The 2024 World Series goes into the books as the most-watched fall classic since 2017. The Los Angeles Dodgers completed their five-game winning streak over the New York Yankees with a 7-6 win on Wednesday. Fox Sports outlets (the broadcast network, Fox Deportes and streaming services) averaged 18.6 million viewers for the game, also the … Read more
Japan has been obsessed with baseball for generations, but Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani's first World Series is taking the game to unprecedented levels of popularity in the country. The second game of the World Series between the Dodgers and New York Yankees attracted an average of 15.9 million viewers in Japan, about 12% … Read more
A World Series involving the major teams from the country's two largest markets will likely mean a sizable boost in television ratings for the fall classic. If that were to happen, the World Series would follow a pattern established by the early rounds of Major League Baseball's postseason. According to Nielsen, all three rounds of … Read more
A strong one Sunday evening football The play and strong showings of many of its long-running series helped NBC claim its biggest audience for the first week of the 2024-25 season. The network averaged 6.2 million primetime viewers for the week of Sept. 23-29, according to same-day Nielsen data (which doesn't include streaming or other … Read more
It seems like spectators are flocking to it The Penguin. The HBO series starring Colin Farrell as the infamous DC Comics villain racked up 10.4 million multiplatform viewers for its premiere, which debuted on September 19. That 11-day figure, according to HBO, is surpassing every other current HBO series over the years. a similar time … Read more
The last season of Power Book II: Ghost will go down in history as the most-watched show ever on Starz. The drama, which heads to its series finale on Oct. 4, is averaging 10.5 million viewers across all platforms, measured for 90 days after its premiere. (Several years ago, Starz noted that the fifth season … Read more
Ryan Seacrest's first week as host of Wheel of Fortune It attracted many curious viewers, who then stayed even after its debut episode. Seacrest took over as host of the syndicated game show following Pat Sajak's retirement at the end of the 2023-24 season, after four decades at the helm. (Sajak will continue to host … Read more
The return to its usual September schedule helped give the Emmy Awards a significant boost in television ratings. Sunday’s show, hosted by Eugene and Dan Levy on ABC, averaged a 6.87 in Nielsen’s national quick ratings, including out-of-home viewing. That’s a 54 percent jump from the postponed 2023 awards, which drew 4.46 million viewers, an … Read more
That the NFL has drawn a large audience in its first week of the 2024 season is no surprise: It is, after all, the biggest show on TV. But the league's opening week series (and Week 2 prime time) are pulling in even bigger numbers than usual. The first week series of […]
Amazon has released some ratings numbers for the second season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The company says 40 million viewers worldwide have watched at least some of the first three new episodes Rings of Power episodes in the first 11 days of the second season. The company did not … Read more