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Talk shows made the most Nielsen noise in the session ended June 12 with seven of the top 10 strips surging higher. Dr. Phil, despite being in repeats, strengthened 7% to a 1.5 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating, tying a steady Live with Kelly and Ryan for first place in the hotly contested category. Kelly Clarkson, […]

It overtakes Jeopardy in the syndication ratings for the week ending June 5 that included Memorial Day.

The last week of her talk show posts a new season high. Over the last two weeks, the show’s rating leapt 44% and it added an average 568,000 viewers each day.

The penultimate week of the long-running Ellen DeGeneres scored the biggest increase of any show in syndication, surging 22% in households and 33% in the key demo from the prior frame in the session ending May 22 to match its highest rating of the season. While preparing to conclude after a more than 3,200-episode run […]

Jeopardy ratings slid 10% to a seven-week low 5.2 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating in the session ending May 15, which was the first week following the stunning defeat of super-contestant Mattea Roach who lost by a single dollar. Roach had racked up 23 consecutive wins while amassing just over $560,000. But Jeopardy still led the […]

It surged 16% from the previous frame to a five-week high 2.2 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating in the week ending May 8.

In the week ending May 1, the game show powered by Mattea Roach beat out Family Feud by a tenth of a ratings point.

The race among the top talk shows in syndication tightened in the session ending April 24 with a Michelle Obama interview triggering an Ellen ratings eruption as three of the top four highest-rated chat strips scored double digit increases. Dr. Phil leapt into a tie for place first with Live with Kelly and Ryan, picking […]

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Live with Kelly and Ryan racked up its sixth straight talk show race victory in the session ending April 17, and was the only top-tier strip in all of first-run syndication surging into positive territory. It was extremely difficult for programs to move up in the Good Friday-Easter-Passover week as most were heavily preempted or […]