MEET THE PRESS WITH CHUCK TODD was the #1 most-watched Sunday show for the month of May in the key A25-54 demo. MTP also won every broadcast it aired in May across the board, averaging 3.421 million viewers: +11 percent (+348,000) more than ABC's “This Week.”
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT ranked #1 across the board for the week of May 22, averaging 7.8 million total viewers, leading “ABC World News Tonight” by +265,000 viewers (+4%) and “CBS Evening News” by +1.6 million viewers (+25%).
MSNBC finished the month of May as the #1 cable news network in A25-54 for weekday prime (M-F 8-11pm) according to Nielsen, beating both FOX News and CNN in the daypart for the 1sttime since September 2000.
CBS THIS MORNING finished the 2016-2017 television season with CBS' best overall morning news viewer delivery in at least 29 years (since the advent of people meters in 1987), according to Nielsen most current ratings.
NBC News' TODAY was the number-one morning show for the May sweep topping ABC's “Good Morning America” in the key demo A25-54, its biggest May sweep demo win over GMA in five years.
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT ranked #1 in the demo for the May 2017 sweep period, averaging 1.7 million A25-54 viewers, leading “ABC World News Tonight” by +177,000 viewers (+12%) and “CBS Evening News” by 411,000 viewers
ABC's reboot of the 1980's classic film DIRTY DANCING did not deliver a strong rating's performance Wednesday night, coming well below the Season Finale of CBS's SURVIVOR.
The season finale of LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT locks up the show's highest 18-49 rating since Feb. 22 (1.3). Delivers its most-watched episode since Feb. 8 (6.9 million).
'Dateline NBC' ranked #1 across the board among Friday newsmagazines for the May 2016 sweep period, averaging 4.6 million total viewers and outperforming ABC's '20/20' by +1.3 million total viewers (+39%).
With guests U2 on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, ABC's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE spiked 33% over the week-ago night in Households (2.0/5 vs. 1.5/4) in the 56 Metered Markets to its strongest Tuesday telecast in 6 months – since 11/22/16.
ABC's THE VIEW averaged 2.637 million Total Viewers, 500,000 Women 25-54 and 345,000 Women 18-49 during the week of May 15, 2017, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.
CBS SUNDAY MORNING is the #1 Sunday morning news program for the 14th consecutive season, according to Nielsen's most current ratings for the 2016-2017 broadcast season. The broadcast delivered 5.98 million viewers and a 1.2/07 with adults 25-54, the demographic that matters most to those who advertise in news.
60 MINUTES finished its 49th season up +1 percent in viewers – the only broadcast newsmagazine to gain audience over the 2016-2017 television season. The CBS newsmagazine is averaging 12.39 million viewers, according to the current Nielsen estimates. It ended last season averaging 12.3 million.
With three nights remaining in the season, THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT has overtaken “The Tonight Show” as the most watched late night program and will win the traditional broadcast season in viewers, according to Nielsen most current ratings through May 19.
Featuring night 1 of the DANCING WITH THE STARS season finale and “The Bachelorette” season premiere, ABC won the final Monday of the season/sweep in Adults 18-49, upsetting runner-up NBC with “The Voice” by 13% (1.8/7 vs. 1.6/6) and hitting its highest rating on the night since March
NBC has clinched first place for the traditional September-to-May season in primetime's key demographic of adults 18-49, marking the network's third win in four years.
MEET THE PRESS WITH CHUCK TODD (MTP) won the key demo for the 2017 May Sweep, outperforming its competition by double-digits and continuing its season-to-date lead as #1 across the board, according to Nielsen data.
CBS News' FACE THE NATION was the #1 Sunday morning public affairs program with over 4 million viewers on May 21, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings.
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH LESTER HOLT ranked #1 in the demo for the week of May 15, averaging 1.7 million A25-54 viewers, leading “ABC World News Tonight” by +170,000 viewers (+11%) and “CBS Evening News” by +359,000 viewers (+26%).
With the season closer of “America's Funniest Home Videos” and the “2017 Billboard Music Awards,” against season finales on the other nets, ABC more than doubled its nearest broadcast competition during Sunday's primetime among Adults 18-49 (+150% - 2.0/8 vs. 0.8/3 – NBC and Fox tied).