As Marc Berman indicated in the Feb. 6 edition of The Programming Insider Newsletter, NBC’s “This Is Us” scored a series-high 26.97 million viewers in the post-Super Bowl time period from 10:45-11:49 p.m., ET, which makes this the most-watched Super Bowl lead-out telecast in six years. Comparably, this is an increase of 9.4 million viewers […]
What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night’s broadcast network telecasts on Sunday, January 28: America’s Funniest Home Videos (R) (ABC, 7:00 PM, 60 min.) – 6.173 million viewers – 3.6/6 HH – 1.0/4 A18-49 (1.1/4 F18-49, 0.9/4 M18-49) – 0.6/3 A18-34 (0.7/3 F18-34, 0.5/3 M18-34) – 1.4/5 A25-54 (1.5/5 […]
What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night’s broadcast network telecasts on Sunday, January 21: America’s Funniest Home Videos (R) (ABC, 7:00 PM, 60 min.) – 3.894 million viewers – 2.2/4 HH – 0.6/2 A18-49 (0.7/2 F18-49, 0.6/2 M18-49) – 0.4/2 A18-34 (0.5/2 F18-34, 0.3/1 M18-34) – 0.9/2 A25-54 America’s […]
Fox ruled Sunday night in dominant fashion, courtesy of the NFL Divisional Playoff matchup between the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings running 77 minutes into prime time. Despite a competitive fourth quarter and an all-time classic ending to the game, Saints-Vikings was the least-watched NFL Divisional Playoff in the late Sunday afternoon window […]
The return of its full slate of regular programming — “60 Minutes”, “Madam Secretary”, “The Good Wife” and “CSI: Cyber” — on the night led CBS to a total-viewer victory on Sunday with an average of 8.69 million total viewers. Leading television among adults 18-49 with an average of a 3.3 rating in prime time […]
Television’s biggest day of the year was headlined by “Super Bowl 50” televised on CBS. The Denver Broncos’ 24-10 victory over the Carolina Panthers didn’t set the all-time average viewership record which was set with last year’s Super Bowl XLIX (114.442 million) — this year’s game off 2 percent in total viewers and off 4 […]
Fox won its second consecutive Sunday night overall with the network’s first musical telecast “Grease Live.” In total viewers, the 3-hour Fox event starring Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Hudgens and Carly Rae Jepsen outdrew NBC’s two most recent musicals, “The Wiz Live” from Dec. 2015 and “Peter Pan Live” from Dec. 2014. Although it […]
It was all about Fox on Sunday evening with the NFC Championship Game which saw the top-seeded Carolina Panthers overwhelm the visiting Arizona Cardinals by a score of 49-15 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Despite the lopsided score, the NFC Championship Game posted a +7 percent household ratings increase over the 22.5/35 for […]
Aided by the Pittsburgh Steelers-Denver Broncos playoff game — the second most-watched Sunday AFC Divisional Playoff game ever on record (dating back to 1987-88), “60 Minutes” on CBS delivered the largest non-sports audience for a single broadcast this television season, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Sunday, Jan. 17. It was the […]
