NBC easily won Tuesday night with the final performance episode of “America’s Got Talent” and reality/comedy “Better Late Than Never”. A special Tuesday eviction episode of CBS reality competition “Big Brother 18” gave the series its largest live plus same day viewership since Aug. 28 and was in a virtual tie for the third most-viewed […]
ESPN won Monday’s prime time with a “Monday Night Football” doubleheader, Pittsburgh-Washington and Los Angeles-San Francisco. Despite being the sole network on TV averaging over 10 million viewers from 8-11 p.m., each game drew multi-year lows. Pittsburgh-Washington experienced a four-year low for an MNF season-opening game (Baltimore-Cincinnati, 2012, 7.0 household rating, 10.9 million viewers). Los […]
Due to the multi-network charity special “Stand Up To Cancer”, which wasn’t rated in the final nationals of solely the broadcast networks, NBC won Friday night from 9-11 p.m. A combined total of 10.598 million viewers across 24 different networks watched the star-studded ‘Stand Up To Cancer’ televised in the 8 p.m. hour. Below are […]
The 2016 NFL season kicked off on this Thursday night on NBC with a rematch of Super Bowl 50: the Carolina Panthers visiting the defending champion Denver Broncos. The game gave the network a rousing prime time win, but despite that victory, Carolina-Denver was the lowest-rated kickoff game since 2009 (Tennessee-Pittsburgh, 12.8) and the least-viewed […]
NBC was the clear winner in the Wednesday ratings. Their night featured the one-hour presidential candidate special “Commander-in-Chief Forum” whose moderator Matt Lauer was oft critically maligned as a result. As noted here last week, the MSNBC simulcast of the special drew 3.43 million viewers. Follow @SonOfTheBronx If you can see this text, your browser […]
With the combo of “America’s Got Talent” (in its penultimate week of the season) and reality/comedy “Better Late Than Never,” NBC was again the Tuesday night leader among total viewers (10.28 million), adults 18-49 (2.2 rating/8 share), adults 18-34 (1.4/4) and adults 25-54 (2.8/8). Tuesday’s most-watched cable telecast was Part 2 of Discovery Channel’s motorcycle […]
ESPN was Monday’s top network, by far, thanks to Ole Miss vs. Florida State. Its total live audience (on TV and streaming) is 8.585 million average viewers. The game ranked seventh-best Labor Day night game on ESPN/ABC, and the ninth-best kickoff week game on ESPN/ABC on record. Also, ESPN’s stream of the final game of […]
CBS, ABC and Fox shared leadership on a quiet Friday night of television as the country headed into Labor Day weekend. CBS led in total viewers (5.04 million), ABC was tops among adults 18-49 (0.8 rating/3 share), adults 25-54 (1.1/4) and shared the top spot with Fox for adults 18-34 (0.5/3). Follow @SonOfTheBronx If you […]
CBS was Thursday’s overall winner amidst a slew of broadcast network preemptions due to regional NFL preseason game telecasts, thanks to a rerun of “Big Bang Theory” and a new “Big Brother 18” despite being pushed to late night or onto secondary CBS affiliates in several major markets. Note: Final nationals for Spanish-language networks will […]
