In the 18- to 49-year-old demographic highly favored by advertisers, ABC, CBS and NBC each recorded double-digit declines, while Fox showed a slight uptick of 2percentt over last year, according to Nielsen Media Research.
That is a slight uptick from 2009, when the over-50 audience bought 19 percent of the total tickets sold.
There has also been a slight uptick in contract prices over the past five months.
Interestingly, text messaging has had a slight uptick in its usage over last year — showing that some legacy services have a lot of staying power; a full 75% of all mobile consumers sent SMS messages last quarter.
At least three N.H.L. players have sustained concussions this season as a result of fighting, and Commissioner Gary Bettman has acknowledged that concussions from fighting are one reason for a slight uptick in reported brain injuries this year over years past.
It's not clear if the FBI will define these deaths as "felonious killings," or in other words intentional killings, but the data does suggest there will be a slight uptick in line-of-duty deaths over last year.
In the healthcare sector, stent makers may see a slight uptick Tuesday on after a study published over the weekend suggested that drug-eluting stents made by medical device makers such as Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific may not lead to an increased risk of blood clots.
The most recent Index of Entrepreneurial Activity by the Kauffman Foundation showed a slight uptick of new businesses in 2008 — a full recessionary year — over 2007.
"Women just said, 'Never mind, I'll get a surgical abortion.' " In Ohio, as elsewhere, abortions have declined over all in recent years, although there was a slight uptick to 25,473 reported procedures in 2012, with black women accounting for a growing share.
