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Disney Buys 21st Century Fox. See Below!
Reality and News Magazine dominated viewing on television throughout the world on Wednesday.
The Daily Diary Of Screens #dailydiaryofscreens 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺💻📱📺🎬🌎🗺️🇮🇳. For Wednesday, December 13, 2017. This is your North America, Central America, South America, India, UK and Australian Daily Television Ratings Platform.
In the U.S., CBS #1 broadcast network as ‘Survivor‘ was the top broadcast program.
In the UK, ITV #1 broadcast network as BBC One’s ‘The Apprentice‘ was the top program as ‘Coronation Street’ was the top soap.
In Australia, ‘Seven‘ was the #1 broadcast network as Nine’s ‘A Current Affair‘ featuring was the #1 program as ‘Seven News‘ was the top newscast.
‘Coco‘ was the #1 film at the domestic box office this weekend. See Below.
‘Coco‘ was the #1 film at the international box office this weekend. See Below.
In Canada, CTV Total #1 network week of 13-19 November 2017 as ‘The Big Bang Theory‘ was the #1 program in Canada.
In Argentina, El Trece #1 broadcast network as ‘Las Estrellas‘ was the top program 28 November 2017.
In Chile, MEGA #1 broadcast network as ‘PNP‘ was the top program 28 November 2017.
In Perú, ‘AmericaTV‘ #1 broadcast network as ‘De Vuelta al Barrio‘ top program 28 November 2017.
In Colombia, Caracol #1 broadcast network as ‘Tarde lo conocí‘ top program 28 November 2017.
In México, Las Estrellas #1 broadcast network as ‘La Rosa‘ was the top Méxican program 28 November 2017 with 3.3 million viewers.
In India, Colors #1 broadcast network as Zee TV’s ‘Kumkum Bhagya‘ was the top program week #47 on 11-17 November 2017.
‘Coco‘ #1 at the U.S. box office weekend 8-10 December 2017. Complete box office Top Ten this weekend listed below.
‘Coco‘ #1 at the International box office weekend 8-10 December 2017. Complete box office this weekend listed below.
This Weekend in 1942, ‘Johnny Eager‘ directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Robert Taylor, Lana Turner and Van Heflin. Heflin won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film pulled in 2.586 million in its initial run and had a huge profit of over $1.1 million.
This weekend in 1942, ‘White Christmas‘ Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra was the #1 record. This was the sixth of eleven weeks at #1. It was first seen in Holiday Inn (1942), with Martha Mears (vocal dubbed over the actress Marjorie Reynolds). It was written by Irving Berlin. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. The original recorded version follows:
The latest social media stats include this: Americans spend 25% of their time on social media.YouTube has viewers now watch 1 billion hours of video each day. 85% of digital video viewers will be YouTube viewers as daily usage of YouTube, is estimated the video-sharing platform will reach 185.9 million monthly US users in 2017 Facebook having 2.047 billion monthly users watching 8 billion videos each day. In addition, 81% of all shares come from Facebook. 41% of Millennials use Facebook every day. And, there are now 5 million active advertisers on its platform, up from 4 million in September 2016 and 2 million in February 2015. Instagram has 700 million users of which 250 million are daily users. 88% of Twitter users are on mobile. An average of 500 million tweets are sent every day with 320 million active users. Twitter had 9 million new members sign up in Q1 2017. The Google+1 button is hit 5 billion times per day. 80% of Internet users on Pinterest are female. Eighty-one percent of US consumers use Facebook regularly, compared with Google (79%), Twitter (43%) and Instagram (40%), System1 Research reported.
Pinterest has 110 million monthly active users. LinkedIn has 347 million registered members with 100 million active users. Tumblr has 555 million users and Weibo has 100 million daily users. Skype has 300 milllion active users and there are 1.000 billion users on Whatsapp. With 900 million active users on Facebook Messenger, 60 billion messages are sent via Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp every day, each with over 1 billion daily users. Netflix now has 75 million streaming subscribers. QQ has 853 million active users. WeChat has 697 million active users while QZone has 640 million. Baidu Tieba has 300 million active users while Viber has 249 million. Sina Weibo has 222 million active users while Line has 215 million. Snapchat has 200 million users and 150 million users are active each day, watching 10 billion videos each day. YY has 122 million active users; VKontakte has 100 million active users as does BBM and Telegram.
