CBS and NBC once again shared Tuesday night victory — CBS among total viewers, NBC among all key adult demos. ESPN’s “College Football Playoff: Top 25” (9:30 p.m. – 10 p.m.) delivered a Nielsen total live audience of 3,785,000 viewers and a 2.26 household rating, the best viewership ever in the more than 20 Tuesday […]
ESPN definitively won this Monday all around with the Clemson Tigers’ thrilling 35-31 victory over the No. 1-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide in the “College Football Playoff National Championship.” The game — which ended at 12:36 a.m. ET — delivered a total live audience across the multi-network MegaCast (TV feeds + streaming) of 26.029 million viewers. […]
The Clemson Tigers upset the Alabama Crimson Tide and won the college football national championship, 35-31, in Tampa early Tuesday morning (Jan. 10). In a wild second half, Clemson scored with 1 second left to stun Alabama. Clemson was led by its star quarterback, Deshaun Watson, who threw for 420 yards despite facing a defense […]
ESPN dominated New Year’s Eve prime time with the nightcap College Football Playoff Semifinal, Fiesta Bowl: Ohio State vs. Clemson (19.24 million on ESPN and ESPN2 combined) which was up 3 percent in TV-only viewers from the year-ago prime time Semifinal of the Cotton Bowl. The late afternoon Semifinal Peach Bowl: Alabama vs. Washington (19.34 […]
The match-ups for the 2016-17 college football bowl season are set. ESPN will deliver the third year of the College Football Playoff Semifinals on New Year’s Eve Saturday, Dec. 31. At 3pm eastern, the SEC champion Alabama Crimson Tide and the Pac-12 champion Washington Huskies meet at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, Ga. for the […]
The College Football Playoff National Championship – an Alabama 45-40 victory over Clemson – averaged 25.667 million total viewers and a 14.7 household rating, marking it the most-watched cable program since the inaugural CFP National Championship (Jan 12, 2015). To-date, the audience is the sixth best in the history of cable. As a result, ESPN […]
The top ratings performer on New Year’s Eve — as usual on every New Year’s Eve since the 1970’s — is “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” in late night from New York’s Times Square as the clock struck midnight on the East Coast. In prime time, a new ratings winner emerged: ABC’s fellow Disney […]
The matchups for the 2015-16 college football bowl season are set. ESPN will deliver the second year of the College Football Playoff Semifinals on New Year’s Eve Thursday, Dec. 31. At 4pm eastern, the ACC champion Clemson Tigers face Big 12 champion Oklahoma Sooners in the Orange Bowl in Miami. Then, in the night cap, […]
