Nielsen Co.

CBS holds onto its ratings lead in prime time

35 days ago

But TV programming remained largely status quo last week with CBS maintaining its decisive lead, Nielsen Co. figures showed Tuesday.

Nielsen's top programs for April 29-May 5

42 days ago

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for April 29-May 5.

Television viewers make their choice of killers

42 days ago

Last week's Nielsen Co. ratings make that clear.

`American Idol' is now 3rd-rated competition show

50 days ago

Both editions of "The Voice" on NBC and "Dancing With the Stars" on ABC had larger audiences than "Idol" last week, the Nielsen Co. said.

Nielsen's top programs for April 22-28

50 days ago

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for April 22-28.

Nielsen's top programs for March 4-10

99 days ago

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for March 4-10.

Nielsen's top programs for Feb. 25-March 3

106 days ago

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 25-March 3.

'The Bible' a big ratings winner

106 days ago

Meanwhile, the Nielsen company said both episodes of "American Idol" last week had their smallest audiences since joining Fox's regular schedule more than a decade ago.

Oscars' strong showing boosts other ABC shows, too

113 days ago

Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscars talk show got its biggest audience in the eight years he's been doing it, the Nielsen Co. said.

Nielsen's top prime-time programs for Feb. 18-24

113 days ago

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 18-24.

Television ratings up for Oscars, to 40.3M people

113 days ago

The Nielsen Company said Monday it was the most-watched Oscars telecast in three years.

Harder and harder to measure TV viewership

114 days ago

Nielsen, which has long had a virtual monopoly on the audience statistics that drive a multi-billion dollar industry, last week took an important step toward accounting for some of the changes.

Nielsen to begin counting broadband viewing homes

118 days ago

Nielsen and the industry studied this to see whether people were pulling their plugs because of the recession; instead, the bulk of the new "non-TV homes" were simply watching TV in a different way.

Nielsen's top programs for Feb. 11-17

119 days ago

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 11-17.

Nielsen: 33.5 million watch State of the Union

125 days ago

The Nielsen ratings company said Wednesday it was down from the 37.8 million people who saw Obama's State of the Union last year.