With the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio now history, here’s a look at the audience trends in every age category, from young children to retirees.  Each group behaved differently across the 17 nights of the Games, providing NBC with some hope for certain audience segment but much consternation regarding the important 18-34 audience. Opening Ceremony. The […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday April 18 through Sunday April 24, 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 November 1 and Sunday November 2, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 9 Sunday 14.2 rating FOX 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly ARI-DAL) 7.8 rating […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday January 17 through Sunday January 23, 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 July 18 and Sunday July 19, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year. Golf British […]

Game 3 of the World Series Friday night on FOX averaged a 3.1 adult 18-49 (3.08 more precisely) in the official national ratings, below the recent 2007-2013 average of a 3.5 adult 18-49 rating for Game 3 but above the previous lows for Game 3 in 2012 (2.8) and 2010 (2.9), also featuring the San Francisco Giants […]

Tuesday’s ESPN coverage of the World Cup featured two matches that had average ratings, and a third match (in the tough 11:30 am time period) that is the lowest-rated so far.  (Yesterday’s match are bolded in the table below.)  But 2014 is still pacing well ahead of 2010.  ESPN matches to date in 2014 are averaging 3.8 million […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 13 and Sunday June 14, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year. NBA Playoffs […]