CBS led Thursday night once again in total viewers but for the first time this TV season, they won the night with scripted fare. Among their five programs in prime time, two had series debuts. The new Joel McHale workplace sitcom “The Great Indoors” lost about 40 percent of its “Big Bang Theory” lead-in among […]
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 […]
After a one-week hiatus, “Thursday Night Football” returned to a CBS/NFL Network multi-cast with the Arizona Cardinals versus the San Francisco 49ers. CBS still won the evening overall but the game (7.4 household rating/13 share, 12.073 million viewers) suffered huge viewership declines (of about 20 percent) compared to the year-ago TNF game, Indianapolis-Houston (9.5 household […]
Despite a blowout win by the New England Patriots over the visiting Houston Texans, CBS again won Thursday evening with “Thursday Night Football”. There were many positives to claim for the new series premieres from the first three days of the 2016-17 traditional TV season. However, on this fourth evening, two new programs didn’t bask […]
CBS easily won Thursday evening with the return of “Thursday Night Football” featuring the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills. However, it was the lowest-rated, least-watched TNF premiere (including streaming data) since 2013 (N.Y. Jets-New England on NFL Network and local broadcast affiliates in New York and Boston; 6.9 household rating, 11 million viewers). […]
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 […]
For the first night in 22 nights on television, a network other than NBC won prime time. An “NFL Preseason” matchup between the Cleveland Browns and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers helped CBS win Friday among total viewers and all key demographics. Half-hours for “NFL Preseason: Cleveland Browns @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers” on CBS were, as […]
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 […]
