The Minnesota Vikings’ 20-13 victory over the Green Bay Packers for the NFC North title on “Sunday Night Football” easily gave NBC a Sunday night victory. It delivered a +17 percent viewership increase from the 20.7 million viewers for 2014’s Week 17 SNF “AFC North Championship Game” (Pittsburgh’s 27-17 win over Cincinnati), which was also […]
What follows are the preliminary national ratings for Sunday, January 3 broken out by network and by each half-hour. Note that these results are based on the time period averages and are not program based. -Total Viewers: NBC: 17.68 million, CBS: 11.19, Fox: 4.81, ABC: 3.25 -Adults 18-49: NBC: 5.7 rating/17 share, CBS: 2.5/ 7, […]
It was not only a lopsided victory for the Minnesota Vikings over the New York Giants on “Sunday Night Football” — NBC won this final Sunday of 2015 by far, despite its marquee program drawing its least-watched game of its season. Follow @SonOfTheBronx If you can see this text, your browser does not support iframes. […]
Of the most meaningful games in this, the final week of the regular season: if the New York Jets defeat the Buffalo Bills and their ex-coach Rex Ryan, they automatically clinch a playoff spot; the Pittsburgh Steelers will be rooting for the Bills to win and they hope to defeat the Browns in Cleveland to […]
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 […]
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 2015 edition of “The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” on CBS from Dec. 8 finished atop all telecasts for the week of Dec. 7. According to Nielsen, the event totaled 918,000 tweets written by 409,000 unique authors, which were seen by a unique audience of 7.02 million people (generating 63.42 million Twitter TV impressions). The […]
