CBS was Thursday’s most-watched network with 8.63 million viewers and also led among adults 25-54 (2.8 rating/8 share). Their night featured an episode “Mom” that took a dark turn plot-wise. Ratings-wise, the telecast tied ABC’s “Scandal” for second place in adults 18-49 at 9-9:30 p.m. Although there will still be a significant boost due to […]
The return of its full slate of regular programming — “60 Minutes”, “Madam Secretary”, “The Good Wife” and “CSI: Cyber” — on the night led CBS to a total-viewer victory on Sunday with an average of 8.69 million total viewers. Leading television among adults 18-49 with an average of a 3.3 rating in prime time […]
Television’s biggest day of the year was headlined by “Super Bowl 50” televised on CBS. The Denver Broncos’ 24-10 victory over the Carolina Panthers didn’t set the all-time average viewership record which was set with last year’s Super Bowl XLIX (114.442 million) — this year’s game off 2 percent in total viewers and off 4 […]
Fox won its second consecutive Sunday night overall with the network’s first musical telecast “Grease Live.” In total viewers, the 3-hour Fox event starring Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Hudgens and Carly Rae Jepsen outdrew NBC’s two most recent musicals, “The Wiz Live” from Dec. 2015 and “Peter Pan Live” from Dec. 2014. Although it […]
It was all about Fox on Sunday evening with the NFC Championship Game which saw the top-seeded Carolina Panthers overwhelm the visiting Arizona Cardinals by a score of 49-15 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Despite the lopsided score, the NFC Championship Game posted a +7 percent household ratings increase over the 22.5/35 for […]
Aided by the Pittsburgh Steelers-Denver Broncos playoff game — the second most-watched Sunday AFC Divisional Playoff game ever on record (dating back to 1987-88), “60 Minutes” on CBS delivered the largest non-sports audience for a single broadcast this television season, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Jan. 17. It was the […]
Thanks to the 71-minute overrun of the NFL’s NFC Wild Card playoff into prime time, Fox snapped NBC’s 9-week Sunday winning streak among households and total viewers. Fox’s broadcast of the Green Bay Packers versus the Washington football team, which the visiting Packers won 35-18, posted a 21.8/37 household rating/share, with 38.8 million viewers, and […]
The Minnesota Vikings’ 20-13 victory over the Green Bay Packers for the NFC North title on “Sunday Night Football” easily gave NBC a Sunday night victory. It delivered a +17 percent viewership increase from the 20.7 million viewers for 2014’s Week 17 SNF “AFC North Championship Game” (Pittsburgh’s 27-17 win over Cincinnati), which was also […]
NBC was Sunday night’s top network of all of television in all key measures, thanks to, of course, “Sunday Night Football” (Arizona-Philadelphia) (Women 18-34: 3.4/13; Men 18-34: 6.6/26; Women 18-49: 4.0/13; Men 18-49: 8.3/26). Fox had an above average Sunday evening — despite no late afternoon NFL lead-in — with the three-hour “Miss Universe Pageant” […]
