A special Saturday night edition of “Thursday Night Football” featuring the Washington football team clinching the NFC East division with a 38-24 win over the Philadelphia Eagles led NFL Network to rule the night on television. The network averaged 7.5 million total viewers and a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49 in prime time (8-11 p.m.). […]
NBC was Sunday night’s top network of all of television in all key measures, thanks to, of course, “Sunday Night Football” (Arizona-Philadelphia) (Women 18-34: 3.4/13; Men 18-34: 6.6/26; Women 18-49: 4.0/13; Men 18-49: 8.3/26). Fox had an above average Sunday evening — despite no late afternoon NFL lead-in — with the three-hour “Miss Universe Pageant” […]
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 […]
Two political debates – one from each political party – led Twitter among specials for the week of Dec. 14. Topping all televised events (including sports) was CNN’s telecast of the fifth Republican Presidential debate. According to Nielsen, the Dec. 15 event totaled 2.4 million tweets written by 490,000 unique authors, which were seen by […]
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 […]
ABC’s 49th Annual CMA Awards proved potent on social media, topping all televised events (including sports) on Twitter for the week of Nov. 2. According to Nielsen, the Nov. 4 event totaled 631,000 tweets written by 236,000 unique authors, which were seen by a unique audience of 6.36 million people (generating 70.56 million Twitter TV […]
