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Connecticut's attorney general said Friday that he has subpoenaed the nation's three largest debt-rating agencies as part of an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices.
Standard & Poor's said Wednesday it cut the ratings on 1,713 classes of securities, worth some $23.35 billion, backed by mortgages issued in the first six months of this year.
Sometimes a radical change to the formula still delivers the same result. That's what happened Tuesday when Nielsen Media Research released highly anticipated commercial ratings for the first week of the fall prime-time TV season.
Radio advertisers who for years complained about the low-tech way of tracking listeners are getting what they asked for and more: Electronic ratings are delivering more accurate counts, but are also upending basic assumptions about the industry.
Nearly 1.5 million people tuned in to a televised debate among Democratic presidential candidates Wednesday night in New Hampshire.
PBS estimates 18.7 million viewers saw Sunday's airings of "The War," the first chapter of Ken Burns' seven-part documentary about World War II.
Smoking will be a bigger factor in determining film ratings, the Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday, but critics said the move does not go far enough to discourage teens from taking up the habit.
"Lost" crashed in the ratings this week, hitting an all-time low for a new episode. ABC's drama about plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island drew an estimated 12.8 million viewers Wednesday, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research. That's well off the peak of more than 20 million for the drama that became an instant sensation when it debuted in September 2004.
"American Idol" is back and bigger than ever. The Fox TV talent contest's season premiere was the most-watched in its six-year history, drawing an estimated 37.3 million viewers Tuesday, according to preliminary ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
With the holiday shopping season underway, an industry group for video games is trying to encourage parents to use its voluntary ratings to protect children from graphic images of sex and violence.
ESPN's Monday night NFL game was watched by more viewers than any show in cable TV history except a 1993 debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot.
ESPN's first regular-season Monday night NFL game under the new contract drew the cable network's biggest audience ever.
North Carolina's win over then-No. 1 Duke on Saturday was watched by an average of 3.78 million households — the largest audience for a men's college basketball game in ESPN's history.
An estimated 38.8 million people watched the Academy Awards on ABC, down 8 percent from last year and the second-worst showing in nearly two decades, according to Nielsen Media Research.
"American Idol" did a number again on the Olympics in terms of viewers Thursday, but the big winner from one of television's most competitive nights in memory may be the viewers themselves.
Some humbling news for the pros: By a wide margin, TV viewers prefer the amateurs.
The Pittsburgh Steelers' victory over the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl was watched in an average of 45.85 million homes, the second-highest total in television history behind the final episode of 'M-A-S-H' in 1983.
California State Senator and noted anti-video game critic Leland Yee has slammed both Rockstar Games and the ESRB ratings system after it was revealed that the PSP "M" rated version of Manhunt 2 could have some of the "AO" content of the game unlocked. Here is a snip:
I've decided with all this selection of Newsvine authors to be on the television that I'd like to throw my hat into the ring to make Andy Warhol proud.
Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday.
In a blow to the company that is poised to be the largest automaker in the world, Toyota Motor Corp. fell so far in Consumer Reports' annual reliability survey that the magazine will no longer automatically recommend the company's new cars and trucks to readers.
Here's the latest Partisan Hack handicapping of the presidential campaigns, with a letter grade indicating the quality of the campaigning, not necessarily where they'll wind up.
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Still in the rumor phase, but initial reports are showing that Fox Studios has pulled the director of the Hitman movie off the project and installed the gimp who re-cut Die Hard 4 into the PG-13 crapfest that graced the silver screen.
The latest Zogby poll shows that only 11 percent of Americans approve of the job done by Nancy Pelosi's congress. That is 11 percent! Bush's approval ratings are 18 percent higher by contrast.
The Nielsen Company says that it will triple the size of its National People Meter (NPM) television ratings panel by 2011, further increasing the precision of its national television ratings and providing more flexibility for measuring non-traditional television viewing.
Ten things I learned at the presentation by Nielsen Vice President Jeff L. Herrmann about their new measuring system for game play.
The websites of magazines for teenage girls are apeing the techniques of so-called "lads' mags" by urging girls barely out of primary school to upload photographs of themselves and post highly critical ratings of their own and others' bodies, a conference will hear today .
FX comedy gets big ratings bump to start season. The gleefully off-color comedy debuted to its highest-ever ratings last week, with the third-season premiere bringing in more than 60 percent more viewers than last year's opener. A second episode also did pretty well.
Maybe, just maybe the idea of adding Keith Olbermann to the NFL on NBC roster is paying off for his MSNBC show. Countdown was the number one show in all of cable news Friday night, in the 25-54 demo (live+ same day DVR).
TNT's "The Closer" broke another ratings record Monday when 9.2 million viewers tuned in to watch the hot cop drama's third-season finale -- the most ever for an ad-supported cable series.
The MPAA thinks Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" has too much lust, and it's cautioning moviegoers by branding it with an NC-17 rating.
Without much promotion Keith did very good for the first time on Sunday. This isn't a new day for Countdown yet. NBC wasn't airing the pre-game show "Football Night in America," so a slot opened up and they took it.
... While out-of-date banking regulations and lax federal oversight didn't help [sub-prime lending] matters, it was the complicity of the rating agencies -- Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch Ratings -- that enabled the boom. ...
CreditCards.com a widely used credit card comparison website has filed for IPO with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The amount of the IPO is $115 million. Is this going to turn out to be a great public company? The answer is, sure.
Disney's High School Musical 2 rocked the ratings Friday night (Aug.
US stocks fell today as worries about mortgage losses deepened after a ratings agency cut its outlook on investment bank Bear Stearns Cos.' debt, and data suggested weakness in the economy.
Looks like the CNN news team threw the wrong anchor overboard last week.
Most television programs are supported by advertisers. But advertisers these days aren't sure how much money it's worth spending on your eyeballs. After all, you might have a PVR that you use to fast forward past commercials.
Now family-friendly juggernaut Disney has become the first major Hollywood studio to back the MPAA 's anti-smoking decision to help keep cigarettes away from the youth of America.
There have not been a lot of happy moments at NBC lately, at least not in prime time. The network finished last again this season — a third in a row.
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