The National Football League will expand “Thursday Night Football” in 2016 and 2017, continuing its partnership with CBS while also adding NBC as a partner. Both CBS and NBC will broadcast five games, increasing the package to 10 broadcast games in 2016 and 2017 from eight in 2014 and 2015. All “Thursday Night Football” broadcast […]
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 […]
The final Thursday edition of “Thursday Night Football” led NFL Network to dominate Christmas Eve on television. The cable outlet — which featured an Oakland Raiders team prevailing 23-20 over the San Diego Chargers in an overtime contest — averaged over 6.4 million total viewers and almost a 2.2 rating among adults 18-49 in prime […]
Based on the 16 games of the 2015 schedule, “Thursday Night Football” on CBS and NFL Network (and over-the air stations) averaged 13.0 million viewers, which was a six percent increase from last year’s 12.3 million. Results in target adults 18-49 were a 7.9 rating/14 share, which was a rise of five percent from 2014. The scoop: […]
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 […]
CBS — the lone broadcast network to air all original programming in prime time — was, by far, the top network on television among total viewers (9.28 million), adults 18-49 (2.0 rating/7 share) and adults 25-54 (3.0/9). Its four comedies each rose to their best numbers in several weeks: The highly-promoted Sheldon-Amy hookup episode of […]
NBC was Thursday’s most-watched network — a rarity in recent years — with its holiday specials “Michael Buble’s Christmas in Hollywood” (Women 18-34: 0.8/3; Men 18-34: 0.6/3; Women 18-49: 1.4/5; Men 18-49: 0.9/3) and the telemovie “Coat of Many Colors” (Women 18-34: 1.3/5; Men 18-34: 0.9/4; Women 18-49: 2.3/7; Men 18-49: 1.3/5) . NBC has […]
“The Wiz Live!,” the third live musical on NBC since 2013 was, not surprisingly, the top televised special on Twitter and most tweeted-about telecast overall for the week of Nov. 30. According to Nielsen, the Dec. 3 live telecast totaled 1.64 million tweets written by 279,000 unique authors, which were seen by a unique audience […]
