p> <p>ABC's interview of the president by Diane Sawyer, telecast Tuesday, only two days after the capture of Saddam Hussein was announced, was seen by 11 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research.</p>

NEW YORK - The company that measures television usage has a message for the broadcast networks: Don't blame us for pointing out that young male viewers are fleeing. Nielsen Media Research released a report late Monday strongly defending itself against complaints by the networks that its research is faulty. Through mid-November, Nielsen has said that prime-time TV viewing by men aged 18 to 34 is down nearly 8 percent this fall compared to autumn 2002. That statistic has baffled and infuriated the major broadcast networks, particularly since the young male audience is elusive and advertisers pay a premium to reach...

ABC a fourth-place network for two months - - - - - - - - - - - -David BauderApril 18, 2003  |  NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox's resurgence over the past few months means ABC is frequently the fourth-place network, and its weakness was evident again last week. Only two ABC programs -- "Primetime Thursday" and "The Bachelor" -- were among the week's 40 most-watched prime-time programs last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. By contrast, NBC had 16 shows in the top 40, CBS had 15 and Fox had seven, Nielsen said. ABC has been the fourth-place network...