What follows are the preliminary national ratings for Sunday, January 17 broken out by network and by each half-hour. Note that these results are based on the time period averages and are not program based. -Total Viewers: CBS: 20.08 million, NBC: 7.22, Fox: 2.79, ABC: 2.50 -Adults 18-49: CBS: 5.0 rating/15 share, NBC: 1.4/ 4, […]
What follows are the early overnight household ratings from the top 56 metered markets in half-hour breakdowns for Sunday, January 17, 2016: For mobile users, you may scroll this table horizontally. Prime Averages Network HH Rtg/Share 14.3/22 5.3/8 1.7/3 1.4/2 Sunday, January 17, 2016 7:00 PROGRAM HH Rtg/ Share America’s Funniest Home Videos 2.5/4 AFC […]
The National Football League announced its postseason television schedule on Sunday, January 3. Let the games begin… #NFLPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/DWB9yjQw21 — NFL (@NFL) January 4, 2016 [socialpoll id=”2157963″ type=”set”] Wild Card weekend marks the kickoff to the NFL postseason on Jan. 9-10. ESPN and ABC will simulcast the first game of these playoffs: Kansas City Chiefs […]
The tenth season finale of “Monday Night Football” – a Denver Broncos’ 20-17 overtime victory over the Cincinnati Bengals – delivered a 9.4 household rating and 15.806 million viewers, based on Nielsen ratings, giving ESPN its highest-rated and most-viewed MNF telecast of the season. The game peaked from 11:30-11:45 p.m. ET with an 11.2 rating […]
Of the most meaningful games in this, the final week of the regular season: if the New York Jets defeat the Buffalo Bills and their ex-coach Rex Ryan, they automatically clinch a playoff spot; the Pittsburgh Steelers will be rooting for the Bills to win and they hope to defeat the Browns in Cleveland to […]
NBC was Sunday night’s top network of all of television in all key measures, thanks to, of course, “Sunday Night Football” (Arizona-Philadelphia) (Women 18-34: 3.4/13; Men 18-34: 6.6/26; Women 18-49: 4.0/13; Men 18-49: 8.3/26). Fox had an above average Sunday evening — despite no late afternoon NFL lead-in — with the three-hour “Miss Universe Pageant” […]
Of the games with the most playoff implications: Washington and Philadelphia battle for first place in the NFC Least, er… East on NFL Network in a Saturday night matchup on Dec. 26; AFC East leader New England Patriots go to the Meadowlands to face playoff contender and division rival New York Jets on CBS in […]
Two political debates – one from each political party – led Twitter among specials for the week of Dec. 14. Topping all televised events (including sports) was CNN’s telecast of the fifth Republican Presidential debate. According to Nielsen, the Dec. 15 event totaled 2.4 million tweets written by 490,000 unique authors, which were seen by […]
While the Denver Broncos spoiled the undefeated season of New England Patriots with a 30-24 overtime victory on “Sunday Night Football” (Women 18-34: 4.8/17; Men 18-34: 8.8/30; Women 18-49: 5.8/17; Men 18-49: 11.2/32), it didn’t spoil NBC’s overwhelming victory in all key figures on Sunday night. The game marks the fifth NBC Sunday Night Football […]