Twitter Unveils Sweetstorm Share Function. Twitter is introducing a feature that makes the so-called tweetstorm an official part of its service. The new feature is rolling out now (though it may take a few weeks to get to everyone) and it allows users to compose a thread of multiple tweets almost as easily as a single tweet, with a new “+” menu that allows you to link more than one tweet at a time. While tweetstorms have long been popular among power users, Twitterhasn’t always made composing threads easy on its end, despite efforts to make it simpler over the years. Now, not only will Twitter allow you to create tweetstorms right from its app and website, it will make it much easier to view lengthy threads with four or more tweets via a new “show this thread” option that will “unfurl” linked tweets. Twitter confirmed earlier this year that it was testing such a feature, though this is the first time it’s been made available beyond beta testers. As the company points out in a blog post, the update is meant to make threads more approachable to all of Twitter’s users, not just the power users. But outside of that, embracing long threads and tweetstorms is just another sign that the company is increasingly looking for ways to help users move beyond its once rigid 140-character constraint.
Remember, social media marketing isn’t always the tech. It’s the people.
Today, traditional TV still accounts for the lion’s share of video viewing, but online and mobile are where the growth is. When managed together, TV/digital/mobile hold the potential to drive real impact for advertisers—enabling them to maximize the customers they reach and/or reinforce key messaging across screens. After all, ‘It’s all about screens’.
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For Wednesday, December 13, 2017 (Posted on December 14, 2017)
According to Nielsen’s National Television Household Universe Estimates, there are 119.6 million TV homes in the U.S. for the 2017-18 TV season.
CBS #1 broadcast network Wednesday as ‘Survivor’ was the top program.
CBS
The Tiffany Network
8P ‘Survivor’ finished #1 program Wednesday in prime time with an average 8.668 million viewers.
9P ‘Seal Team‘ rerun finished with an average 4.733 million viewers.
10P ‘Criminal Minds‘ rerun finished with an average 4.010 million viewers.
ABC
The Alphabet Network
8P ‘The Goldbergs‘ finished with an average 6.104 million viewers.
830P ‘Speechless‘ finished with an average 4.584 million viewers.
9P ‘Modern Family‘ finished with an average 5.911 million viewers.
930P ‘American Housewife‘ finished with an average 4.824 million viewers.
10P ‘Designated Survivor‘ finished with an average 4.388 million viewers.
NBC
The Peacock Network
8P ‘The Wall‘ rerun finished with an average 3.825 million viewers.
9P ‘The Golden Globes 75th Anniversary‘ finished with an average 4.260 million viewers.
10P ‘The Golden Globes 75th Anniversary‘ finished with an average 4.525 million viewers.
FOX
The Animal Network of Broadcast
8P ‘Empire‘ finished with an average 5.946 million viewers.
9P ‘Star‘ finished with an average 4.160 million viewers.
The CW
The Little Network That Couldn’t …
8P ‘Riverdale’ finished with an average 1.420 million viewers.
9P ‘Dynasty’ finished with an average 721,000 viewers.
For The Record
CBS finished #1 Wednesday in prime time with an average 5.804 million viewers.
FOX finished with an average 5.053 million viewers.
ABC finished with an average 5.033 million viewers.
NBC finished with an average 4.203 million viewers.
The CW finished with an average 1.071 million viewers.
Broadcast (Big Five) Networks finished with an estimated 21.164 million viewers.
Today In Communication History
On this date in 1988, CBS won the exclusive rights to major league baseball’s 1990-94 seasons for $1.1 billion.
Quote Of The Day
‘Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.’
