CBS and NBC shared leadership on this Tuesday night — CBS among total viewers, NBC among all key adult demos. ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary entitled “Nature Boy” about legendary professional wrestler Ric Flair was television’s top telecast among males 18-34 (1.06 rating), narrowly besting runner-up NBC’s “This Is Us” (1.0 rating) within the demo. […]
ESPN won Monday night among households, viewers, and all key male and adult demos (18-34, 18-49 and 25-54). Detroit Lions’ 30-17 victory over the Green Bay Packers on “Monday Night Football” averaged 11.2 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. It was the sixth Monday this season that MNF helped ESPN win the night […]
Fox dominated this Halloween Tuesday night with Game 6 of the “2017 World Series” between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Game 6 telecast averaged 22.29 million viewers from 8:16-11:43 p.m. ET, only 5 percent below last year’s Cubs-Indians (23.396 million; best Game 6 mark since 1997) but up 67 percent from […]
The race to be the Monday night total viewers leader was a tight one between two Disney-owned networks, ABC (10.15 million from 8-11 p.m.) and ESPN (10.42 million from 8:15-11:40 p.m.). The night’s most-watched TV telecast was the fall’s top freshman hit, ABC’s “The Good Doctor” (10.595 million viewers). ESPN did again dominate all Monday […]
Fox topped Tuesday with Game 1 of MLB’s “2017 World Series” between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Averaging 14.968 million viewers from 8:04-10:40 p.m. ET, it was down 23 percent from last year’s Cubs-Indians (19.37 million; best mark since 2004) but up 0.2 percent from Mets-Royals in 2015 (14.94 million) and up […]
A week after losing the Monday night viewer crown to its Disney brethren ABC, ESPN was strongly on top on this night with its “Monday Night Football” matchup of Washington Redskins at Philadelphia Eagles, up 1 percent from Houston at Denver from the same night one year ago. Cable Rankings – Monday 10/23/17 What follows […]
Three networks had a share of Tuesday night leadership: CBS in total viewers (10.96 million), NBC among adults 25-54 (2.6 rating/8 share), and TNT, courtesy of an NBA Opening Night doubleheader oh Boston Celtics at Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors, among adults 18-49 and adults 18-34. Overall, TNT’s NBA Opening Night […]
With a less than stellar NFL matchup of the Indianapolis Colts at Tennessee Titans, which aired opposite American League Championship Series Game 3: Houston Astros at New York Yankees on FS1, ESPN ceded the Monday night viewer crown to its fellow Disney-owned network ABC. ABC averaged 9.9 million viewers. Each of the first four episodes […]
CBS led Tuesday prime time in total viewers (11.46 million) while NBC was tops among adults 18-49 (2.1 rating/8 share), adults 18-34 (1.4/7) and adults 25-54 (2.8/9). The Spanish-language telecast of the Honduras versus Mexico soccer match to qualify for the 2018 World Cup helped Telemundo, from 8-11 p.m., to rank second behind its fellow […]
