TV Ratings
Olympics Close With Huge Ratings Gains for NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal will always have Paris — the setting for a huge bounceback for its Summer Olympics efforts. The company says the 2024 Olympics, which closed Sunday with a ceremony from Stade de France and a handoff to the next summer games in Los Angeles, averaged a combined 30.6 million viewers across all platforms for its “Paris […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘House of the Dragon’ Climbs to No. 1 Overall
Overall streaming numbers for July 8-14 came down a fair amount from the record-breaking previous week. HBO’s House of the Dragon, however, was virtually even with its prior viewing total — which was good enough to move it to the top spot for the first time. House of the Dragon amassed 1.27 billion minutes of viewing […]
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TV Ratings: ‘House of Dragon’ Finale Scores Season High
The season finale of House of the Dragon may have left some viewers underwhelmed, but a lot of them tuned in. The HBO series drew its largest first-night audience of the season on Sunday with 8.9 million viewers across all platforms. That’s a 14 percent improvement over the season premiere in June and about 800,000 […]
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Streaming Milestone: Nielsen Records Biggest Week Ever for U.S. Viewing
The week that includes the July 4 holiday is usually a big one for streaming services — but it’s never been as big as this year. Nielsen’s streaming content ratings show the week of July 1-7 as the biggest one ever since the measurement firm began regularly tracking streaming several years ago. TV users spent […]
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Olympics Bring Huge Audiences to NBCUniversal Over Opening Weekend
The opening weekend of the 2024 Olympics has NBCUniversal saying “Vive la France.” Through the first three full days of the games, NBCU is averaging 34.5 million viewers across all of its linear networks and digital platforms for its primary telecasts. The ratings figures include both what it calls “Paris Prime” — 2-5 p.m. ET […]
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TV Ratings: Olympics Opening Ceremony Draws Biggest Audience for Summer Games Since 2012
The first ever waterborne Olympics opening ceremony drew a big audience for NBCUniversal on Friday. The official start of the Paris games drew 28.6 million viewers on the broadcast network and Peacock, along with about 670,000 more on Telemundo, according custom fast national figures from Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. That’s the biggest audience for a […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘The Bear’ Hits All-Time High With Season 3 Premiere
In the parlance of the times, The Bear absolutely ate in the week of its third season premiere. The FX-produced Hulu show had its biggest streaming week to date for the June 24-30 period. The Emmy-winning series, whose third season premiered June 27, racked up 1.23 billion minutes of viewing for the week — beating its […]
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TV Ratings: 29M Viewers Watch Biden’s Oval Office Address on Ending Campaign
President Joe Biden’s Oval Office address on ending his re-election campaign Wednesday drew a large TV audience. Nearly 29 million people — 28.9 million, to be precise — watched the 15-minute speech at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT across 15 broadcast and cable networks, according to final same-day Nielsen ratings. ABC had the largest single-network audience for […]
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‘The Boys’ Season 4 Has 55M Worldwide Viewers, Amazon Claims
Season four of The Boys is among the biggest series Prime Video has ever offered, at least according to internal viewing figures from the Amazon-owned streamer. The company says 55 million people worldwide have watched at least part of the season from its June 13 premiere through July 21 (a span of 39 days), three […]
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TV Ratings: WNBA All-Star Game Shatters All-Time Viewer High
The WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday drew the contest’s biggest audience ever — by a huge margin. The game, which pitted the U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team against WNBA stars not selected for the Paris games, drew 3.44 million viewers on ABC, per Nielsen — 2 million more than the previous high All-Star Game high, set back […]
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Netflix Moves Into Top Four Media Distributors in June
In a record month for streaming, it’s not a big surprise that the two biggest platforms took high places in among media distributors in June. What is notable, however, is just how high: Netflix ranked fourth among all media companies in share of TV use in the United States, its best mark to date in […]
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Fox News Draws Biggest Audience for Breaking Coverage of Biden’s Withdrawal
Fox News drew the largest audience Sunday for breaking news coverage of President Joe Biden withdrawing from the 2024 campaign. Cable news channels and broadcast networks were largely caught by surprise at the announcement, which the president delivered via social media about 1:45 p.m. ET on Sunday. Fox News had the news out first, at […]
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