With Nielsen Under Scrutiny, NBCU Wants to Build New Measurement System

Wigan Warriors head coach Adrian Lam admits his team need to start scoring more points if they are to make a serious impression on the play-offs and challenge for the Super League title.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBS Sports and Nickelodeon will expand the work they do to link younger viewers to the National Football League, working to build on a kids-focused Wild Card game broadcast that gained traction earlier this year.As part of the activity, Nickelodeon will telecast another NFL Wild Card game on Jan. 16, alongside CBS Sports’ usual coverage that day.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN said it would place sports host Max Kellerman in a new mid-afternoon program after taking him off the popular hot-talk show “First Take” last month, unveiling a daytime schedule it hopes will keep viewers interested for a longer period of time.Kellerman’s new program, “This Just In,” will debut September 14 at 2 p.m., and offer news, opinion and analysis of trending sports headlines as well as looking ahead at potential sports news from the evening ahead.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSusan Zirinsky, the former CBS News chief and longtime leader of its “48 Hours,” is refashioning herself as a streaming-video maven.Zirinsky will lead the new See It Now Studios, a new production unit that will create news, documentary and unscripted programming for the Paramount Plus streaming-video hub, the CBS broadcast network and other networks owned by parent company ViacomCBS.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOn Sunday, Scott Pelley gets a full hour to tell a story which has gripped him for 20 years.In the season premiere of “60 Minutes,” the correspondent gives viewers a dramatic look at the firefighters who responded to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11, complete with actual recordings of emergency calls made during the horrific event.

James Bentley could be set for a serious spell on the sidelines after suffering a potentially serious injury in St Helens' defeat to Catalans.

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNielsen’s decades-old track record of measuring the TV business was dealt a serious blow Wednesday after an industry organization decided to suspend its backing of the company’s national ratings service and also cancel an agreed-upon hiatus for its support of Nielsen’s local TV efforts as well.The suspension is the latest salvo in a months-long joust between TV networks and the company that has long tabulated its viewership, and is the latest sign of the

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTom Llamas is ready to leap into an increasingly crowded field for evening news.The NBC News anchor, who previously led a streaming evening program at ABC News, is preparing for the launch of a digital evening endeavor for NBC News, a project he vows will have a kinetic feel and range a little further afield than the linear products that still represent the best-known examples of the format.“This is going to be a fast-paced, high-story-count nightly newscast,”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorProcter & Gamble is throwing what it hopes will be a touchdown pass to the NFL.The consumer-products giant has tapped the football league to push one of its biggest marketing initiatives in years.

is gearing up for its 41st season in Fiji!On Monday, CBS revealed the 18 new castaways that will compete on the next edition of the Emmy Award-winning series, which the network describes as «a bold new era.» «As the thrilling competition begins on the beautiful islands of Fiji, 18 determined castaways will be divided into three tribes of six to face a faster, more intense and more dangerous season than ever before,» a press release states. «The unpredictable, accelerated pace will test even the

EXCLUSIVE: Shout Studios and Hideout Pictures’ Old Henry has been set for a U.S. theatrical release on October 1. This will follow the western’s world premiere as an out of competition official selection title at the Venice Film Festival on September 7. Check out the trailer above.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAn ABC News producer who has worked for years at “Good Morning America” has alleged that the show’s former top executive sexually assaulted her and another female staffer, and she claims the network did little to reprimand or punish him.In a suit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kirstyn Crawford, a producer who works with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, alleges that Michael Corn, the former top producer at “Good Morning America,”

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBCUniversal intends to identify a group of partners for its ambitious measurement plans by mid September — and traditional measurement companies like Nielsen and ComScore are in the mix, the company disclosed Tuesday.NBCU on Monday unveiled its ambition to launch a new, independent measurement system for advertisers, an eyebrow-raising maneuver that takes place as Nielsen, long the main purveyor of  measurement of TV audiences, is seeking a temporary hiatus from

EXCLUSIVE: The blast radius from the end of Andrew Cuomo’s reign in the Empire State this week could see another chief executive forced to exit, or at least face a reckoning.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBehind the scenes, the TV news biz is reeling as top talent exit rarefied posts for new ventures, worn out after an intense year covering the Trump administration and the rise of the coronavirus.Four of TV’s top news programs — ABC’s “Good Morning America,” “CBS Evening News,” “NBC Nightly News” and the fourth hour of NBC’s “Today” morning franchise — are on the hunt for executive producers.

Jesy Nelson wiped her entire Instagram feed in the run-up to the release of her new music album, but now she’s back with an absolute banger of a debut snap.The former Little Mix member, who parted ways with the X-Factor-born band in late 2020, shared a polaroid-style image of herself in a tiny bikini, simply captioning it with the name of her first solo song “Boyz”.The majority of fan comments are about the new track, but several have drawn a comparison between the star and noughties icon