NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT won the demo most valued by news advertisers for the month of August, marking its 26th straight month at #1, according to Nielsen data.
An encore week of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has won the late-night ratings week of Aug. 21-25 versus the rebroadcast ABC and CBS time-period competition in every key measure – adults, men and women 18-34
NBC News' TODAY was the number-one morning show outright topping ABC's “Good Morning America” for two days straight in total viewers and all demos last Wednesday and Thursday.
Showbiz 411 reports that the MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS continue their ratings struggle. The 2017 Edition of the VMAs brought in 5.3 million viewers across all platforms (only 2.6 million watched on TV). This number is down by over a million from last year, which brought in 6.5 million viewers.
DUCKTALES, a new comedy adventure series based on the beloved classic, fit the bill with a one-hour television movie premiere ('Woo-oo!,' August 11, 12:00 a.m.) that is now Disney XD's #1 original animated telecast in 17 months among Kids 2-11
Ratings were up double-digits for all three of ESPN's Little League World Series Championship games on ABC this past weekend, according to metered market ratings from Nielsen. Sunday's Little League World Series Championship Game, in which Japan won its fourth title, generated a 2.1 rating, up 24 percent from a 1.7 for the 2016 title game.
An Aug. 26 encore of 'Saturday Night Live,' with host Aziz Ansari and musical guest Big Sean, has averaged a 2.5 rating, 7 share in households in Nielsen's 56 metered markets and a 0.8/4 in 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
This is NBC's 32nd win over the last 34 Tuesdays among the Big 4 networks in adults 18-49. In total viewers, it's NBC's 13th Tuesday win in a row among those nets.
Telemundo, the contemporary Spanish-language network for Hispanics in America, continues its historic winning streak ranking as the #1 Spanish-language network during Monday-Friday 8-11 p.m. primetime for the fourth consecutive week
NBC Sports Group is gearing up for the 2017 NASCAR Playoffs with considerable momentum. Through the first two months of NBC and NBCSN's live race coverage, NBC Sports Group's telecasts of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series have ranked as the most-watched sporting event on six of eight weekends – up from two of eight last year, and one of eight in 2015.
THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT averaged 3.15m viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for the week ending August 18. THE LATE SHOW topped “The Tonight Show” by +770,000 viewers (3.15m vs. 2.38m, +32%), the program's second largest margin of victory, only trailing the week ending August 4 when THE LATE SHOW won by +900,000 viewers.
NBC News' TODAY was the number-one morning show topping ABC's “Good Morning America” yet again in the key demo A25-54 for the week. TODAY has now won 102 of the last 103 weeks in the key demo (86 straight weeks), its best streak in more than four years.
TV One's original series RICKEY SMILEY FOR REAL experienced its third consecutive week of ranking among Cable's Top 3 Rated Telecasts in its time-slot among African American P25-54, and its second consecutive week of growth among Total Households, W25-54 , W18-49 & P2+.
This is NBC's 31st win over the last 33 Tuesdays among the Big 4 networks in adults 18-49. In total viewers, it's NBC's 12th Tuesday win in a row among those nets
Featuring “Bachelor in Paradise” and “Somewhere Between,” ABC ranked No. 2 on Tuesday night in Adults 18-49 (1.3/5) to an “America's Got Talent”-led NBC.
CBS SUNDAY MORNING, the nation's #1 Sunday morning news program, posted year-to-year gains in viewers, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for August 13.
During the week of August 7, 2017, ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE shot up over the prior week by 20% in Total Viewers (2.087 million vs. 1.733 million), drawing its largest audience in 8 weeks – since the week of 6/12/17. In fact, excluding this year's NBA Finals-led weeks, “Kimmel” attracted its biggest weekly audience so far this summer.
With winning performances from the season premiere of “Bachelor in Paradise” and a special airing of “The Gong Show,” ABC led Monday in Adults 18-49 (1.3/5), taking first place on the evening for the 5th consecutive week.
NBC News' MEET THE PRESS WITH CHUCK TODD was the #1 most-watched Sunday public affairs program across the board on August 13, according to Nielsen data.
Delivering his top averages since June, “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has finished #1 for the late-night ratings week of Aug. 7-11 versus its ABC and CBS time-period competition in every key demographic – adults, men and women 18-34
USA Network's THE SINNER is now the #1 new cable series of 2017 in P18-49, P25-54 and total viewers,* two episodes into its eight episode series run. After a strong series premiere, THE SINNER, from Universal Cable Productions and starring Jessica Biel and Bill Pullman, grew in its second week
Last Sunday's series premiere of E!'s LIFE OF KYLIE featuring two back-to-back episodes, averaged 1.6 million total viewers, 1.0 P18-49, 633k P18-34 and 506k W18-34, ranking as the highest-rated new docuseries launch of the year to date among P/W 12-17 and P/W18-34
