For the 49th consecutive time, “The NBA Finals” propelled ABC to win the night across all of television (broadcast and cable) and across all key demos. An average of 19.197 million viewers watched the Golden State Warriors’ 104-89 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, the largest Game 1 audience ever on ABC for the NBA Finals, […]
NBC was the No. 1 network on Wednesday night among total viewers (5.84 million), adults 18-49 (1.5 rating/6 share), adults 18-34 (0.9/4), and adults 25-54 (2.0/6). Despite the move from its regular Monday night slot, the season premiere of NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior” drew an 8 percent increase in total viewers from its year-ago premiere […]
NBC dominated Tuesday night with the eleventh season premiere of “America’s Got Talent”. The return delivered a 5 percent increase in total viewers from its year-ago premiere (11.09 million from 5/26/15); its adults 18-49 ratings delivery was flat from one year ago. It’s the second-most-watched “Talent” debut in five years (since 2011, 15.3 million, trailing […]
It was record-setting night on cable television this Monday as TNT won prime time overall. TNT’s “2016 NBA Western Conference Finals Game 7” between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors, on Monday, May 30, averaged 15.9 million total viewers and an 8.8 U.S. household rating to deliver cable television’s most-viewed NBA telecast […]
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From Campaign US: In recent weeks, an army of skeptics has questioned the A&E Networks’ decision to revive classic miniseries “Roots.” Some of them — most notably Snoop Dogg — have focused on the racial dimension, wondering whether a “Roots” remake will add anything of value to the conversation or just further inflame tensions. I, […]
We all new this new version of miniseries “Roots” could not compare with the estimated 140-million viewers who tuned in for some portion of the original on ABC in 1977. But part one of the revival on Monday scored 5.3 million viewers on the networks of A&E, History, Lifetime and LMN at 9 p.m. ET, […]
The upcoming four night, eight-hour reboot of classic miniseries “Roots” will launch on the networks of History, A&E and Lifetime on Memorial Day 2016. The cast includes Academy Award winners Forest Whitaker (“Fiddler”) and Anna Paquin (“Nancy Holt”); Laurence Fishburne (“Alex Haley”); Jonathan Rhys Meyers (“Tom Lea”); Anika Noni Rose (“Kizzy”); Tip “T.I.” Harris (“Cyrus”); […]
