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Fitch Ratings raised its outlook for Bon-Ton Stores Inc. on Friday from "Negative" to "Stable," citing the department store operator's reworked credit agreement.
Moody's Investors Service issued a negative opinion on the pharmaceutical industry Thursday, saying drugmaker credit ratings will be under pressure until early 2012 because they won't be able to fully replace revenue from best-sellers that go off-patent.
The life insurance subsidiaries of The Phoenix Companies Inc. received a ratings downgrade on Monday by Fitch Ratings.
Fitch Ratings warned Thursday that Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s deal for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. could overexpose Warren Buffett's company to weaknesses in the economy at the expense of its more durable investments.
A day after drugmaker Merck & Co. completed its $41.1 billion purchase of rival Schering-Plough Corp., Fitch Ratings Service on Wednesday cut its ratings on Merck and upgraded Schering-Plough.
Brett Favre's return to Green Bay was must-see viewing for NFL fans.
Fitch Ratings on Monday reaffirmed automotive parts supplier Johnson Controls Inc.'s investment grade default and long-term ratings and raised its ratings outlook to Stable from Negative.
World Series television ratings bounced back from last year's record lows.
Credit-ratings agency Moody's said Thursday it upgraded a rating for Dole Food Co., one of the world's largest fruit and vegetable producers, and changed its outlook to positive following the company's initial public offering.
The Vikings-Steelers and Falcons-Cowboys games combined to help draw record television ratings last Sunday.
The doubleheader featuring title contenders Boston, Cleveland and the Los Angeles Lakers produced Turner's most-watched opening night in its 26 years of airing the NBA.
Sports fans in New York overwhelmingly chose to watch a decisive baseball playoff game over a regular-season football matchup Sunday night.
Fitch Ratings on Friday raised the credit rating outlook for Seagate Technology and its subsidiaries after the company turned in an improved first-quarter performance.
Fitch Ratings on Tuesday affirmed its debt ratings on Invesco Ltd. after the investment manager announced Monday that it would buy Morgan Stanley's retail asset management unit.
Standard & Poor's downgraded Southwest Airlines Co. one notch on Wednesday, citing lower demand for travel and weak pricing that have cut into the company's earnings and cash flow.
Television ratings for baseball's division series were up from last season.
Television viewership was up for the WNBA playoffs this season.
The Twins are quite a baseball team. So are the Rockies, the Phillies and the Angels. If baseball’s fondest wishes were granted, none of them will get to the World Series.
Brett Favre's matchup with his former team has attracted the largest cable television audience ever.
Television ratings for NFL games are off to a strong start this season.
NBC Sports says the Tour Championship earned a 3.3 overnight rating, an 83 percent increase from a year ago when Tiger Woods wasn't playing and the FedEx Cup had already been decided.
Neil Patrick Harris did for the Emmy Awards what he did for the Tonys earlier this year: increase the award show's audience over the previous year.
California's attorney general said Thursday his office is investigating Wall Street's big credit rating agencies to determine what role they may have played in the collapse of the financial markets.
Pittsburgh's 13-10 overtime victory against Tennessee on Thursday night drew the biggest TV audience for the NFL's season opener in seven years.
Standard & Poor's on Wednesday lowered the rating on some of Continental Airlines Inc.'s debt to a lower degree of junk status, citing declining aircraft values.
Scooby Doo too violent for kids?Cartoons should be given movie-style age ratings to protect children from the violence shown in programmes such as Scooby Doo and Batman, a child safety expert has warned.
'V': The invasion begins with big ratingsThe ABC series debuted to better than 14 million viewers -- more than all but one new show this season -- and delivered the best adults 18-49 numbers for any series premiere this fall.
CNN Closes Out October…Off The List Of Top 30 Cable ChannelsNo wonder the White House hates Fox News. They are #3 out of all cable channels in popularity. The all Obama all the time MSNBC is #26th and CNN has dropped out of the top 30 cable stations. CNN needs to watch out. The Lifetime and Hallmark Channels are running all over them.
TV report on breast self-exams bares allTV news reports about breast-cancer detection and treatment are common, though usually discreet, with female breasts typically depicted only in X-rays or tastefully draped.
CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News NetworksCNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth – and last – among the cable news networks with the audience that all the networks rely on for their advertising.
