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NBC may have talent, but CBS has virtually everything else that prime-time viewers are interested in these days.

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by the Nielsen Co. for May 16-22. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.

Keith Olbermann was MSNBC's most popular personality and single-handedly led its transformation to an outspoken, left-leaning cable news network in prime time.

Despite that, he often seemed to be walking on a tightrope with his job. Friday night, it snapped.

While looking through the past couple of weeks of prime time cable news ratings, I noticed something interesting.

Keith Olbermann's Countdown is no longer the dominate show on the network. Olbermann's program is being challenged for in house supremacy by The Rachel Maddow Show.

Maddow has been running neck and neck with or defeating Countdown on a regular basis.

Our crystal ball says: Washington to get tough with the media industry, Jay Leno will leave prime time; MGM will finally be sold; Disney will discover video games; and maybe somebody will figure out how to make money on online content.

NBC on Sunday confirmed its plan to airlift "The Jay Leno Show" out of prime time next month and return it to the safety of late night, with NBC Universal TV boss Jeff Gaspin saying the network no longer could ignore affiliates' complaints about how its experiment was costing them money.

Research has shown that obscenities are being used more often, and in earlier hours, on prime-time broadcast television.

Prime-time newcomer Jay Leno says he would have rather stayed put at "The Tonight Show" — and if NBC offered him that job again, he'd take it.

Legally Blonde, Overboard, as well as four films from the MGM James Bond collection, are among...

Jay Leno's bid for prime-time triumph next season will be backed by nurses, paramedics and filmmaker Ron Howard.