US Television Ratings

Are you personally interested in all these programs whose ratings you post? Or do you just post random ratings results? Just curious.

No, I am just interested in the programs that get an airing in Australia. With Zoo for example, with ratings like that, Ten may think it’s not worth to show it on the main channel like last season, and send it to One or Eleven instead.

OK. fair enough. I didn’t even realise this was on Ten last year. Care Factor Zero. :laughing:

I don’t think Ten are showing it on the main channel. I believe they have slotted it on Eleven or One for Saturday 8:30. Not 100% sure though.

Son of Zorn has a decent premiere on Fox up against NFL Sunday Night Football, with a demo rating of 2.4. Eleven will show it here later this year.

The first ever Twitter live streaming of an NFL regular season match was a great success. Thursday’s clash between Buffalo Bills and New York Jets averaged 243,000 viewers. A total of 2.3 million people tuned into Thursday’s game or pre-game show on Twitter for at least three seconds, according to the NFL. The Twitter streaming of Thursday Night Football can be seen in Australia.

Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards hosted by Jimmy Kimmel were the least-watched Emmys in US TV history, due to serious competition from NFL on NBC and part 1 of The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey on CBS. Updated figures from ABC put the show at 11.3 million viewers and a 2.8 rating among adults 18-49. That’s down from 11.87 million and a 3.6 for FOX’s telecast of the awards last year. In comparison, NFL got a 7.4 and 20.49 million viewers while Ramsey pulled a 2.1 and 10.29 million viewers.

Really? Or due to increasingly, a lack of interest in award shows these days and the low-key, lacklustre hosting of Jimmy Kimmel.

The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey saw its demo rating dipping from 2.1 on Sunday to 1.8 on Monday, on a night dominated by season premieres of The Big Bang Theory and The Voice.

Two new dramas began on Tuesday with good ratings: This is Us on NBC (2.8 18-49 demo rating, 10.07 million viewers) and Bull, starring Michael Weatherly (2.2, 15.56 million). Both will air here on Channel Ten.

The latest season of Survivor premiered to a 18-49 demo rating of 2.3 and 9.46 million viewers on Wednesday, down from 2.5 last season. It was just ahead of the premiere of Lethal Weapon (2.2), based on the movie series of the same name.

The Newest Sitcom Aired Last Night in the States, Speechless has gotten Praise from Critics for showing a Kid Cerebal Palsy, I think When it Debuts on Australian TV when it gets a Chance, Viewers will be Hooked on it too.

Thanks for the recommendation. It had me in stitches. Fantastic new comedy.

The first Presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday was the most-watched Presidential debate in US history. According to TV by the Numbers, the commercial channels carrying the debate (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Univision, Telemundo, CNBC and Fox Business) averaged 81.4 million viewers, just edging the October 1980 debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (80.6 million). PBS averaged an additional 3 million, bringing the total to 84.4 million. Many had predicted the debate would attract between 80 million and 100 million viewers. NBC had the biggest audience of the debate (18.16 million) and biggest 18-49 demo rating (5.8), no doubt helped by the fact that Lester Holt was the moderator.

NBC has NFL against the next debate, and the O&O NBC stations haven’t bothered to schedule the debate on a multichannel.

The second presidential debate between Clinton and Trump pulled 66 million viewers on commercial networks, down from the first debate. CBS has the biggest audience share with 16.4 million, just ahead of NFL on NBC (15 million) which aired at the same time as the debate. Also, some parts of Florida and South Carolina missed out on the debate telecast after they were hit by hurricane Matthew late last week.

The third and final presidential debate between Clinton and Trump attracted with 71.46 million viewers, up from the second debate’s 66.5 million. NBC had the highest 18-49 demo rating (3.2), while Fox News pulled the biggest audience (11.26 million viewers). The three debates averaged 74 million viewers, the biggest audience ever in an election year where more than one debate took place.

The Walking Dead achieved its second biggest ratings on Sunday with the seventh season premiere. It drew an 8.4 rating among adults 18-49 and 17.03 million viewers. That’s second only to the Season 5 premiere (8.7, 17.29 million) in TWD history.

1 Like

It deserved those figures. They sure delivered on their promise. Not that I didn’t like the ones that died it was good to finally see a main character die again. Sounds sick, I know. But I don’t think we have seen a main character die since season 5.

Chicago Cubs’ historic win over Cleveland Indians in game 7 of the World Series was the most-watched baseball game in 25 years. Fox’s coverage drew an average audience of 40.05 million viewers (plus a 12.6 rating in 18-49 demo), the biggest audience for any baseball game on TV since Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves, which drew 50.3 million people. The Cubs-Indians series averaged 22.85 million viewers overall, the highest since 2004 when the Boston Red Sox broke their 86-year championship drought. That four-game series averaged 25.39 million viewers.

1 Like