Big flops and breakout hits are equally rare on TV this fallFive weeks into the new TV season, it's clear that few new shows are tanking in the ratings. But breakout hits are elusive, too.
The Ratings MirageWell I thought this was pretty entertaining. Fox has higher ratings but CNN has more viewers.
Is NBC Dead?Just a couple weeks into the fall television season, the prognosis is not looking good for NBC.
Gloria's rhetoric & the reality of Filipinos' distrust of her[Manila, Philippines] This year's upcoming State of the Nation Address (Sona) will be President Gloria Arroyo's last, before she steps down in 2010.
'Dollhouse' returns to bottom; 'Brothers' matchesThe second season premiere of Fox's "Dollhouse" was down sharply in the ratings compared to its series opener and resumed about where the show left off -- as Friday's lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.
Monday ratings breakdown: 'House' afire, 'Heroes' up in smokeThe official opening of the 2009-10 TV season brought a ton of viewers back to the broadcast networks and kicked off what is likely to be an intensely competitive fall.
YouTube Comes To A 5-Star Realization: Its Ratings Are UselessOf course, anyone who has used YouTube for an extended period of time will already know this. And really, the same seems to be true of basically all 1 to 5 star crowd rating systems.
The Scoreboard: Friday, September 18Total Viewers: (L +SD) Total day: FNC: 1724 | CNN: 579 | MSNBC: 416 | HLN: 299
Regarding Fox News ratings. I want to see what they'll say next. Memorable quotes for Private Parts (1997)
Jay Leno's ratings drop notably for second episode--The Hollywood Reporter | The Live FeedFor its second episode, "The Jay Leno Show" audience fell 40% in viewers and 36% in the demo from its Monday night debut. That's a bigger drop than the second night of Conan O'Brien hosting :The Tonight Show" last June.
The Death of the Nielsen System?Let's face it; Nielsen ratings just don't accurately reflect television viewing.
99.9 % common sense[Manila, Philippines]Some people cannot simply get over the "luck" former President Joseph Estrada is getting these past few days.
AUGUST '09 (LIVE+SD) FINAL Competitive Program AnalysisNETWORK PROGRAM NAME DAYS TIME COV AA% AA (000) AA (000) AA (000) #Tlc FOXN THE OREILLY FACTOR MTWTF_— 06:00A -11:00P 2.6 2546 3381 861 24 FOXN HANNITY MTWTF_— 06:00A -11:00P 2.1 2021 2649 719 23 FOXN GLENN BECK MTWTF_— 06:00A -11:00P 1.9 1854 2353 620 25 FOXN ON THE RECORD W …
Big Beck: Goes over 3 million viewers, beats O'Reilly in demo: TV Ratings, Nielsen Ratings, Television Show RatingsThough a little scandal might alienate advertisers, it's pure ratings gold. Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O'Reilly for the night. But, Beck had more 25-54 viewers than O'Reilly (888K to 876K).
Credit jitters spread to student loan marketCredit-market tremors - like the ones linked to the housing crisis - are beginning to show up in the $85 billion student-loan market.
Weekly Tracking Poll: Impatient Base Drives Democrats DownDemocratic leaders have taken a hit in their approval ratings while GOPers have actually gained approval points.
What's Bad for the GOP Is Good for Fox News - Fox News -Fox News posted an astonishing 50% jump in profit last quarter amid a disastrous advertising recession, and it's basically the only thing making money in Rupert Murdoch's empire. Why? Because the GOP has cratered.
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - CNN Poll: Obama approval drops 10 points over last 100 days « - Blogs from CNN.com"As President Barack Obama approaches 200 days in the White House, a new national poll suggests his approval rating has dropped seven points since the 100-day mark in April.
What Are the Birthers Really After? On Aug. 4, President Barack Obama celebrated the anniversary of his birth, an event that occurred 48 years ago in the state of Hawaii. This is an indisputable fact, as sane critics on the right, such as the editors of the National Review and even Patrick Buchanan, acknowledge.
Fox's Juan Williams Charges Fox's Glenn Beck With GrandstandingThat Is Not Connected To Realityexcerpt: ""Yesterday, Fox News pundit Juan Williams was a guest on C-Span's In Depth program.
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