The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 19 and Sunday December 20, 2015. 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 full week sports ratings for Monday May 6 through Sunday May 12, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K 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 for the same […]

Game 7 of the World Series Wednesday night averaged a 5.6 adult 18-49 fast national rating, which we are estimating will go up to around a 6.6 6.64 adult 18-49 rating in the official nationals (after time zone adjustment for this live telecast).  Another record low, but not enormously off the pace of the previous low […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday May 31 through Sunday June 6, 2021.  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 two years […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  THE WINTER OLYMPICS gained only 0.1 in adjusted numbers, bringing it to 5.0, more than a point behind Vancouver and more than 3 points behind Turin for the night.  (Don’t even ask about Salt Lake City.)  At least the afternoon adjustments gave the Games something, though–AMERICAN IDOL stayed at its awful, all-time […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 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, October 7-8, […]

  NBC:  See Mitch Metcalf’s Skedball post for detailed analysis of the Sochi WINTER OLYMPICS ratings.  Last night’s preliminary 4.5 slumped badly, down 1.4 from Thursday and below all 3 of the previous Winter Games on the parallel night.  NBC will hope this drop was solely due to Valentine’s Day.  Despite the over 2 point […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday May 26-27, 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, May 27-28, […]