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12.24.10

Good morning. It’s Friday, December 24, 2010, and this is your first early morning briefing. As always, if you prefer to watch this morning’s news instead of reading it, click here . 

Premieres & Finales December 25, 2010  –  January 2, 2011:
December 25 Finale:
Lifetime: The Fairy Jobmother at 11p

December 27 Premieres:
truTV: Bait Car at 8p; All Worked Up at 10p

December 27 Finale:
ESPN: Monday Night Football at 830p

December 28 Premiere:
truTV: Hardcore Pawn at 10p

December 29 Premieres:
MTV: I Used to Be Fat at 10p
TLC: My Strange Addiction at 9p; Toddlers & Tiaras at 10p

January 1 Specials:
HGTV: Rose Parade 2011 at 11a; HGTV Dream Home 2011 at 1p
PBS: Great Performances from Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2011 at 830p

January 1 Premieres:
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network Launch with the following programs:
Oprah Presents OWN at 12p; Sneak Peak: Kidnapped By The Kids at 1p; The Road to Your OWN Show at 2p; Sneak Peak: Enough Already with Peter Walsh at 3p; Sneak Peak: Searching For . . . at 4p; Sneak Peak: Miracle Detectives at 5p; Sneak Peak: Oprah Presents Master Class at 7p; Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes (Episode 1) at 8p; Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes (Episode 2) at 9p
HGTV: Candice Tells All at 8p; Dear Genevieve at 830p
BBC America: Primeval at 9p

January 2 Premieres:
Cooking Channel: The Minimalist at 1030a
OWN: Ask Oprah’s All-Stars at 8p; Oprah Presents Master Class at 10p
Food Network: Worst Cooks In America at 9p
WE tv: My Fair Wedding with David Tutera at 9p; Rich Bride, Poor Bride at 10p

January 2 Finales:
NBC: Football Night in America at 7p; Sunday Night Football at 815p
A&E Network: Gene Simmons Family Jewels at 9p & 930p

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski signaled yesterday the Comcast/NBC Universal joint venture is in the public interest even though the agency is layering in various conditions to the deal. Genachowski presented the Comcast/NBCU order to the other FCC commissioners yesterday spelling out the imposed conditions in the areas of program access, program carriage, online access, broadcast competition and diversity, localism and other similar issues. The FCC is not saying how long these conditions would be kept in place. The commissioners will now have up to four weeks to vote on the order or they could take a more immediate approach. Though given the holiday time period and the enormity of the deal, the commissioners are expected to take some time to review before voting. The Department of Justice is working closely with the FCC and it is not expected to make any moves right away, including blocking the deal, until the FCC casts its vote. Overall, the deal will likely close sometime in January once full approval has been granted.

Tri-state viewers of New York’s Channel 11, can once again tune into WPIX on Christmas morning and watch the classic film loop The Yule Log in its 44th annual year. PIX11 will air The Yule Log, available in hi-def from 9a to 1p this Saturday. Fans of The Yule Log (count me among them!) can download wallpaper and a portable “Log” at www.wpix.com/yulelog and viewers can also follow the Yule Log on Twitter at @PIXYULELOG and become a Facebook fan.

Spike TV’s frosh season finale of its original series Auction Hunters on Tuesday at 10p attracted 2.1 million total viewers. This concluding episode now reigns as the most-watched episode of any Spike TV original this year. Throughout its first season, Auction Hunters averaged 1.4 million total viewers and netted a median age of 40 years old, which fits in with Spike TV’s new programming goal of broadening and attracting older guys. The second season of Auction Hunters commences production in January and is slated to premiere in the spring. Gurney Productions produces the series.

