There was split leadership on the second night of the 2016-17 traditional TV season. CBS won among total viewers (14.23 million) while NBC led among key demos such as adults 18-49 (3.2 rating/12share), adults 18-34 (2.3/10) and adults 25-54 (4.0/12). Much like the previous night, two new series launched out of current hit programs and […]
The No. 1 network on night #1 of the 2016-17 traditional TV season was ESPN with “Monday Night Football.” ESPN won the night among all networks (broadcast or cable) in households, viewers and all key male and adult demos for the second time in as many weeks. The MNF game ranked as the #1 telecast […]
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 […]
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 […]
ESPN was Monday’s top network, by far, thanks to Ole Miss vs. Florida State. Its total live audience (on TV and streaming) is 8.585 million average viewers. The game ranked seventh-best Labor Day night game on ESPN/ABC, and the ninth-best kickoff week game on ESPN/ABC on record. Also, ESPN’s stream of the final game of […]
NBC won Tuesday night with the combo of “America’s Got Talent” and reality/comedy “Better Late Than Never.” From its series premiere telecast of one week prior, the latter program — featuring Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Terry Bradshaw and George Foreman together on a global tour — maintained 100% of its adults 18-49 rating and dropped […]
NBC was Monday’s top network among total viewers and all key demos with the combo of “American Ninja Warrior” and “Running Wild with Bear Grylls.” It is the 23rd of the past 25 prime times that NBC has took the crown in all key demos, and projects to extend this feat to 25-of-27 nights with […]
NBC’s prime time winning streak continued to 19 consecutive nights with the combo of “America’s Got Talent” and the series premiere of reality/comedy “Better Late Than Never.” The latter program — featuring Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Terry Bradshaw and George Foreman together on a global tour — drew NBC’s highest non-Olympic / non-“Talent” ratings in […]
