What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night’s top original cable telecasts on Thursday, November 23 (with the night’s cable ranks according to total viewers and adults 18-49 in parentheses): Soul Train: 30th Anniversary (BET, 10:00 PM, 60 min.) – 0.369 million viewers (#77) – 0.11 A18-49 (#88) College Football […]
NBC was able to emerge victorious as Monday’s most-watched network with an average of 9.68 million in prime time, thanks to “The Voice”. ESPN still won the night among all key demos with Tampa Bay-Carolina on “Monday Night Football” (5.59 household rating, 9.057 million viewers) but lost the viewer crown as sports fans were also […]
The lone vice presidential debate of the 2016 election between Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence and Hillary Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine was seen by less than half of the Clinton-Trump presidential debate from Sep. 26 (the most watched political debate of all-time) and was the least-watched veep debate since 2000 (29 million for […]
ESPN again is the Monday night winner in all key measures with the “Monday Night Football” matchup of New York Giants-Minnesota Vikings (which the Vikings had won 24-10). At 10 p.m., the series debuts of “Conviction” (ABC) and “Timeless” (NBC) couldn’t top the third season premiere of “Scorpion” (CBS) in total viewers (although ‘Timeless’ eked […]
Tuesday night’s honors went to total-viewer winner CBS with an average of 13.3 million viewers and key-demo winner NBC among adults 18-49 (3.1 rating/11 share), adults 18-34 (2.1/10), and adults 25-54 (4.0/12). “Bull” (CBS) and “This Is Us” (NBC) each debuted well on the previous Tuesday and both maintained much of their audiences in their […]
CBS easily won Thursday evening with the return of “Thursday Night Football” featuring the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills. However, it was the lowest-rated, least-watched TNF premiere (including streaming data) since 2013 (N.Y. Jets-New England on NFL Network and local broadcast affiliates in New York and Boston; 6.9 household rating, 11 million viewers). […]
NBC dominated Wednesday night with the 2-hour 11th season finale of “America’s Got Talent” followed by the second season premiere of “Blindspot.” The season finale of “America’s Got Talent” (2.8/10 in 18-49, 14.4 million viewers overall from 8-10 p.m. ET): · Jumps +33% versus its year-ago finale in 18-49 (2.8 vs. 2.1 from 9-11 p.m. […]
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 […]
