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Overnights CBS won Tuesday thanks to a dominant NCIS/NCIS: New Orleans crossover which delivered season highs in key demos and total viewers for both series. How did its competition fare in comparison? Let’s find out: FOX – The network has transformed its Tuesday night lineup. New Girl returned for a new season last night, and Brooklyn Nine […]
Overnights The Alphabet brought back one of its signature franchises on Monday night, The Bachelor, and the new season got off to a nice start. The Bachelor opened its 20th season with a 2.2 rating among adults 18-49, making it the highest-rated program of the night (barely ahead of Scorpion in 18-49). The season premiere also brought […]
Overnights NBC Sunday Night Football ended its season with a bang, as the Vikings victory over the Packers in the de-facto NFC North Championship Game hauled in an impressive 7.9 rating in adults 18-49 and over 24.3 million viewers. That total viewers figure is up +17% from the 2014 finale. The series posted its most-watched and […]
Overnights College football kept on rolling this past weekend, with ESPN’s presentation of the Alamo Bowl finishing as Saturday night’s #1 program by a wide margin. TCU’s shocking, come-from-behind victory over Oregon in the Alamo Bowl averaged a 2.0 in adults 18-49 to go with 7.4 million viewers in total. NBC’s Dateline Mystery was the #1 broadcast […]
Overnights ESPN was the #1 network on the #1 day of 2016. The 102nd Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual was the #1 program of the day. ESPN’s late-afternoon presentation of the revered event averaged a 3.6 rating in adults 18-49 and over 13.5 million total viewers. Ratings for the 2016 Rose Bowl Game telecast, featuring a Stanford blowout […]
Overnights Year one of ESPN’s New Years Eve College Football Playoff experiment didn’t work, as numbers for the CFP semifinal games were significantly down year-over-year. The fact that both games were blowouts probably didn’t help either. Michigan State and Alabama (CFP semifinal #2 – Cotton Bowl) faced off in primetime, with Alabama earning a 38-0 victory. The […]
Overnights (Sorted by Adults 18-49, Live + Same Day Data) Originator Program Telecast Date Telecast Time Common Day of Week Indicators P18-49 Rtg% P18-49 Proj (000 s) P25-54 Rtg% ) P25-54 Proj (000 s) P2+ Proj (000 s) ESPN COLL FTBL BOWL GAME L 12/30/2015 7:12 PM WEDNESDAY (T)(L)(E-O)(P-O) 1.5 1885 1.8 2090 5423 ABC […]
Overnights (Sorted by Adults 18-49, Live + Same Day Data) Originator Program Telecast Date Telecast Time Common Day of Week Indicators P18-49 Rtg% P18-49 Proj (000 s) P25-54 Rtg % P25-54 Proj (000 s) P2+ Proj (000 s) ESPN COLL FTBL BOWL GAME L 12/29/2015 9:24 PM TUESDAY (T)(L)(E-O)(P-O) 1.6 1991 1.8 2136 4958 CBS […]
Overnights (Sorted by Adults 18-49, Live + Same Day Data) Originator Program Telecast Date Telecast Time Common Day of Week Indicators P18-49 Rtg % P18-49 Proj (000 s) P25-54 Rtg% P25-54 Proj (000 s) P2+ Proj (000 s) ESPN NFL REGULAR SEASON L (CIN vs. DEN) 12/28/2015 8:15 PM MONDAY (T)(L)(E-O)(P-O) 4.8 6095 5.8 […]
Overnights (Sorted by Adults 18-49, Live + Same Day Data) Originator Program Telecast Date Telecast Time Common Day of Week Indicators P18-49 Rtg % P18-49 Proj (000 s) P25-54 Rtg % P25-54 Proj (000 s) P2+ Proj (000 s) NBC NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (NYG vs. MIN) 12/27/2015 8:31 PM SUNDAY 5.79 7343 6.79 8066 […]
Overnights (Sorted by Adults 18-49, Final Live + Same Day Data) Originator Program Telecast Date Telecast Time Common Day of Week Indicators P18-49 Rtg% P18-49 Proj (000 s) P25-54 Rtg% P25-54 Proj (000 s) P2+ Proj (000 s) NFL NETWORK THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (WAS vs. PHI) 12/26/2015 8:27 PM SATURDAY (L)(E-O)(P-O) 2.54 3219 […]
Christmas Overnights (Sorted by Adults 18-49, Final Live + Same Day Data) The NBA received presents in the form of ratings on Christmas Day. The marquee game of the season, Cleveland vs. Golden State, but up strong numbers relative to last Christmas: 3.9 in adults 18-49 and 11.2 million total viewers. The Christmas 2014 marquee game […]