While NBC still won Sunday night overwhelmingly with “Sunday Night Football”, the game dipped to a multi-year low for a Week 4 SNF — a trend that each NBC NFL game this season has experienced thus far based on household ratings. Viewer interest most likely waned from the Pittsburgh Steelers (which led 22-0 over the […]
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Despite the “68th Primetime Emmy Awards” airing on ABC, NBC led Sunday night (by far) with Green Bay-Minnesota on “Sunday Night Football.” As for the Emmys, it was the second consecutive year the ceremony dipped to all-time lows in total viewers and young demos, even with unpredictable award winners in some of the major acting […]
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While the return of “Sunday Night Football” helped NBC to a dominant Sunday night win and the game itself went down to the wire (New England def. Arizona 23-21), it was the lowest-rated and least-watched SNF season premiere since 2009 (Chicago-Green Bay: 12.6 rating, 21.1 million viewers). When including streaming data, the total viewership rises […]
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Sunday night’s double-overtime thriller between Notre Dame and Texas on ABC and WatchESPN delivered a total live audience measurement (TV + Streaming) of 11.093 million average viewers, the most-watched college football kickoff weekend game on record across all networks*. This bests the previous total audience record that had been set one year prior: ESPN’s Ohio […]
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The “Sunday Fun & Games” lineup of “Celebrity Family Feud”, “The $100,000 Pyramid” and “Match Game” returned ABC to the top of Sunday night among total viewers (5.39 million). “NFL Preseason” with Cincinnati vs. Jacksonville helped NBC win among the broadcast networks in all key demos. For CBS, “Big Brother 18” rose to another season […]
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While the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics was NBCUniversal’s second most-viewed non-domestic Olympics ever with an average of 27.5 million viewers thru 16 nights (Source: NBC Sports Group), its conclusion — the Closing Ceremony — dipped to its lowest ratings ever (on record) for a Summer Olympics (previous mark was Sydney’s 10.8 in 2000) and was […]
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Sunday Final Nationals: ‘Billboard Music Awards’ on ABC at a Three-Year Viewer-Low but Still Strong
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ABC won the final Sunday night of the 2015-16 traditional season in all measures except adults 18-34 (TNT, due to coverage of “NBA Western Conference Finals Game 3: Golden State Warriors @ Oklahoma City Thunder”, won with an approximate 2.3 rating), thanks to the season finale of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and the “2016 Billboard […]
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CBS was again Sunday’s most-watched network in prime time with 7.79 million total viewers. Their night featured a one-hour “60 Minutes” special dedicated to longtime news reporter Morley Safer who is retiring. Led by “Game of Thrones”, “Silicon Valley” and “Veep”, HBO was tops among all key demographics from 7-11 p.m.: adults 18-49 (approx. 1.4 […]
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CBS was Sunday’s most-watched network in prime time with 8.82 million total viewers. The series finale of the long-running critically-acclaimed drama “The Good Wife” on CBS drew the series’ largest audience (with 10.62 million) since November 9, 2014 and had its best deliveries in both adults 25-54 (2.0/5) and adults 18-49 (1.3/4) since Jan. 17, […]