Preliminary estimates show that viewership for the first night of the Democrats’ virtual convention was down compared with the opening of Hillary Clinton’s nominating party four years ago.
An estimated 18.7 million people watched coverage between 10 and 11 p.m. on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, the Nielsen company said. Four years ago, opening night drew just under 26 million viewers.
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Sumner Redstone, who joined his family’s drive-in movie chain in the 1950s and used it to build a vast media empire that included CBS and Viacom, has died. He was 97.
Under his watch, Viacom became one of the nation’s media titans, home to pay TV channels MTV and Comedy Central and movie studio Paramount Pictures. ViacomCBS Inc., which he led for decades, remembered Redstone for his “unparalleled passion to win, his endless intellectual curiosity and his complete dedication to the company.”
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday where she said that she’s only controversial because “people seem to want the controversy.”
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The CBS weekly show 60 Minutes recently discovered a drug route leading into Ohio. The CBS team found that fentanyl plants in Shanghai have been trafficking their product through Akron. Guanghua Zheng, a free citizen of Shanghai, is a wanted man in America. Zheng illegally imported fentanyl and other…
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An old video from 1994 that surfaced online this week shows just how dramatically the Democratic Party has changed its position on immigration in just 23 years. The video shows a segment on immigration from the CBS News show “Face the Nation” from that year, with a younger Sen. Dianne…
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Kerri Medders is an artist with High School Nation, an organization that promotes music and arts in schools.
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“Stark Trek” fans who tune in for CBS All Access’ addition to the popular franchise can expect science fiction fare inspired by the election of President Trump. A new band of heroes will tackle the “final frontier” this month when “Star Trek: Discovery” premiers, but the show’s executives said the…
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Walter (Elyes Gabel) and Paige (Katharine McPhee) will have at least one awkward encounter in “Scorpion” Season 3, episode 14. In the sneak peek released by CBS (via Spoilers Guide) for “The Hole Truth,” Walter expresses his disappointment over the incompetent city workers. When Toby (Eddie Kaye Thomas) asks him…
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