While special events are doing very well for broadcasters — capped off by an Oscars telecast that was the most-watched entertainment program in five years — their day-to-day schedules are hurting. The Nielsen Co. said Tuesday that 41.7 million people watched the Academy Awards on ABC on Sunday ...

Television ratings for the Academy Awards surged to their highest level in five years, figures showed Monday, likely boosted by the inclusion of box office giant "Avatar" in the best picture race. Figures from the Nielsen media research company reported that an average of 41.3 million viewers watched Sunday's show at the Kodak Theater, a remarkable 14 percent ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Avatar" may have failed to repeat the Academy Award success for "Titanic," but James Cameron's latest hit film proved once again: nothing draws eyeballs to the Oscars like the nomination of a blockbuster. Sunday night's Oscars drew 41.3 million U.S. viewers, up 5 million from last year and the biggest audience for the ...

Argentina erupted with joy Monday on news that its film "El Secreto de Sus Ojos" ("The Secret in Their Eyes") came away with the Oscar for best foreign language film. "This is a historic moment," veteran actor Guillermo Francella, a member of the film's cast, said in a television interview after the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood handed Argentina ...