Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Moves to ABC from HBO, Numbers Up 9 Times, Ties with “America’s Got Talent”

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame special on ABC was a hit.

The show, moving to broadcast TV for the first time, had 3 million viewers. This up nine times the 420,000 they got last year on HBO. I guess there are a lot of lessons learned.

One is that “RRHOF” didn’t really win the night. They tied with “America’s Got Talent” on NBC.

The Rock Hall escaped scandal this year by ousting Jann Wenner from their board after he said terrible things in the NY Times.

The good news is they are trying to get more backlogged, snubbed artists into the Hall. We just have to hope they keep it up.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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