NBC’s annual tradition of live musicals helped the network win Wednesday night all around with this year’s “Hairspray Live.” The star-studded cast featured Maddie Baillio, Harvey Fierstein, Martin Short, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Derek Hough, Kristin Chenoweth and Andrea Martin. “Hairspray Live” delivered 9.05 million viewers and a 2.3 rating/8 share among adults 18-49 — […]
Fox again led all of Wednesday night’s key demos but thanks to holiday specials, NBC led this prime time in total viewers with an average of 11.22 million. A rainy night in New York City didn’t dampen the “Christmas in Rockefeller Center” special (10.5 million) which, in viewership, was up 30 percent from 12/02/15 (8.071 […]
Fox won Wednesday night overall. “Empire” rose a bit from its series-low figures of last week (Nov. 9). The sixth season finale of FX anthology “American Horror Story” ranked No. 1 on cable for the day among adults 18-49 (1.33 rating), adults 18-34 (1.37) and adults 25-54 (1.22). At 2.45 million live-plus-same day viewers, it […]
Fox winning Wednesday nights isn’t new — it regularly wins the evening whenever it airs “Empire.” But on this night, the network clearly dominated with Game 2 of “2016 World Series” featuring the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians, marking it Fox’s best Wednesday night ratings performance since Game 7 of the 2014 World Series […]
The tenth season finale of “Monday Night Football” – a Denver Broncos’ 20-17 overtime victory over the Cincinnati Bengals – delivered a 9.4 household rating and 15.806 million viewers, based on Nielsen ratings, giving ESPN its highest-rated and most-viewed MNF telecast of the season. The game peaked from 11:30-11:45 p.m. ET with an 11.2 rating […]
Repeat programming encompasses the majority of the TV schedule during holiday time and this Monday before Christmas was no different. Two Disney networks — ESPN and ABC — were among the few outlets to feature all-original programs in prime time and they benefited in the ratings. ESPN was the No. 1 network on TV overall […]
NBC was television’s top network on Monday night in total viewers (13.11 million) and adults 25-54 (4.3 rating/11 share). It’s NBC’s most-watched Monday night (13.1 million) since Aug. 25, 2014 (Emmys, 15.6 million). The penultimate edition of “The Voice” (Women 18-34: 3.1/12; Men 18-34: 1.4/6; Women 18-49: 4.3/13; Men 18-49: 2.1/6) this season scored the […]
