Last night’s Winter Olympic coverage on NBC in primetime averaged a 4.9 adult 18-49 rating from 8:00-11:00 pm, but that rating increases to a 5.2 if the 8:00-8:30 half hour is excluded for being free of national commercials.  Either way, it’s a disaster for a night containing the finals of Ladies’ Figure Skating, THE marquee […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 20 and Sunday September 21, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 3 Sunday 12.2 rating FOX 1 or 4 pm Single (1pm: WAS-PHI DAL-STL MIN-NO […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday February 3 through Sunday February 9, 2020.  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 January 11 through Sunday January 17, 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. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

  NBC:  See Mitch Metcalf’s Skedball post for detailed analysis and charts of WINTER OLYMPICS ratings.  Last night’s 3.5 (which may adjust up to 3.6 if the network ran the 8PM half-hour without commercials) will in any case mark a historic low for Winter Olympics primetime network coverage, down almost a point from Turin’s parallel […]

NBC’s Winter Olympic coverage from Sochi last night averaged a 5.6 adult 18-49 rating from 8:00-11:00 pm, actually above an unusually weak comparable night in Vancouver (5.4 rating) but well below Turin’s 6.8 rating on the same night. Last night’s coverage included: Ice Dancing Final, Men’s Aerials Final and Bobsled 2-Man Final.  A rather limited menu […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 20 and Sunday December 21, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 16 Saturday 4.8 rating NFL Network 4:30 pm Philadelphia at Washington 8.9 rating CBS+NFL […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 25 and Sunday July 26, 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 RBC […]