CBS and Fox shared Wednesday prime time leadership — CBS among total viewers and adults 25-54 (1.9 rating/6 share), Fox among adults 18-49 and adults 18-34 (1.2/6). A special Wednesday episode of “The Voice” equaled NBC’s highest in-season (excluding summer) adults 18-49 rating in the timeslot since March 15 (1.7) and its top in-season total-viewer […]
ABC finished a dominant #1 on Wednesday night, winning all six half-hours of the night in total viewers and adults 18-49 by featuring its broadcast of “The 51st Annual CMA Awards”. The CMA Awards grew by double digits year over year with total viewers (+14 percent -14.3 million vs. 12.5 million) and adults 18-49 (+10 […]
NBC was Wednesday night’s top network among total viewers (6.14 million), adults 18-49 (1.3 rating/5 share) and adults 25-54 (1.7/6). Fox led the night among adults 18-34 (0.8/4). The twenty-first season premiere of Comedy Central’s animated “South Park” led all of cable for the night among all key adult and male demos. Compared to the […]
NBC led Wednesday night among total viewers (6.36 million), adults 18-49 (1.3 rating/5 share) and adults 25-54 (1.7/6). Fox led the night among adults 18-34 (0.9/5). Headlined by a quarterfinal match between Roger Federer and Juan Martin Del Potro, “U.S. Open Tennis” on ESPN in prime time (1.96 million viewers) was up an impressive 60 […]
The Week 12 “Monday Night Football” game – a Green Bay Packers 27-13 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles – helped ESPN win the night among all networks (broadcast or cable) in households, viewers and all key male and adult demos (18-34, 18-49 and 25-54). (Source: ESPN) Including this game, ESPN has won the night among […]
ESPN led Monday night overall with the Houston Texans versus the Oakland Raiders in Mexico City on “Monday Night Football.” The game delivered the best “MNF” ratings since Giants-Vikings from Oct. 3. Nonetheless, it still fell way below year-ago levels: compared to Buffalo-New England from 11/23/15, Houston-Oakland was down 22 percent in households (6.93 rating […]
ESPN continued its Monday night winning streak among total viewers (approx. 10 million viewers from 8-11 p.m.) and all key demos with the Cincinnati Bengals at the New York Giants on “Monday Night Football.” Despite the highly-competitive nature of the game, it still fell below year-ago levels: compared to Houston-Cincinnati from 11/16/15, Cincinnati-N.Y. Giants was […]
ESPN again won Monday night in total viewers and all key demos with Buffalo Bills-Seattle Seahawks on “Monday Night Football.” The timely Election Eve comedy special “SNL Election Special” on NBC easily defeated its 10 p.m. competition on ABC and NBC and well retained its “The Voice” lead-in: 80 percent in viewers (8.022 million from […]
It was All Hallows’ Eve but ESPN remained as Monday’s top network overall with “Monday Night Football” featuring the Minnesota Vikings and the Chicago Bears (6.38 U.S. household rating, 10.476 million viewers). While the holiday normally depresses the viewer levels, the game yet again marked a year-to-year decrease for “MNF”: compared to Indianapolis-Carolina on 11/02/15 […]
