Television
NBC’s ‘America’s Got Talent’ tops the TV ratings, with CBS News’ ’60 Minutes’ and Fox’s ‘Field of Dreams’ MLB game close behind.
Aug. 18, 2021
Even though Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are tied with 62 homers, Fox isn’t planning to preempt network programming this week to show their games.
Sept. 14, 1998
Awards
Heeeere’s Johnny -- again.
Aug. 12, 2015
NBC’s “Chicago Fire” was the top-ranked prime-time program, averaging 6.993 million viewers. CBS won the Feb. 20-26 week with three of the top five shows.
March 1, 2023
The principal aim of tonight’s “Passing the Baton” would seem to be to contrast the personalities and styles of venerable former Chicago Symphony music director Sir Georg Solti and his successor, the 30-years-younger Daniel Barenboim, to whom Solti “passed the baton” (it wasn’t as simple as the program makes out) in 1991, after more than two decades on the Chicago podium.
Oct. 20, 1993
CBS’ ‘FBI’ and ‘NCIS’ finish second and third in the Nielsen ratings for the week of March 7-13, 2022. NBC’s ‘Chicago’ franchise also performs well.
March 15, 2022
Viewership for the four major broadcast networks dropped 19.7% from the previous week, thanks to the end of the Stanley Cup Final and July 4 weekend.
July 9, 2022
Tough, muscular and not entirely appealing accounts of three tone poems by Richard Strauss form the bulk of “Barenboim Conducts Strauss,” two one-hour programs played back-to-back tonight at 8 on KVCR-TV Channel 24 and at 9 on KCET-TV Channel 28 and KPBS-TV Channel 15.
Dec. 20, 1993
Prime-time TV ratings for the week of May 10-16, 2021.
May 18, 2021
The most popular entertainment program in Nielsen’s TV ratings for Sept. 19-25, 2022? ‘FBI,’ followed closely by ‘Chicago Fire’ and ‘Chicago Med.’
Sept. 28, 2022