Updated ratings for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament through the third Saturday of March Madness (the Semfinals). Two games have been added to the CBS averages. CBS is now averaging over 7.7 million viewers 2+ for the tournament to date this year, up a big +28% from last year and the best performance in recent years, as […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday July 13 through Sunday July 19, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  Here are some additional weekend sports ratings Formula One Racing – Sunday 1.05 HH rating NBC 2PM racing from Austin 0.7 rating NBC 3:45PM post-race coverage International Skating – Sunday 1.22 rating NBC 4:30PM Ironman World Championship – Saturday 0.84 rating NBC 4:30PM EARLIER: The ratings below are household ratings from the […]

  UPDATE:  As expected, the WINTER OLYMPICS CLOSING CEREMONY and GROWING UP FISHER adjusted to 3.2 and 2.0.  THE AMAZING RACE fell to an even lower all-time low premiere at 1.5, and 60 MINUTES was also down 0.1 to 1.3. SUNDAY CABLE:  As had been previously reported, THE WALKING DEAD (AMC) was its usual giant […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 2 and Sunday January 3, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same NFL and college football weekend or the same calendar weekend […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday January 6-7, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, January 7-8, […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday February 28 through Sunday March 6, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 11 and Sunday October 12, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 6 Sunday 10.6 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly DEN-NYJ, SD-OAK, PIT-CLE) […]