Sunday night’s NBA Finals Game 7 on ABC was the most-watched, highest-rated NBA game since Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals (which had aired on NBC), according to Nielsen. ABC’s Game 7 viewership peaked with 44.511 million viewers and a 22.5 U.S. rating from 10:30-10:40 p.m. ET. The 2016 NBA Finals on ABC, in […]
CBS was Sunday night’s most-watched network with an average of 8.55 million viewers. Propelled by the awards host James Corden (“Late Late Show” and famed Carpool Karaoke segments) and the winner of 11 Tonys, the smash hit musical “Hamilton”, CBS’s broadcast of THE 70th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS® delivered its largest audience since 2001 and its […]
Although Golden State’s blowout win over Cleveland resulted in declines of 9 percent (in total viewers; 17.489 million vs. 19.168 million) and 12 percent (in adults 18-49; 8.28 million vs. 9.432 million) for “NBA Finals Game 2” from its year-ago Finals Game 2 (on 6/07/15), ABC still won Sunday night, by far, in all measures. […]
It was a normally low-rated night of television on this Sunday, the night before the Memorial Day holiday. Fox remained the annual prime time winner on this evening, thanks to their traditional telecast (since acquiring it in 2001) of NASCAR’s “Coca-Cola 500”. On the negative side, though, the race on Fox drew its least non-rainout […]
ABC won the final Sunday night of the 2015-16 traditional season in all measures except adults 18-34 (TNT, due to coverage of “NBA Western Conference Finals Game 3: Golden State Warriors @ Oklahoma City Thunder”, won with an approximate 2.3 rating), thanks to the season finale of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and the “2016 Billboard […]
CBS was again Sunday’s most-watched network in prime time with 7.79 million total viewers. Their night featured a one-hour “60 Minutes” special dedicated to longtime news reporter Morley Safer who is retiring. Led by “Game of Thrones”, “Silicon Valley” and “Veep”, HBO was tops among all key demographics from 7-11 p.m.: adults 18-49 (approx. 1.4 […]
CBS was Sunday’s most-watched network in prime time with 8.82 million total viewers. The series finale of the long-running critically-acclaimed drama “The Good Wife” on CBS drew the series’ largest audience (with 10.62 million) since November 9, 2014 and had its best deliveries in both adults 25-54 (2.0/5) and adults 18-49 (1.3/4) since Jan. 17, […]
CBS topped Sunday prime time in total viewers (8.72 million) and tied NBC for No. 1 among adults 25-54 (1.5 rating/4 share). Indiana Pacers at Toronto Raptors in Game 7 of the “NBA Eastern Conference First Round” series put TNT on top of key young demographics including adults 18-49 (in a virtual tie with HBO […]
CBS and TNT each won a part of this Sunday night. CBS was prime time’s most-watched network with an average of 8.32 million viewers; TNT, with an “NBA Eastern Conference First Round Game 4” doubleheader: Atlanta Hawks at Boston Celtics, then Cleveland Cavaliers at Detroit Pistons, topped all key demographics including adults 18-49, adults 18-34 […]
