NBC won Sunday night with the Kansas City Chiefs’ 30-27 overtime victory over the Denver Broncos on “Sunday Night Football.” Despite the competitive nature of the game, the prime time declines for the NFL were again exhibited on this night. Compared to the year-ago “SNF” game of Patriots-Broncos (11/29/15), Chiefs-Broncos was down 26-27 percent in […]
While it was a holiday weekend, CBS remained as the Friday night leader in total viewers (4.61 million). NBC won a rare Friday night among all key demos including adults 18-49 (0.9/3 rating/share) and adults 25-54 (1.2/4). Four different networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and the CW — televised holiday specials in the 8 p.m. […]
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 […]
CBS and ABC shared Saturday leadership. CBS, with an “NCIS” rerun and two hours of newsmagazine “48 Hours”, led in total viewers (4.29 million) while ABC, with Oklahoma-West Virginia on “Saturday Night Football”, led in all key demos. The Hallmark film “My Christmas Dream”, starring Danica McKellar (“The Wonder Years”) and Diedre Hall (“Days of […]
For the second consecutive evening, “NFL Preseason” football won the night all-around for CBS. In most markets, the game featured was the Tennessee Titans vs. the Oakland Raiders, but other games (most notably, Giants-Jets in the New York market on its primary CBS affiliate) also took place. The day’s most-watched cable telecast was the premiere […]
NBC edged by Fox to be Saturday night’s most-watched network with an average of 4.094 million viewers in prime time (vs. 4.085 million for Fox). Fox was tops among adults 18-49 (0.9 rating/3 share) and adults 25-54 (1.3/4). Despite being delayed by rain, “NASCAR Sprint Cup: Duck Commander 500” from Texas bested the combined viewership […]
Saturday night belonged to TBS with coverage of the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Final Four”. In conjunction with “Team Stream” telecasts of each game on TNT and truTV, both college basketball games averaged 11.7 million viewers across the three Turner networks. But the news was far from positive when comparing the games to previous […]
CBS was the runaway winner on Saturday night with the network’s final night covering the “NCAA Div. I Men’s Basketball Tournament”. It was a doubleheader of Regional Final games that began airing at 6:00 p.m. ET: Oklahoma/Oregon in the West and Villanova/Kansas in the South. Compared to ABC, NBC and Fox combined, CBS outdrew their […]
The Feb. 27 edition of ABC’s “NBA Saturday Primetime” – the Golden State Warriors defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder 121-118 in overtime – averaged 5.322 million total viewers making it the most-watched non-Christmas NBA regular-season telecast on any network since Feb. 10, 2013 (Los Angeles Lakers at Miami Heat on ABC: 6.47 million), according to […]