Bob Feller
Disney Buys 21st Century Fox
A deal that would have been unimaginable just a couple months ago has now been finalized:Walt Disney Company announced that it will acquire 21st Century Fox, including Twentieth Century Fox movie and TV studios, most of its cable networks, international assets like Star and Sky and its stake in Hulu for $52.4 billion, per Adweek. The deal will be an all-stock transaction. To complete the integration, stated the New York Times, a legacy-defining task, Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, agreed to renew his contract for a fourth time, delaying retirement from July 2019 to the end of 2021. The deal, according to Deadline, officially valued at $66.1 billion including assumption of debt, will create an entertainment colossus that expands Disney’s footprint in every area. The agreement encompasses Fox’s prolific film and television studios, its FX and National Geographic cable networks, its regional sports networks, its 39 percent stake in U.K. satellite television provider Sky and its international cable networks, including Star India. It also includes one of the most coveted film libraries in the game—something that will be important as Disney pursues its ambitions to become a streaming media giant that challenges Netflix and forges direct relationships with consumers. Disney is already a media and entertainment giant, with ABC, ESPN, Pixar, and the Marvel and Star Wars film franchises in its portfolio, stated the USA Today. Last year, Disney was the first studio to take in more than $7 billion at the box office globally, with films including Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Captain America: Civil War, Finding Dory and live-action film The Jungle Book. Streaming is a market Disney plans to break into in a big way. This year, the company announced two coming services: one, powered by sports programming from ESPN, set to begin next year and another, scheduled for 2019, to be built around movies and TV shows. Disney hopes the Fox television juggernaut can supercharge its ambitions by producing original series for the services and providing access to a catalog of older offerings. Fox would also contribute its stake in Hulu, the streaming service that shows ABC content and original programming like The Handmaid’s Tale, giving Disney a majority share.
Box Office Weekend 1-3 December 2017 Domestic
#1 ‘Coco’ $ 26,114,000 in 3,987 theaters
#2 ‘Justice League’ $ 16,580,000 in 3,820 theaters
#3 ‘Wonder’ $ 12,500,000 in 3,449 theaters
#4 ‘Thor:Ragnarok’ $ 9,659,000 in 3,148 theaters
#5 ‘Daddy’s Home 2’ $ 7,500,000 in 3,403 theaters
#6 ‘Murder Orient Express’$ 6,700,000 in 3,201 theaters
#7 ‘Lady Bird’ $ 4,543,990 in 1,194 theaters
#8 ‘Three Billboards’ $ 4,530,000 in 1,430 theaters
#9 ‘The Star’ $ 4,000,000 in 2,820 theaters
#10’A Bad Mom’s Christmas’$ 3,480,000 in 2,251 theaters
Box Office Weekend 8-10 December 2017 (International)
#1 ‘Coco’ $ 55,300,000 in 35 markets
#2 ‘Justice League’ $ 15,400,000 in 66 markets
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In the UK, Peak time is defined as Early Peak is 17:30 to 20:00 and Late Peak is 20:00 to 23:00.
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ITV #1 broadcast network in the UK Wednesday but BBC One’s ‘The Apprentice’ was the top program and ‘Coronation Street’ was the #1 soap.
ITV
The Independent One finished #1 broadcast network Wednesday in the UK.
7P ‘Emmerdale‘ finished with an average 6.0 million viewers.
730P ‘Coronation Street‘ finished with an average 6.6 million viewers.
8P ‘Gino’s Italian Escape‘ finished with an average 3.7 million viewers.
830P ‘Coronation Street‘
9P ‘Bancroft‘ finished with an average 3.9 million viewers.
BBC One
The Big One
7P ‘The One Show‘
8P ‘Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets‘ finished with an average 2.9 million viewers.
9P ‘The Apprentice‘ finished #1 in the time slot with an average 5.0 million viewers.
BBC Two
The Little Two
7P ‘Celebrity Antiques Road Show‘
8P ‘MasterChef:The Professionals‘
9P ‘Peaky Blinders‘
Channel 4
The Big Four
8P ‘The Secret Life of the Zoo‘
9P ‘The Channel:The World’s Busiest Waterway’
Channel 5
The Viacom Five
7P ‘Police Interceptors’
8P ‘GPs:Behind Closed Doors‘
9P ‘Harrogate: A Yorkshire Christmas‘
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NOTE: While Australian considers Prime Time 6P-Midnight, we use the US prime time system to measure television effectiveness in Australia. Thus 7P-10P is the standard from which this rating is based. Newscasts are considered only as newscasts and not television programs inside or outside of this period except in special periods. The % share is based on the Australian Prime Time 6P-Midnight period.
‘A Current Affair’ top program.
Nine
The First Commercial Network in Australia finished #1 Wednesday evening with an estimated average 483,000 viewers.
7P ‘A Current Affair‘ finished #1 program Wednesday evening with an average 774,000 viewers.
730P ‘The Voice Kids‘ finished with an average 444,000 viewers.
9P ‘Stayin Alive:Grammy Award Salute to the BeeGees‘ finished with an average 396,000 viewers.