Fred Foy, whose voice was the narrator and announcer of the Lone Ranger radio and television show for about a decade, died on Wednesday at his home in Woburn, Mass. He was 89. Mr. Foy was not the first Lone Ranger announcer/narrator though he was the last and certainly the best known, from when he joined the radio show in the late 1940s to when the television show signed off in the late 1950s. Mr. Foy was also the radio announcer for other radio shows including The Green Hornet and Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. He later worked in television and became the staff announcer for ABC in New York, working on The Dick Cavett Show. Mr. Foy was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2000. According to his daughter, Nancy Foy, Mr. Foy was proud of his work on the Lone Ranger show and until the end of his life, he would recite the famous introduction to anyone who asked. In addition to his daughter, Nancy, Mr. Foy is survived by his wife, Frances, another daughter, Wendy; a son, Fritz, and three grandchildren.

And a couple of year ending Top Tens, courtesy of Nielsen …

Top 10 TV Programs – Single Telecast (From 1/1-11/28/10)
                                             Date Aired           Total Persons Rtg.
CBS   Super Bowl XLIV                   2/7/10                      36.5
CBS   Super Bowl XLIV Post Game   2/7/10                      25.8
CBS   Super Bowl Kick-Off              2/7/10                      20.8
FOX   FOX NBC Championship         1/24/10                    19.8
CBS   AFC Championship on CBS     1/24/10                    16.1
ABC   Academy Awards                   3/7/10                     14.3
CBS   Undercover Boss                   2/7/10                      13.2
FOX   FOX NFC Playoff-Sun             1/17/10                    12.9
CBS   AFC Divisional Playoff-Sun     1/17/10                    12.2
FOX   FOX NFC Wildcard Game       1/10/10                     11.8
Source: Nielsen. Top Telecasts: Data from January 1, 2010  November 28, 2010. Persons 2+ Ratings include Live and Same Day timeshifted viewing and excludes telecasts under 5 minutes.

Top 10 TV Programs – Regularly Scheduled Primetime (From 1/1-11/28/10)
                                               Total Persons Rtg.
FOX   American Idol  Tuesday                  7.9
FOX   American Idol  Wednesday              7.5
ABC   Dancing with the Stars                     7.1
NBC   NBC Sunday Night Football               7.0
ABC   Dancing with the Stars Results          5.5
NBC   Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick               5.3
CBS    NCIS                                              5.0
ESPN  NFL Regular Season L                      4.9
CBS   Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains             4.3
CBS   NCIS: Los Angeles                           4.2
CBS   Two and a Half Men                             4.2                            
Source: Nielsen. Top Primetime programs: Data from January 1, 2010  November 28, 2010, regularly scheduled programs. Persons 2+ Ratings include Live and Same Day timeshifted viewing and excludes programs with less than 4 telecasts and programs under 5 minutes.

Program Call: Cynopsis Media will be producing our annual NATPE Shopping Guide sent to all Cynopsis and Cynopsis Kids subscribers on Thursday, January 20, the week before NATPE 2011 in Miami.  If you would like to have your programming included, please send us only the following info for your top 5 shows: title, availability date, number of episodes, length, type (i.e., movie, series, special, etc.), genre and your terms (barter, cash, etc.) as well as your company’s stand/booth location.  To be included in this free and highly-viewed special edition, please send your submission to [email protected] no later than Friday, January 14, 2011. A confirmation email will be sent following each submission from Lisa (if you don’t receive a confirmation email, please resubmit).

Broadcast Morning News Shows – Weekly Average Ratings (week of December 13, 2010)
NBC: Today 5.83 million total viewers; 2.2/16 and 2.77 million A25-54
ABC: GMA 4.96 million total viewers; 1.6/11 and 1.95 million A25-54
CBS: Early Show 3.03 million total viewers; 1.0/7 and 1.22 million A25-54
Source: Nielsen, NTI

Wednesday A18-49 Analysis:  Univision bested the competition Wednesday night at 1.8/6 among A18-49, according to final national ratings from Nielsen. At 8p, a tie occurred between the average of ABC’s repeat comedies The Middle and Better With You and Univision’s Eva Luna at 1.5/5 each followed closely by FOX’s Human Target in second place with 1.4/5. Univision’s Soy Tu Duena scored the highest ratings during the 9p hour at 2.7/8 and FOX’s Million Dollar Money Drop was #2 at 1.6/5. Then at 10p, NBC had a turn in the winner’s seat with a Law & Order: SVU encore at 1.7/5 and Univision cleared second place with Don Francisco Presenta at 1.3/4.

