2017 saw our nation’s three major sports leagues — NBA, NFL and MLB — become the top ratings focus on television. A major sport of generations ago (boxing) sparked a slight increased interest on cable. And the female sides of tennis and golf resulted in solid showings for their respective events. Here are the top […]
CBS and NBC shared leadership on this Tuesday night — CBS among total viewers, NBC among all key adult demos. ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary entitled “Nature Boy” about legendary professional wrestler Ric Flair was television’s top telecast among males 18-34 (1.06 rating), narrowly besting runner-up NBC’s “This Is Us” (1.0 rating) within the demo. […]
Despite an atypical Tuesday evening with a multi-network telethon airing in the 8-9 p.m. hour, NBC still was tops overall with “America’s Got Talent”. NBC was also the top network that carried the “Hand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief”, followed by CBS, then ABC and Fox — a combined 15.64 million viewers on […]
Another live eviction episode of “Big Brother 19” helped CBS win Thursday night among total viewers (4.75 million), adults 18-49 (1.2 rating/5 share), adults 18-34 (0.8/4) and adults 25-54 (1.5/5). With multi-network coverage of O.J. Simpson that harkens back to his double-murder trial in 1994-95, his hearing from Nevada to earn parole after a nine-year […]
A best-of auditions special of “America’s Got Talent” lifted NBC to win Thursday night in total viewers (5.85 million). With “Big Brother 19,” CBS remained the demos leader among adults 18-49 (1.5 rating/5 share), adults 18-34 (0.7/4) and adults 25-54 (1.5/5). The hourlong mid-season premiere of the sixth season of truTV’s “Impractical Jokers” was cable’s […]
NBC, with the season finale of “Little Big Shots”, was Wednesday night’s most-watched network with an average of 4.09 million viewers. The duo of Gordon Ramsay shows “MasterChef” and “The F Word” put Fox on top among all key demos: 1.0 rating/4 share in adults 18-49, a 0.6 rating/4 share in adults 18-34 and a […]
NBC topped Tuesday night yet again in total viewers (11.15 million), adults 18-49 (2.4 rating/10 share), adults 18-34 (1.5/8), and adults 25-54 (3.0/11). “America’s Got Talent” reached another season-high in total viewers (second week in a row), gaining one percent from the previous week (12.70 million vs. 12.53 million). Runner-up to NBC among adults 18-49 […]
CBS won Saturday night overall with its rebroadcasts of holiday programs — “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman,” and “Frosty Returns” — and an original edition of “48 Hours.” Their prime time lineup benefited from the late afternoon event, the annual “Army-Navy” college football game which drew 7.94 million viewers, up 11 percent from […]
“2016 World Series” Game 6 between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians Tuesday night, registered a 13.3/23 household rating/share with 23.4 million viewers on the Fox broadcast network, earning the best viewership figures for a World Series Game 6 since 1997’s 23.7 million (on NBC) when the Florida Marlins faced the Indians, according to […]
