DIANA COVERAGE PROVIDES NEWSMAGAZINE RATING BOOST.Byline: David Bauder Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Wall-to-wall coverage of Princess Diana's death dominated the prime-time television rankings last week and helped ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. slip past CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. into second place. Newsmagazines accounted for nine of the week's top 25 shows in Nielsen Media Research's rankings, including five editions of ``Dateline NBC,'' and they all touched upon Diana's death to some extent. NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. won the week with a 9.0 rating and 16 share, followed by ABC's 8.2 rating and 14 share, CBS's 7.2 rating and 12 share and Fox's 5.1 rating and 9 share. It was NBC's 18th straight weekly win. The prime-time ratings do not include coverage of Diana's funeral on Saturday morning. Nielsen is estimating that some 33 million people were watching the funeral, although networks believe the viewership was as high as 50 million. Two ABC news specials on the night before the funeral finished fourth and sixth in the prime-time ratings. Together with the return of ``Monday Night Football “MNF” redirects here. For other uses, see MNF (disambiguation). Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. ,'' it helped vault the network past CBS. A rating point represents 980,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 98 million TV homes. Share is the percentage of those televisions in use that are tuned to a given show during a specified time period. Among the emerging networks, UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation finished with a 3.9 rating and 6 share, followed by the WB's 2.6 rating and 4 share. Evening news programs also benefited from the extraordinary interest in Diana's death. NBC's ``Nightly News'' won with an 8.8 rating and 19 share, ABC's ``World News Tonight'' had an 8.5 rating and 18 share, followed by the ``CBS Evening News'' at 6.9 and 15. For the week of Sept. 1-7, the top 10 shows, their networks and ratings, were: ``NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga Monday Night Football: Chicago at Green Bay,'' ABC, 15.0; ``Dateline NBC'' (Tuesday), NBC, 14.2; ``Seinfeld,'' NBC, 14.0; ``PrimeTime Live,'' ABC, 13.3; ``Dateline NBC'' (Friday), NBC, 13.0; ``20/20,'' ABC, 12.4; ``NBC Monday Night Movie: Guarding Tess,'' NBC, 11.9; ``ER,'' NBC, 11.8; ``Dateline NBC'' (Friday special), NBC, 11.7; and ``NFL Monday Night Football Pregame Kickoff,'' ABC, 11.6. |
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