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Now in its 42nd season, ET was the biggest winner in the hottest category in the week ending Jan. 8 with a 21% weekly leap to a new season high 2.3 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating and a 33% spike in the key women 25-54 demo, to a magazine-best 0.8.

The session ending on New Year’s Day was a quiet one for all but a few of the top-shelf syndicated veterans, many of which were completely in reruns. For example, in an extremely rare occurrence, the five most popular magazine strips were all hit with losses. Inside Edition erased 9% from the prior frame; Entertainment […]

The talker led the yak pack by its widest margin in two years in the week ending Dec. 25, with a 6% weekly leap and a 20% spike over the previous three weeks to a 1.8 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating.

This is no malarkey — the bombshell news that President Biden planned to give his first sitdown interview since the midterms to Drew Barrymore on her show airing Dec. 19 created a Nielsen explosion for the program, sending the three-year-old talker to highest ratings ever one week before the interview was even broadcast. In the […]

The talker played to its largest audience of the syndication year in the session ending Dec. 4 with 1.4 million daily viewers and its strongest Nielsen number since last January with an 11% leap to a 44-week high 1.0 live national household rating.

Tamron Hall was hot but almost everything else was not. Most syndicated shows had little to be thankful in the holiday session ending Nov. 27. Thanksgiving was a ratings turkey for most shows and Black Friday was pretty gloomy too. Syndies were also sunk by World Cup soccer all week, which virtually blew out daytime […]

Several syndicated shows surged in the post-election session ending Nov. 20, with Jeopardy, Judge Judy, Hot Bench and Entertainment Tonight among the heavyweights hitting new season highs. Jeopardy elevated 11% from the week before to a season-best 6.1 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating, as the final round of its annual Tournament of Champions got underway. The […]

Jeopardy had all the right answers in the session ending Nov. 13, notching a 4% weekly increase to a new season high and syndication-best 5.5 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating with the second week of its annual Tournament of Champions. Meanwhile, daytime shows were severely depressed by several days of must-see TV election coverage as news […]

Hot newcomer Jennifer Hudson hit a home run in households as shows had to compete with Games 3,4 and 5 of the World Series in the session ending Nov. 6. The closely watched rookie rose by double digits and recorded its strongest outing since its September debut, joining fellow freshman Sherri as syndication’s highest-rated new […]

Preemptions hit a number of shows, but Extra and TMZ were able to produce, hitting it out of the park with increases of 20% and 17%, respectively.