LA Suits “underwhelmed” in the ratings in US as well. The Americas did well for NBC.
The 97th annual Academy Awards saw drew 18.07M viewers across ABC and Hulu on Sunday night, per Disney.
Likely not the number that the Mouse House was hoping for, considering it’s a bit of a decline over the past two years. It was about a 7% decrease from last year’s four-year audience high of 19.5M viewers and was just slightly lower than the year prior, when 18.8M tuned in for the 95th annual Academy Awards in 2023.
Donald Trump‘s speech to a joint session of Congress drew an estimated 36.6 million viewers, down from the president’s first term but beating Joe Biden’s initial address in 2021.
The audience was almost 10 million viewers compared to the 26.9 million who watched Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress. Trump’s first address in 2017 drew 47.7 million.
The daytime drama that’s the first to premiere since Passions in 1999 grew to 2.28 million viewers in L+3, up 78 percent from The Talk last year.
CBS says L+3 streaming provided a boost of 13.6 percent over the show’s linear only audience, which was better than The Young and the Restless (10.9%) and The Bold and the Beautiful (12.6%).
L+7-day viewing for the premiere episode averaged 3.0M viewers, higher than the last daytime drama debut, which was Passions on July 5, 1999 (2.96M).
Sunday, Feb. 9 becomes the second most-watched day of TV in Gauge history with over 110 billion total day viewing minutes.
Tubi represented a third of all streaming during the Big Game.
Streaming notches the largest share of TV to date with 43.5%; traditional TV leads by less than a share point with 44.4%.
CBS has been the most-watched daytime network for an impressive 39 consecutive seasons and has won every week during that time except for one. This marks the longest daytime winning streak for any network since reporting began. https://t.co/KG2QN50rxi pic.twitter.com/Ilp5B7aN3S
— CBS Network PR (@CBSNetworkPR) May 12, 2025
… the Emmys drew 7.42M viewers across CBS and Paramount+, marking a four-year viewership high, according to early Nielsen data. It was up 8% from the 76th iteration on ABC last year.
The ratings are well up on last season’s finale, which had 6.37M viewers, while in 18-49s it was up 89% with last season scoring a 1.14 rating. It was, in fact, the strongest demo number for the show since Irwin’s sister Bindi and Derek Hough won in 2015.
That made “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” produced by Dick Clark Prods., again the No. 1 entertainment broadcast special of New Years Eve. The telecast peaked at midnight, when more than 30 million viewers tuned in to usher in the New Year as the ball dropped in Times Square. That was up from 29 million viewers last year.
All told, this year’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” ran for nearly eight hours — the longest in franchise history, since it launched as 1971 turned into 1972. The 2025-into-2026 marathon began at 8 p.m. ET and ended at 4 a.m. ET.
Winter Olympics 2026 TV Ratings Start Strong for NBC and Peacock.
On Saturday, the audience jumped to a combined 28.5 million for live events in the afternoon — on NBC, Peacock and former NBCU/now Versant cable channels USA Network and CNBC — and NBC’s primetime show, nearly doubling the 14.8 million viewers for the first Saturday of the 2022 games. The audience was the largest for any Winter Olympics day in the United States since midway through the 2014 games, a span of 43 Winter Olympics shows.
Super Bowl LX, which saw the Seattle Seahawks defeat the New England Patriots in a defense-heavy game, brought in an average 124.9 million viewers across NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital and NFL+, according to live-plus-same-day Nielsen big data plus panel figures.
That’s down a mere 2.19% from last year’s game, which hit an all-time viewership record as it reached 127.7 million viewers for the Chiefs-Eagles game. Both the 2025 and 2026 Super Bowl surpassed the 2024 game’s viewership of 123.7 million, which, at the time, marked the event’s biggest audience in history. Additionally, Super Bowl LX ranks as the most-watched show in the history of NBCUniversal.
Bad Bunny’s halftime show brought in 128.2 million viewers as it aired from 8:15-8:30 p.m. ET in the U.S., though final global viewership will be available next week.
Additionally, both the Super Bowl and the halftime show soared to their highest Spanish-language viewership, with the game averaging 3.3 million viewers on Telemundo. The Telemundo audience peaked during the halftime show with an average of 4.8 million viewers, marking the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in Spanish-language history.