Call it #NBCfail if you want to, but the combined networks of NBC Universal managed to turn the London 2012 Olympics into the most-watched event in television history, according to the number-crunchers at the Nielsen Company.
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If you watched Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday, you were part of the most-watched television show in U.S. history.
Sarah Cooper was a new mom in her mid-20s, busily juggling her family and a career as an electrical engineer, when everything came to a halt.
When smartphones first came out, many people wondered whether a TV-addicted culture would care to watch video on such a small screen.
Women text and talk on their mobile phones more than men.
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If you haven't bought a spot for your Super Bowl ad, then you're too late.
The Census Bureau is advertising in the Super Bowl, trying to convince as many people as possible to participate in its once-a-decade nationwide head count.
Phones at help centers across the country rang Saturday, a day after broadcasters halted the transmission of analog signals long depended on by many people without cable or satellite television.
Americans are watching more video online, on their cell phones and on television, according to the Nielsen Company's latest "three screen" report.
A civil rights group says that unless Congress delays this month's scheduled death of traditional television broadcasts, millions of people -- many of them poor, disabled or elderly -- will see only static on their sets.
The effort to delay next month's scheduled death of analog television suffered a setback in Congress on Wednesday, despite warnings that millions of American homes will not be able to see broadcast shows in three weeks.
Congress postponed until Wednesday a vote to delay next month's scheduled death of television as you've known it.
According to many analysts, even a recession can't do much to curb American's love (or willingness to pay) for candy
America's two largest hot dog makers are waging a wiener war as grills fire up this summer, hoping to win over customers and secure the No. 1 spot
In the aftermath of the writer's strike - and with ever-increasing competition from the Internet, cable channels and digital video recorders - primetime network television isn't the all-powerful medium it used to be.
The Nielsen Company, best known for measuring television audiences, hasn't been immune from technology's bulldozing of the media landscape. In a key step aimed at staying competitive, the company announced Monday that it would acquire IAG Research for $225 million.
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