CBS’s final Thursday multi-cast of NFL Network’s “Thursday Night Football” in 2016 led to another Thursday night victory for the network. The dreadfully-played Chicago-Green Bay matchup earned an 8.6 U.S. household rating/15 share and 14.202 million viewers, down 18 percent in ratings and down 17 percent in viewership from the year-ago TNF game telecast, Seattle-San […]
CBS/NFL Network continued its Thursday night win streak with “Thursday Night Football”. The Denver Broncos-San Diego Chargers game (8.7 U.S. household rating/15 share, 14.49 million viewers) was off just 2 percent in total viewers from the year-ago TNF game telecast, Atlanta-New Orleans (14.78 million on 10/15/15). “Supernatural” is still showing its ratings mettle for the […]
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 […]
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 […]
[socialpoll id=”2381114″] From NBC Sports Group (full press release): For Thursday’s primetime coverage, NBC Olympics’ Total Audience Delivery — calculating average minute viewing across broadcast, cable, and digital — had an average of 33.0 million viewers with an 18.9 household rating. The night was down 10 percent in viewership from the first Thursday in London […]
It was all CBS on this Thursday night as the network won all key measures including total viewers (5.08 million), adults 18-49 (1.2 rating/5 share), adults 18-34 (0.6/4) and adults 25-54 (1.6/6). “Big Brother 18” (CBS) and “Greatest Hits” (ABC) — the latter, in its 2-hour season finale — each drew a 4-week best in […]
What follows are the fast affiliate results for Thursday, August 4 broken out by network and by each half-hour: Usage level for 8-11 p.m.: household rating: 52.7 adults 18-49: 24.4 Note: CW affiliate in New York (WPIX) televised MLB Mets-Yankees in prime time, drawing a 4.0 local rating/7 share from 8-10 p.m. ET in the […]
CNN was television’s top network in prime time among total viewers (5.69 million), adults 18-49 (1.35 rating) and adults 18-34 (0.97 rating) on the final night of the “2016 Democratic National Convention” which featured Hillary Clinton’s speech upon accepting her Democratic nomination for POTUS. In the 10 p.m. hour, the DNC drew a combined 28.177 […]
Fox News Channel was Thursday’s most-watched network in prime time with an average of 7.179 million total viewers. CBS won among adults 18-49 (1.2 rating/5 share), adults 18-34 (0.8/4) and adults 25-54 (1.6/5). The final night of the four-day “2016 Republican National Convention” featuring speeches from Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka as well as Donald Trump […]
