The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 26 and Sunday March 27, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. NBA n/a College Basketball NCAA […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 3 through Sunday August 9, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

The wheels have pretty much come off the Olympic cart in Russia.  Saturday night was even worse than Friday’s disaster, a preliminary 4.3 adult 18-49 rating from 8:30-11:00 pm Saturday night (assuming the first half hour is excluded from the nightly average as is common on Saturday).  This is two full rating points behind the […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday June 12 through Sunday June 18, 2023. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday September 6 through Sunday September 12, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday December 6 through Sunday December 12, 2021. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday September 26 through Sunday October 2, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

Ratings for Tuesday’s ESPN matches have been added to the table below.  The 3:30 pm telecast of Belgium vs USA averaged 13,440,000 persons 2+, just behind the 13,774,000 for USA vs Portugal on Sunday June 22 at 6 pm, a much better time period.  The streaming viewership had to be around a few million,  so […]