TV Ratings
‘Monday Night Football’ Hits 27-Year Ratings High
A Super Bowl rematch on Monday Night Football brought in a huge audience — the biggest one for any TV broadcast, in fact, since the Super Bowl. The Philadelphia Eagles’ 21-17 win over the Kansas City Chiefs drew better than 29 million viewers across all platforms, the most for a Monday Night Football telecast in […]
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TV Ratings: ‘NCIS: Sydney’ Launches to Big U.S. Audience
The NCIS franchise’s first international edition got a warm welcome for its stateside premiere. The debut of NCIS: Sydney on CBS delivered the biggest audience for a new series so far this fall and has accumulated nearly 10 million viewers in the six days after its Nov. 14 premiere. The show also scored well for […]
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Sports Fuel More Broadcast Gains in October
For the second straight month, broadcast networks increased their share of TV use — and for the second straight month, sports was the primary driver of those gains. Nielsen’s monthly Gauge rankings for October show broadcast networks capturing 24.6 percent of TV use in the United States, up from 23 percent in September and the […]
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‘Goosebumps’ Scares Up Top 10 Spot in Streaming Rankings
The run-up to Halloween proved to be a good time to release a new version of Goosebumps. The series based on R.L. Stine’s beloved books broke into the top 10 overall for the week of Oct. 16-22. The show, which streams on both Disney+ and Hulu, racked up 594 million minutes of viewing for its […]
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‘Loki’ Finale Inches Up From Season 2 Premiere
The season two finale of Loki drew an audience in line with that of its premiere — a pattern that repeated throughout the season, according to Disney+. According to figures from the streamer, the finale brought in 11.2 million views worldwide in the three days after its Nov. 9 premiere, with a “view” defined by the […]
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TV Ratings: Third Republican Debate Slumps
The TV audience for the third Republican presidential primary debate fell off considerably on Wednesday. The CMA Awards also narrowly avoided posting its smallest viewer tally ever. The Republican debate aired on NBC (but not cable siblings MSNBC or CNBC) and drew 7.5 million viewers on the network, Peacock and other streaming and digital platforms. […]
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‘House of Usher’ Claims Streaming No. 1, Displacing ‘Suits’
For only the second time since mid-June, Suits is not the No. 1 title in Nielsen’s streaming rankings. That honor belongs to Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher, which snagged the top spot for the week of Oct. 9-15. Writer-director Mike Flanagan’s spin on the titular Edgar Allan Poe story (and several others […]
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‘Loki’ Debuts Lower in Streaming Rankings
The return of Loki to Disney+ didn’t cause quite as big a stir as the show’s debut. Season two of the Marvel series premiered Oct. 5, and it gathered 446 million minutes of viewing time over its first three days and change (it was released at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT Oct. 5 in the […]
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TV Ratings: 22M Watch Biden Address on Israel, Ukraine
President Joe Biden’s Oval Office address Thursday evening drew a sizable audience. Across six broadcast networks and the three biggest cable news channels, the address — in which the president laid out the case for continued aid to Israel and Ukraine — averaged a little over 22 million viewers (22.12 million). Broadcast networks pushed their regular primetime […]
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‘Suits’ Reclaims No. 1 Streaming Ranking
After a week in second place, Suits returned to the top of the streaming charts, extending its record run as the No. 1 overall title in Nielsen’s weekly rankings. Netflix’s Sex Education also scored well for the week of its final season premiere, and a pair of HBO series joined the rankings after their Netflix […]
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Netflix’s Ted Sarandos: More Streaming Data Transparency Is Coming
After years of keeping viewing data under lock and key, streamers have become a little more open about sharing numbers publicly in the past two years. Netflix’s Ted Sarandos says he expects that trend to continue — and also defended the earlier practice as a part of a “promise” to the company’s creative partners. “We’re heading […]
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NFL Drives Broadcast, Amazon Viewing Bumps in September
The opening of the NFL and college football seasons gave broadcasters a significant gain in TV viewing in September. Amazon’s Prime Video got a boost too. Broadcast networks drew 23 percent of all TV use in the United States in September, according to Nielsen’s monthly Gauge report. That’s up from 20.4 percent in August and […]
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