Celebrity Big Brother drew to a disappointing close ratings-wise on Friday with the final, which saw presenter Ulrika Jonsson win, peaking at 3.8 million viewers for the 15 minutes from 10.15pm.
For simplicity, we shall condense two factors that can be used for this objective: the set of common rated movies, and how close the ratings are.
It came to an abrupt close when ratings fell and personalities clashed.
This week, in an effort to further close the ratings gap of many years between the two shows, "GMA" brought in the former "Today" star Katie Couric as a guest host, a move that "Today" countered with a widely publicized appearance by Sarah Palin as guest host on Tuesday.
To try to close the ratings gap of many years between the two programs, "Good Morning America" brought in the former "Today" star Katie Couric as a guest host, a move that "Today" countered with a widely publicized appearance by Sarah Palin as guest host on Tuesday.
ABC News hopes that its anchor shakeup will help close its ratings gap with NBC News, but new faces are not necessarily a guarantee of success: the anointment of Katie Couric as the first solo female network anchor has not budged CBS's evening news out of a distant third place.
Yet despite the close finish ratings were off 55% from the previous year, when Woods took the title.
This paper shows that the test results were very stable over the different assessment procedures, but that some of them enabled, under certain conditions, to separate between systems obtaining very close quality ratings.
Also, "GMA" continued to close the ratings gap with "Today".
After the markets closed, Fitch Ratings warned that it might downgrade the government's AAA bond rating.
