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 […]
The National Football League announced its postseason television schedule on Sunday, January 3. Let the games begin… #NFLPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/DWB9yjQw21 — NFL (@NFL) January 4, 2016 [socialpoll id=”2157963″ type=”set”] Wild Card weekend marks the kickoff to the NFL postseason on Jan. 9-10. ESPN and ABC will simulcast the first game of these playoffs: Kansas City Chiefs […]
Of the games with the most playoff implications: Washington and Philadelphia battle for first place in the NFC Least, er… East on NFL Network in a Saturday night matchup on Dec. 26; AFC East leader New England Patriots go to the Meadowlands to face playoff contender and division rival New York Jets on CBS in […]
NBC was the Sunday night winner once again in all key measures, thanks to prime time football. The finale of the Univision’s music-based reality competition, “La Banda” reached 5.1 million total viewers who tuned in to all or part of the three-hour live broadcast from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. ET. The live telecast averaged […]
The Pittsburgh Steelers dominated the Indianapolis Colts 45-10 on “Sunday Night Football” (Women 18-34: 3.5/13; Men 18-34: 7.1/26; Women 18-49: 4.6/14; Men 18-49: 8.8/26). Also with a dominating victory on this Sunday night: the network that carried the game, NBC. CBS showcased a salute to the late great crooner Frank Sinatra with “Sinatra 100: An […]
“The Wiz Live!,” the third live musical on NBC since 2013 was, not surprisingly, the top televised special on Twitter and most tweeted-about telecast overall for the week of Nov. 30. According to Nielsen, the Dec. 3 live telecast totaled 1.64 million tweets written by 279,000 unique authors, which were seen by a unique audience […]
While the Denver Broncos spoiled the undefeated season of New England Patriots with a 30-24 overtime victory on “Sunday Night Football” (Women 18-34: 4.8/17; Men 18-34: 8.8/30; Women 18-49: 5.8/17; Men 18-49: 11.2/32), it didn’t spoil NBC’s overwhelming victory in all key figures on Sunday night. The game marks the fifth NBC Sunday Night Football […]
The fall finale of AMC’s zombie drama “The Walking Dead” was the top entry on Twitter’s series and specials list for the week of Nov. 23. According to Nielsen, the Nov. 29 telecast totaled 488,000 tweets written by 125,000 unique authors, which were seen by a unique audience of 3.67 million people (generating 31.10 million […]
It was a good Monday night for the networks of Disney. ESPN won Monday night in total viewers, households and all key male and adult demos (18-34, 18-49 and 25-54) with “Monday Night Football” (Bills-Patriots) (Women 18-34: 2.64; Men 18-34: 5.89; Women 18-49: 3.10; Men 18-49: 7.17). Bills-Patriots peaked from 9:45-10 p.m. ET with a […]
