After recent lackluster Monday games had resulted in lackluster ratings, ESPN returns to the top of the Monday heap as the night’s No. 1 network with “Monday Night Football” featuring the Houston Texans and the Denver Broncos (6.73 U.S. household rating, 11.168 million viewers). CBS debuted “Man with a Plan” starring ‘Friends’ alum Matt LeBlanc […]
Tuesday again belonged to CBS among total viewers (12.19 million) and NBC among adults 18-49 (2.3 rating/8 share), adults 18-34 (1.5/7) and adults 25-54 (3.0/9). The night featured two freshman series that, for the second consecutive Tuesday, improved upon their veteran hit lead-ins among adults 18-49 and adults 18-34: NBC’s “This Is Us” (2.6 adults […]
NBC was Monday’s top broadcast network among total viewers with an average of 9.57 million viewers. ESPN won the night in all key demos despite another single-digit million audience figure outing for “Monday Night Football” (5.16 U.S. household rating, 8.398 million viewers) — not a surprise for Arizona Cardinals’ 28-3 rout against the New York […]
CBS and NBC shared leadership for Tuesday in prime time. Sports cable outlet FS1 was the night’s No. 3 network. Game 4 of the “National League Division Series”, featuring the Chicago Cubs’ 4-run 9th-inning comeback to defeat the San Francisco Giants 6-5 and making the game a series-clincher, set a new FS1 telecast viewer record […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Opposite Debate, ‘Monday Night Football’ Sinks to Record Low On the truncated Monday prime time (due to the debate), NBC was the Monday victor among total viewers (11.99 million), adults 18-49 (3.4 rating/10 share) and adults 25-54 (4.2/11). Across 12 networks, 83.8 million viewers tuned in to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in their first […]
