Ratings News
NFL Week 1 viewership: Both Fox windows up in overall viewership, CBS, NBC, ESPN down
A good day for Fox, and a rough start to the year for NBC.
NFL Week 1 viewership: Chiefs-Texans averages 20.3 million viewers, down from 22.7 million viewers for 2019’s NFL opener
The 2020 NFL season started on a down note for NBC. The Chiefs-Texas opener averaged 20.3 million viewers...
Univision/TUDN Spanish-language UEFA Champions League Final coverage averaged 2.05 million viewers, the best U.S. numbers since 2015
Spanish-language coverage of the UEFA Champions League Final Sunday averaged 2.05 million viewers on Univision and TUDN, a 41 percent jump over their coverage last year.
Hard Knocks premiere ratings well under expectations
The premiere averaged just 273,000 viewers, a huge drop from last year's premiere episode.
TUDN drew 1.1 million viewers for Barcelona-Napoli on Saturday, the most-watched Champions League R16 game ever in the US
TUDN's viewership for the return of the UEFA Champions League was staggering.
ESPN’s MLB Opening Day game averaged 4 million viewers, most-watched regular season game since 2011
The game's viewership peaked with 4,480,000 viewers at 8:30 p.m. ET.
After network complaints, Nielsen will stick to original out-of-home measurement plan this fall
Networks clearly weren't happy at the prospect of having to renegotiate ad sales for the fall amidst the current pandemic.
Nielsen delays out-of-home measurement changes, and networks aren’t happy about it
Networks sold ads factoring in the out-of-home boost, which was set to favor sports more than any other programming.
Not surprisingly, the NFL Draft and The Last Dance dominate sports viewing without live events
Repeats of past events aren't among the most-viewed sports telecasts.
WWE Raw set an all-time low in viewers Monday
The average of 1.68 million viewers for Monday's WWE Raw was the worst number the show had ever recorded.
ESPN averaged 6.3 million viewers for The Last Dance’s first episode, 6.1 million viewers across episodes 1 and 2
The audience for The Last Dance's first two episodes ranks as the most-watched telecast among adults 18-34 and 18-49 since sports halted across broadcast and cable networks.
ESPN lost 62 percent of its year-over-year audience for the week ending April 12th
ESPN is one of the cable channels hardest-hit (in terms of viewership) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wrestling fans are checking out of WWE’s Raw & Smackdown closed-set broadcasts
Not the news you want to hear headed into WrestleMania...
CBS, Turner executives seem confident that an NCAA Tournament without fans won’t affect ratings
There's a compelling argument for that, although it's also exactly what they would say otherwise.
