The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) NFL Week 2.  The 4:30 game on CBS was the big winner on yesterday’s NFL coverage (17.8 household rating […]

  It was American Idol‘s turn to feel the Olympics pain. NBC:  See Mitch Metcalf’s SKEDBALL post for details on last night’s Sochi ratings.  After an uptick on Tuesday, Wednesday’s WINTER OLYMPICS coverage fell to 5.6, down a full point from the previous day, and also back to being below the last 3 winter games […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday May 24 and Sunday May 25, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   NBA: Playoffs 4.9 rating ESPN 8:30 pm Saturday Indiana Pacers at Miami Heat Game 3 […]

Updated: The ABC ratings for daytime last Sunday are finally in and the 224-minute telecast of the FIFA World Cup Final (from 2:00-5:44 pm ET) averaged over 14 million viewers, making it the #1 match of 2014 on English-language television, slightly ahead of three USA matches (#2 USA vs Portugal on June 22 with 13,774,000 total […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 10 and Sunday January 11, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Divisional Playoffs Saturday 20.9 rating NBC 4:30 pm Baltimore at New England 18.8 rating FOX […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 1 and Sunday August 2, 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 PGA: […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday July 23-24, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K 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, July […]

The College Football Playoff Semifinal games on New Year’s Eve provided some welcome news for ESPN and Disney, with both games up versus last year’s low levels (especially the afternoon window which was up +23% from last year).  The 19.3 million viewers 2+ for the 3:12 pm game (Alabama def. Washington 24-7) includes 18.4 million in […]