What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night’s top original cable telecasts on Thursday, November 23 (with the night’s cable ranks according to total viewers and adults 18-49 in parentheses): Soul Train: 30th Anniversary (BET, 10:00 PM, 60 min.) – 0.369 million viewers (#77) – 0.11 A18-49 (#88) College Football […]
The game was a blowout — Pittsburgh Steelers defeating the Tennessee Titans 40-17 — but NFL Network’s “Thursday Night Football” was still the night’s top attraction and led its simulcast partner NBC to easily win Thursday prime time. The telecast emphasized its aerial views (from directly above the field, behind the players) for its game […]
Although it ranked behind all but one of CBS’ simulcasts, NBC’s season premiere of NFL Network’s “Thursday Night Football” — featuring the Seattle Seahawks at Arizona Cardinals — still far outpaced its broadcast competition and led NBC to win Thursday prime time overall. Top markets for Seahawks-Cardinals on NBC / NFLN: Seattle 38.9/61; Phoenix 21.6/37; […]
Fox dominated this Halloween Tuesday night with Game 6 of the “2017 World Series” between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Game 6 telecast averaged 22.29 million viewers from 8:16-11:43 p.m. ET, only 5 percent below last year’s Cubs-Indians (23.396 million; best Game 6 mark since 1997) but up 67 percent from […]
Fox topped Tuesday with Game 1 of MLB’s “2017 World Series” between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Averaging 14.968 million viewers from 8:04-10:40 p.m. ET, it was down 23 percent from last year’s Cubs-Indians (19.37 million; best mark since 2004) but up 0.2 percent from Mets-Royals in 2015 (14.94 million) and up […]
Three networks had a share of Tuesday night leadership: CBS in total viewers (10.96 million), NBC among adults 25-54 (2.6 rating/8 share), and TNT, courtesy of an NBA Opening Night doubleheader oh Boston Celtics at Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors, among adults 18-49 and adults 18-34. Overall, TNT’s NBA Opening Night […]
CBS led Tuesday prime time in total viewers (11.46 million) while NBC was tops among adults 18-49 (2.1 rating/8 share), adults 18-34 (1.4/7) and adults 25-54 (2.8/9). The Spanish-language telecast of the Honduras versus Mexico soccer match to qualify for the 2018 World Cup helped Telemundo, from 8-11 p.m., to rank second behind its fellow […]
CBS was Tuesday night’s most-watched network with an average of 11.18 million viewers. The network increased its audience on the night by four percent from last Tuesday. NBC led prime time among adults 18-49 (2.2 rating/8 share) and adults 25-54 (2.8/9). ESPN topped the night among adults 18-34 (1.92 rating from 8 p.m.-12:05 a.m.) thanks […]
The first Tuesday night of the 2017-18 TV season was much like how most Tuesdays have resulted in recent seasons: CBS tops in total viewers while NBC dominated all key demos. On this night, NBC approximately averaged just 700,000 viewers less than CBS. The breakout demo hit of 2016-17, NBC’s “This Is Us”, began its […]