Seven
The Second Commercial Network in Australia finished with an estimated average 443,500 viewers.
7P ‘Home and Away‘ finished with an average 556,000 viewers.
830P ‘Gladiator‘ finished with an average 331,000 viewers.
Ten
The CBS Commercial Network in Australia.
7P ‘The Project‘ finished with an average 447,000 viewers.
730P ‘Cram!‘ did not finish in the top 20 program.
830P ‘Law & Order:SVU‘ did not finish in the top 20 program.
930P ‘Madam Secretary‘ did not finish in the top 20 program.
ABC
The Alphabet Network in Australia.
730P ‘7.30‘ finished with an average 557,000 viewers.
802P ‘QI‘ finished with an average 412,000 viewers.
832P ‘Rosehaven‘ finished with an average 414,000 viewers.
9P ‘The Best of Sammy J‘ did not finish in the top 20 program.
930P ‘Adam Hills:The Last Leg‘ did not finish in the top 20 program.
SBS
The Special Broadcast Service in Australia.
730P ‘Operation Gold with Dan Snow‘ did not finish in the top 20 program.
830P ‘Alcatraz:Escaping The Rock‘ did not finish in the top 20 program.
935P ‘Vikings‘ did not finish in the top 20 program.
Top Newscasts In Australia
#1 ‘Seven News’ Seven 889,000 viewers #1 in Adelaide & Perth
#2 ‘Seven New/TT’ Seven 884,000 viewers #1 in Brisbane
#3 ‘Nine News 6.30’ Nine 794,000 viewers #1T in Melbourne
#4 ‘Nine News’ Nine 788,000 viewers #1 in Sydney & #1T in Melbourne
#5 ‘ABC News’ ABC 647,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#6 ‘Eyewitness News’Ten 465,000 viewers Melbourne top market
THURSDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS
Thursday Australian Overnight TV Ratings
THURSDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS
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NOTE: While Australian considers Prime Time 6P-Midnight, we use the US prime time system to measure television effectiveness in Australia. Thus 7P-10P is the standard from which this rating is based. Newscasts are considered only as newscasts and not television programs inside or outside of this period except in special periods. The % share is based on the Australian Prime Time 6P-Midnight period.
Nine #1 broadcast network in Australia Thursday as ‘The Ashes’ was the top program and ‘Nine News’ was the #1 newscast in the nation.
Nine
The First Commercial Network in Australia finished #1 Thursday evening with an estimated average 838,333 viewers.
630P ‘The Ashes:Third Test-Australia V England‘ finished #1 program Thursday evening with an average 980,000 viewers.
9P ‘Forged In Fire‘ finished with an average 555,000 viewers.
Seven
The Second Commercial Network in Australia finished with an estimated average 469,667 viewers.
7P ‘Home and Away‘ finished with an average 569,000 viewers.
830P ‘World’s Deadliest Weather: Caught On Camera‘ finished with an average 418,000 viewers.
930P ‘The Grand Tour‘ finished with an average 275,000 viewers.
Ten
The CBS Commercial Network in Australia finished with a % share.
7P ‘The Project‘ finished with an average 368,000 viewers.
730P ‘Cram!‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
830P ‘Law & Order:SVU‘ (‘Intimidation Game’) finished with an average 278,000 viewers.
930P ‘Law & Order:SVU‘ (‘Undercover Mother’) did not finish in the top 20 programs.
ABC
The Alphabet Network in Australia finished with a % share.
730P ‘7.30‘ finished with an average 407,000 viewers.
801P ‘Would I Lie To You?‘ finished with an average 336,000 viewers.
832P ‘Call The Midwife‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
932P ‘Mary Berry’s Absolute Christmas Favourites‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
SBS
The Special Broadcast Service in Australia finished with a % share.
730P ‘Great British Railway Journeys‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
805P ‘Food Safari Earth‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
835P ‘River Cottage Australia‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
935P ‘Chance‘ did not finish in the top 20 programs.
Top Newscasts In Australia
Nine News Nine 964,000 viewers #1 in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane
Seven News/TT Seven 926,000 viewers Melbourne top market
Seven News Seven 863,000 viewers #1 in Adelaide & Perth
ABC News ABC 590,000 viewers Melbourne top market
Eyewitness News Ten 351,000 viewers Sydney top market
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