The 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs continue with Conference Semifinal action among the eight teams remaining. All series are Best 4-out-of-7. The networks of NBC — NBC, NBCSN, CNBC and USA — will broadcast all the action in the United States. For the playoffs’ first round, regional sports networks in the teams’ respective markets were also […]
The 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs have arrived! Starting April 12 and for the next two months, up to 16 teams — eight from each the Eastern and Western conferences — will vie for the coveted Stanley Cup trophy. The top three teams in each of the four divisions (Atlantic and Metropolitan of the East, Central […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fox won Wednesday among total viewers (8.05 million) and all key demos. CBS was just 233,000 viewers behind Fox on the night. NBCSN was the night’s top sports cable network as the 2016-17 NHL regular season opened with the St. Louis Blues and the Chicago Blackhawks. At a 0.53 U.S. household rating and 905,000 viewers, […]
While the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics was NBCUniversal’s second most-viewed non-domestic Olympics ever with an average of 27.5 million viewers thru 16 nights (Source: NBC Sports Group), its conclusion — the Closing Ceremony — dipped to its lowest ratings ever (on record) for a Summer Olympics (previous mark was Sydney’s 10.8 in 2000) and was […]
From NBC Sports Group (full press release): For Friday’s primetime coverage, NBC Olympics’ Total Audience Delivery — calculating average minute viewing across broadcast, cable, and digital — had an average of 21.1 million viewers with an 12.3 household rating. The night was down 6 percent in viewership and down 7 percent in household rating from […]
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 22.9 million viewers with an 13.6 household rating; the same viewership and household rating from the second Thursday in London 2012 (on August 2, […]
From NBC Sports Group (full press release): For Wednesday’s primetime coverage, NBC Olympics’ Total Audience Delivery — calculating average minute viewing across broadcast, cable, and digital — averaged a 13.3 household rating with 22.1 million viewers, down 24 percent in total viewers and down 21 percent in household rating from the second Wednesday in London […]