Live + Same Day Household Ratings: Wednesday, December 22, 2010  time period averages. Source: NTI Galaxy, as dated. Live+SD.

CBS: 3.5/6       A Home for the Holidays: 12th Annual 2.6/5, Criminal Minds [r] 4.4/7, The Defenders [r] 3.6/6

NBC: 3.4/6        Undercovers 2.6/5, Law & Order: SVU [r] 3.2/6, Law & Order: SVU [r] 4.3/8

ABC: 3.2/6         The Middle [r] 3.8/7, Better With You [r] 3.2/6, Modern Family [r] 3.8/6, CMA Country Christmas [r] 2.8/5

FOX: 3.1/5         Human Target 3.4/6, Million Dollar Money Drop 2.8/5

UNIV: 2.2/4       Eva Luna 1.8/3, Soy Tu Duena 3.0/5, Don Francisco Presenta 1.8/3

ION: 1.0/2         Without a Trace 1.0/2, Without a Trace 0.9/2, Criminal Minds 1.0/2

CW: 0.8/1          Hellcats [r] 0.8/1, Hellcats [r] 0.7/1

TELE: 0.5/1        Aurora 0.6/1, Fantasma de Elena 0.5/1, Alguien Te Mira 0.4/1

TF: 0.3/1           Cine de Las Estrellas 0.3/0, India 0.4/1

A18-49: UNIV 1.8/6, FOX 1.5/5, ABC 1.3/4, NBC 1.3/4, CBS 1.1/3, CW 0.6/2, ION 0.4/1, TELE 0.4/1, TF 0.2/1

 
Friday Fun Fact: In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year’s Day.

This day in History:  1948 – For the first time ever, a midnight Mass was broadcast on television. It was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.

Answer to Yesterday’s Trivia Question:  What promiscuous sitcom character said, “Well, I can’t help it! There’s something about a man in a Santa Claus suit that just drives me wild!”  BLANCHE DEVEREAUX on THE GOLDEN GIRLS  Kudos to: Ken Nice-Yoh/Silver Spring; Anne Devereaux Vega/NY; Matt Meachem-Tribune Media Services/NY; Debra Haut-AdServices/Hollywood FL; Peggy Dalland-KTTC/Rochester; Jennifer Beshires-KVUE/Austin; Linda Wooldridge-RoviCorp/Tulsa; Heidi Cayn Friedman-TV Production Guru/LA; Kate Edwards-Grand View Management/LA; Scott Seomin-FX/LA; Marion Corday-CBS TV Distribution/Santa Monica;

No Trivia Question today … Cynopsis is now off for the holidays, back and in your in-box on Monday, January 3, 2011.  Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a very Happy and Healthy New Year!

Later — Cyn
12.24.10

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WHAT’S ON TONIGHT –  FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2010

ABC:   Disney Prep & Landing [r], Phineas and Ferb [r],  Movie: The Santa Clause 2
AZTECA:  Cosas de la Vida, Al Extremo, La Loba
CBS:  CSI [r], CSI: NY [r],  Blue Bloods [r]
CW:   Smallville [r], Supernatural [r]
FOX:  Movie:  Are We There Yet?
ION:  Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds
NBC:  Movie:  It’s a Wonderful Life
PBS:  Washington Week, Need to Know, Christmas at Concordia: Journey to Bethlehem [r]
TELE: El Senor Doctor, El Extra
UNIV: Jesus, el Nino Dios, Premio Lo Nuestro

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