Peacock delivering record EPL streaming audiences

Peacock drew 1 million viewers for Arsenal-Manchester City on Sunday, which is tied for the third-best streaming audience on record in the U.S. for a Premier League match. That ties a Manchester United-Liverpool match from early September this season. Over the last eight days, Peacock has drawn two ...

NFL games help Netflix to best monthly TV share

The NFL’s Christmas Day debut on Netflix helped the streaming platform to 8.5% of total TV viewing in December, tying Netflix’s best share set in July 2023, according to new Nielsen Gauge data. Netflix was up 14% from the November period (other titles like “Carry-On” and Season 2 of “Squid Game” als...

CFP semifinal viewership lowest since 2021

This season’s CFP semifinals, the first semis with individual primetime windows scheduled far away from the New Year’s Eve/Day holiday, averaged 19.2 million viewers, the lowest for the semis since the 2021 season, when the doubleheader aired on New Year’s Eve (16.9 million). This year’s semis late ...

Olympics make mark among top 200 telecasts

Sports programming again dominated the most-viewed telecasts of the year, accounting for 182 of the top 200 shows in 2024, or a whopping 91% of the total. Sports had 87 in the top 100, and 95 from Nos. 101-200. The number for sports was affected by a presidential election season, when debates and co...

Sports rules top 100 broadcasts, but lower than '23

Sports programming again dominated the most-viewed telecasts of the year, but 2024 was well below previous highs, as 87 of the top 100 programs of the year were sports. That is down from 2023, when 96 of the top 100 were sports. If you broaden the list even further, sports accounted for 182 of the t...

Early data shows over 200 countries tuned in for Netflix NFL games

While Nielsen measurement of the NFL Christmas Day games is not expected until later today, internal data from Netflix shows:

Early data shows over 200 countries tuned in for Netflix NFL games

While Nielsen measurement of the NFL Christmas Day games is not expected until later today, internal data from Netflix shows:

Audience Analysis: Women’s college hoops, volleyball see solid numbers

Fox drew 2.2 million viewers on Saturday night for USC’s win over UConn, marking Fox’s second-best women’s college hoops game ever, and the best audience for any women’s hoops game this season. USC-UConn also is the second-best college hoops audience (men or women) this season to date, behind only t...

New first round of CFP averaged 10.6M viewers

The four games of the first round of the College Football Playoff averaged 10.6 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS and truTV (plus streaming) on Friday and Saturday.

Year-End Awards: Best in Local Media — MSG Networks

MSG Network launched in 1969 as the industry’s original RSN. But what has pushed its expanded offerings to more than a half-century of success and a reported value of $6.15 billion is its willingness to innovate.