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 […]
Top Programs of the Week (12/28/2015 – 1/3/2016) 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. The 24.3 million total viewers figure is up +17% from the 2014 […]
Network Performance in Primetime: 12/28/15 – 1/3/16 It was a solid week for The Worldwide Leader in sports, as the network finished #1 by a significant margin thanks to its college football bowl games, specifically the College Football Playoff semifinals. ESPN more than doubled its adults 18-49 average from the previous week, and almost tripled its average total […]
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 […]
Key insight bullets for the month:
Top Programs of the Week (12/21/2015 – 12/27/2015) CABLE Top Ten Primetime Cable Series of the Week ( A18-49 rtg%): The Top 100 (Overnights) 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 […]
Network Performance in Primetime: 12/21/15 – 12/27/15 All Nielsen-Measured Networks Sorted by Adults 18-49, Live+SD Data: Dates Daypart Viewing Source P18-49 Rtg% P18-49 Proj (000 s) P25-54 Rtg% P25-54 Proj (000 s) P2+ Proj (000 s) Week of 12/21/2015 Cable Prime ESPN 1.03 1308 1.19 1417 3514 Week of 12/21/2015 Cable Prime ABC FAMILY 0.88 1115 […]
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 […]