NBC easily won Tuesday night with the final performance episode of “America’s Got Talent” and reality/comedy “Better Late Than Never”. A special Tuesday eviction episode of CBS reality competition “Big Brother 18” gave the series its largest live plus same day viewership since Aug. 28 and was in a virtual tie for the third most-viewed […]
ESPN won Monday’s prime time with a “Monday Night Football” doubleheader, Pittsburgh-Washington and Los Angeles-San Francisco. Despite being the sole network on TV averaging over 10 million viewers from 8-11 p.m., each game drew multi-year lows. Pittsburgh-Washington experienced a four-year low for an MNF season-opening game (Baltimore-Cincinnati, 2012, 7.0 household rating, 10.9 million viewers). Los […]
Due to the multi-network charity special “Stand Up To Cancer”, which wasn’t rated in the final nationals of solely the broadcast networks, NBC won Friday night from 9-11 p.m. A combined total of 10.598 million viewers across 24 different networks watched the star-studded ‘Stand Up To Cancer’ televised in the 8 p.m. hour. Below are […]
The 2016 NFL season kicked off on this Thursday night on NBC with a rematch of Super Bowl 50: the Carolina Panthers visiting the defending champion Denver Broncos. The game gave the network a rousing prime time win, but despite that victory, Carolina-Denver was the lowest-rated kickoff game since 2009 (Tennessee-Pittsburgh, 12.8) and the least-viewed […]
NBC was the clear winner in the Wednesday ratings. Their night featured the one-hour presidential candidate special “Commander-in-Chief Forum” whose moderator Matt Lauer was oft critically maligned as a result. As noted here last week, the MSNBC simulcast of the special drew 3.43 million viewers. Follow @SonOfTheBronx If you can see this text, your browser […]
With the combo of “America’s Got Talent” (in its penultimate week of the season) and reality/comedy “Better Late Than Never,” NBC was again the Tuesday night leader among total viewers (10.28 million), adults 18-49 (2.2 rating/8 share), adults 18-34 (1.4/4) and adults 25-54 (2.8/8). Tuesday’s most-watched cable telecast was Part 2 of Discovery Channel’s motorcycle […]
CBS, ABC and Fox shared leadership on a quiet Friday night of television as the country headed into Labor Day weekend. CBS led in total viewers (5.04 million), ABC was tops among adults 18-49 (0.8 rating/3 share), adults 25-54 (1.1/4) and shared the top spot with Fox for adults 18-34 (0.5/3). Follow @SonOfTheBronx If you […]
CBS was Thursday’s overall winner amidst a slew of broadcast network preemptions due to regional NFL preseason game telecasts, thanks to a rerun of “Big Bang Theory” and a new “Big Brother 18” despite being pushed to late night or onto secondary CBS affiliates in several major markets. Note: Final nationals for Spanish-language networks will […]
NBC was Wednesday’s top network among total viewers (7.46 million), adults 18-49 (1.4 rating/5 share) and adults 25-54 (1.9/6). Leading out of the “America’s Got Talent” results show, “The Night Shift” concluded its summer run at above its season average level (5 million viewers/0.98 adults 18-49 rating) in viewership and demos. Fox earned an adults […]
