A night, sadly, for news shows.
NBC: We don’t know at this time what the ratings have been for the 24-hour cable news networks that have been covering the Aurora shootings non-stop since Thursday night. Friday evening, the broadcast networks joined the coverage, and NBC devoted 2 primetime hours of DATELINE to the story, with about a 1.2 rating following low-rated sitcom reruns.
ABC: 20/20‘s coverage was about even with NBC’s, with about a 1.3 following a SHARK TANK rerun.
CBS: The network’s news coverage ran during the lower-rated 8PM hour, getting around a 1.0. 2 hours of procedural reruns followed at 0.7.
FOX: Reruns at 0.5/0.6.
CW: Reruns at 0.3.
Barring any news developments, tonight is scheduled to be mostly reruns, aside from a burned-off NYC 22 on CBS, and a pre-Olympics special on NBC. On Sunday, ABC will air the season finale of THE BACHELORETTE, and FOX has the TEEN CHOICE AWARDS.
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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