THE ROAD TO SUPER BOWL LI WILL BE TELEVISED The National Football League announced its postseason television schedule on Sunday, January 1. The Playoff Picture is official.#NFLPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/xnmwYZ10Zu — NFL (@NFL) January 2, 2017 Wild Card weekend marks the kickoff to the NFL postseason on Jan. 7-8. ESPN and ABC will simulcast the first game […]
The success of the 2016 Dallas Cowboys have recently delivered season highs for each Fox, NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” and on this Monday night, ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.” ESPN’s 2016 MNF regular season finale – a Dallas Cowboys 42-21 victory over the Detroit Lions – delivered a total live audience (TV + Streaming) of 18.964 […]
MONDAY DECEMBER 26, 2017 ABC 8:00 p.m. “Happy new Year, Charlie Brown” (R) 9:00 p.m. “Rudolph’s Shiny New Year” (R) 10:00 p.m. “The Great American Baking Show” (R) CBS 8:00 p.m. “Kevin Can Wait” (R) 8:30 p.m. “Man with a Plan” (R) 9:00 p.m. “Kevin Can Wait” (R) 9:30 p.m. “Man with a Plan” (R) […]
The annual Thanksgiving night edition of “Sunday Night Football” gave NBC an easy Thursday night victory. Nonetheless, the NFL prime time ratings woes continued as the Pittsburgh Steelers-Indianapolis Colts (sans Colts quarterback Andrew Luck) matchup from 8:30-11:00 p.m. was down 26 percent in total viewers (18.543 million vs. 25.167 million) and down 24 percent in […]
During the halftime analysis of the Vikings-Lions game on Thanksgiving (Nov. 24), the CBS NFL studio crew also makes note of the length of time of Aretha Franklin’s performance of the Star-Spangled Banner at the start of the game. Of course, Franklin sang her version much longer than a usual National Anthem performance. Here was […]
Repeat programming encompasses the majority of the TV schedule during holiday time and this Monday before Christmas was no different. Two Disney networks — ESPN and ABC — were among the few outlets to feature all-original programs in prime time and they benefited in the ratings. ESPN was the No. 1 network on TV overall […]
“The Wiz Live!,” the third live musical on NBC since 2013 was, not surprisingly, the top televised special on Twitter and most tweeted-about telecast overall for the week of Nov. 30. According to Nielsen, the Dec. 3 live telecast totaled 1.64 million tweets written by 279,000 unique authors, which were seen by a unique audience […]
The simulcast editions of “Thursday Night Football” (Women 18-34: 2.9/12; Men 18-34: 5.2/23; Women 18-49: 3.6/12; Men 18-49: 6.9/24) on CBS and NFL Network in 2015 concluded on a winning and, as seen in the video below (sorry, Lions fans!), spectacular note. NBC delivered solid numbers for its musical “The Wiz Live!” (Women 18-34: 3.5/14; […]
