Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday February 25 through Sunday March 3, 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 […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 7 through Sunday October 13, 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 […]

Saturday remains one tough neighborhood. NBC aired Game 5 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final (Chicago skated to a 3-1 victory over the Boston Bruins, bringing their series lead to 3 games to 2). The game scored a preliminary 1.8 rating with adults 18-49 last night from 8-11 pm, which we are generously estimating will rise […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 18 and Sunday January 19, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   NFL Playoffs: Conference Championships Weekend Sunday 29.5 rating CBS 3:00 AFC New England-Denver (+6% from 27.9 […]

  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 […]

Ratings for Thursday’s matches on ESPN and ESPN2 are in and of course the Germany vs USA match was the highest-rated match of the day, but only the third-highest USA match in World Cup 2014 because ESPN rated 187 minutes for the entire coverage (pre-match, post-match, halftime and the game itself) instead of the usual 150-minute […]

Game 4 of the World Series Saturday night averaged a 2.6 adult 18-49 rating, well below the previous record low for Game 4 (a 4.2 in 2011 for Texas-St. Louis).  Game 5 on Sunday (with many more available viewers) went up to a 3.3 adult 18-49 rating, well below the previous low of 4.1 for Game […]

Chart updated with persons 2+ audiences for the four games played Thursday, March 26, 2015 (Day 1 of 2 in Sweet 16 Round): Telecast 53: CBS 7 pm #3-Notre Dame 81 #7-Wichita State 70 (ND up 33-30 at half) Telecast 54: CBS 9:49 pm #1-Kentucky 78 #5-West Virginia 39 (Kentucky up 44-18 at half) Telecast […]