NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT won the key demo for the week of September 11, marking its 65th straight week as the #1 most-watched evening broadcast according to Nielsen Research Data.
Once again, more viewers turn to NBC News' TODAY during breaking news. For the week of 9/4, TODAY was the number-one morning show outright topping ABC's Good Morning America in total viewers and all demos
On Wednesday, September 13, 2017, ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVEdelivered its highest-rated telecast on any night in 3 months in Households (2.1/6) in the 56 Metered Markets since Monday, 6/12/17, following Game 5 of the 2017 NBA Finals.
NBC has dominated the primetime ratings week of Sept. 4-10 in adults 18-49, total viewers and all other key measures, claiming four of the top six primetime entertainment shows of the week on the Big 4 networks in 18-49 and four of the top four in total viewers.
NBC's TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON has delivered its top-rated week in nearly six months to earn ratings wins for the week of Sept. 4-8 versus the timeslot competition on ABC and CBS in every key demographic adults, men and women 18-34; adults, men and women 18-49
THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT won Labor Day week in viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Sept. 8, which excluded all Monday late night rebroadcasts. THE LATE SHOW averaged 2.89m viewers, up +46% from the same week last year (1.98m). THE LATE SHOW beat The Tonight Show in viewers by +9% (2.89m vs. 2.64m).
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT won the key demo for the week of September 4, marking its 64th straight week as the #1 most-watched evening broadcast.
In a heavy news week, CBS THIS MORNING posted the largest year-to-year gain in viewers for a network morning news broadcast, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending Sept. 8, 2017.
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT, the groundbreaking and award-winning anthology series from Co-Creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, drew 4.56 million Adults 18-49 and 6.91 million Total Viewers for its premiere telecast
During its final half-hour from 10:30-11:00 p.m. as Miss North Dakota Cara Mund was crowned, The Miss America Competition pulled in 6.3 million viewers and a 1.3 rating, 5 share with young adults.
On a night where millions of viewers lost electricity due to Hurricane Irma and opposite big NFL-fueled competition from the season opener of NBC's Sunday Night Football (New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys) and Fox's NFL overrun-inflated lineup with the highly promoted series debut of The Orville, ABC's Sunday 9:00-11:00 p.m. broadcast of The 2018 Miss America Competition built on its lead-in and surged by 1.3 million viewers
Saturday's US Open Women's Championship on ESPN – a battle of young American women in which unseeded Sloane Stephens convincingly triumphed over No. 15 Madison Key 6-3, 6-0 – earned a 1.9 overnight rating in the metered markets for the match portion of the three-hour telecast, 36% higher than last year's women's final from New York.
With “Bachelor in Paradise,” back-to-back repeats of “black-ish” and “Somewhere Between,” ABC delivered the No. 2 network position on Tuesday night in Adults 18-49 (0.7/3) to an “America's Got Talent”-led NBC.
NBC has finished #2 in adults 18-49 and total viewers for the primetime ratings week of Aug. 28-Sept. 3, led by the #1-2 primetime entertainment shows of the week on those nets in both categories, the Tuesday and Wednesday telecasts of AMERICA'S GOT TALENT
An encore week of THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON has taken the late-night ratings week of Aug. 28-Sept. 1 versus the rebroadcast time-period competition on ABC and CBS in every key measure – adults, men and women 18-34
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today it has ordered more episodes of the hit docu-series BLACK LOVE which debuted Tuesday (8/29/17) with 1.2 million total viewers and a 0.89 rating for W25-54, becoming OWN's most-watched unscripted series debut in OWN history
The premiere of TV One's original film, WHEN LOVE KILLS: THE FALICIA BLAKELY STORY, brought in 1.2 million unique viewers (1.6 million unique viewers for the night). When Love Kills now ranks as TV One's #1 original movie premiere of all time among all key demos: HH: 1.00/598K| P2+: 0.49/759K| P25-54: 0.69/409K. This was also TV One's best Monday Prime Performance of all time among P25-54.
Telemundo, the contemporary Spanish-language network for Hispanics in America, is ending the summer as the #1 Spanish-language network during Monday-Friday 8-11 p.m. primetime in adults 18-49 (806,000) and adults 18-34 (367,000), according to Nielsen.
With “Bachelor in Paradise” and “Somewhere Between,” ABC once again earned the No. 2 network position on Tuesday night in Adults 18-49 (1.0/4) to an “America's Got Talent”-led NBC. ABC spiked 25% week to week in Adults 18-49, delivering its top-rated Tuesday this summer.
Oxygen Media's 'The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway' debuted as the highest rated true crime series premiere in network history, with a cumulative 1.1 Million total viewers on premiere night wanting to see the real-time investigation that continues to make headlines across the country.
Sunday's second season premiere of UNIVERSO's first original scripted series EL VATO delivered 96,000 total viewers and 68,000 adults 18-49, according to Nielsen.
NBC has dominated the ratings week of Aug. 21-27 among the Big 4 networks in the key demographic of adults 18-49, as well as total viewers, led by the #1, 2 and 3 primetime shows of the week on those nets in both categories
