NBC: FIRST WITH FOOTBALL, LAST WITH EVERYTHING ELSE
November 23, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Once again NBC’s Sunday Night Football ranked No. 1 for the week with 20.3 million viewers tuning in — but football was all she wrote for the struggling network, whose second-highest-rated show, Law and Order: SVU, came in at No. 40. CBS’s NCIS captured nearly as many viewers as the NFL — 20 million, at […]
NBC: LEAST-SEEN TV?
July 29, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
NBC, which once attracted 25-30 million viewers or more on Thursday nights with its Must-See TV comedy lineup and E.R., barely drew a tenth of that audience this week. Reruns of its comedies between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. averaged just 2.16 million viewers, while a repeat of Law and Order: SVU at 10:00 p.m. […]
IDOL FLIES; NBC SINKS
March 17, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Wednesday’s edition of American Idol averaged 22.18 million viewers, peaking in the 9:30 p.m. half-hour with 24.11 million and once again attracting more viewers than all of the competition combined, according to Nielsen Research. Meanwhile, struggling NBC continued to wage a losing battle. Its Minute to Win It had a minute audience of just 3.25 […]
MNF MOVES THE GOAL POST
October 27, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
For the first time ever, a weekly sports telecast appears to have a lock on first place in the weekly Nielsen ratings. Indeed, the audience for NBC’s Sunday Night Football appears to be growing each week — with Sunday night’s Week 7 contest between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers averaging 25.7 million […]
