After a month-long hiatus due to live events, Fox’s Wednesday night lineup of scripted fare returned to win the evening although their top series “Empire” sunk to its new series-low in viewership and demo delivery. Still, the hip-hop drama was, by far, the night’s top program among key adult demos. Taking the crown for being […]
NBC was able to emerge victorious as Monday’s most-watched network with an average of 9.68 million in prime time, thanks to “The Voice”. ESPN still won the night among all key demos with Tampa Bay-Carolina on “Monday Night Football” (5.59 household rating, 9.057 million viewers) but lost the viewer crown as sports fans were also […]
Fox again was the Wednesday winner overall with “Lethal Weapon” and a Mariah Carey-guested “Empire”. The freshman “Lethal Weapon” has been a consistent positive for Fox, dropping another mere 9 percent (in total viewers) in its third week compared to its second week. Runner-up to Fox in all key measures was ESPN with its telecast […]
The lone vice presidential debate of the 2016 election between Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence and Hillary Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine was seen by less than half of the Clinton-Trump presidential debate from Sep. 26 (the most watched political debate of all-time) and was the least-watched veep debate since 2000 (29 million for […]
ESPN again is the Monday night winner in all key measures with the “Monday Night Football” matchup of New York Giants-Minnesota Vikings (which the Vikings had won 24-10). At 10 p.m., the series debuts of “Conviction” (ABC) and “Timeless” (NBC) couldn’t top the third season premiere of “Scorpion” (CBS) in total viewers (although ‘Timeless’ eked […]
Fox was the overall winner on Wednesday. “Empire”, which featured a police brutality storyline, remained as Wednesday night’s top telecast. Earlier in the evening, week two of cop-buddy action-dramedy “Lethal Weapon” retained much of its ratings from its week-ago series premiere telecast: Episode #2 of “Lethal Weapon” (Fox) erosion from series premiere: Total Viewers: -9 […]
Tuesday night’s honors went to total-viewer winner CBS with an average of 13.3 million viewers and key-demo winner NBC among adults 18-49 (3.1 rating/11 share), adults 18-34 (2.1/10), and adults 25-54 (4.0/12). “Bull” (CBS) and “This Is Us” (NBC) each debuted well on the previous Tuesday and both maintained much of their audiences in their […]
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). […]
NBC dominated Wednesday night with the 2-hour 11th season finale of “America’s Got Talent” followed by the second season premiere of “Blindspot.” The season finale of “America’s Got Talent” (2.8/10 in 18-49, 14.4 million viewers overall from 8-10 p.m. ET): · Jumps +33% versus its year-ago finale in 18-49 (2.8 vs. 2.1 from 9-11 p.m. […]
