Friday, December 30, 2022

Evening News Ratings: 2011

The charts below include the weekly average total viewership & 25-54 viewership for the evening news programs that aired on ABC, CBS, and NBC in 2011. Note that both total viewership and 25-54 data are provided in millions.

Nielsen Pocketpiece: February 1978 - 2nd Report

Below is a full Nielsen pocketpiece covering the 2nd half of February 1978. It features the complete Nielsen ratings for all television programs airing in the weeks ending February 12, 1978 and February 19, 1978. The first half of the report includes a full alphabetical list of all programs that aired and their two-week average HH rating/impression. The second half of the report provides HH ratings information for individual telecasts each day.

Top Chef (Bravo): Ratings Recap

Bravo's 'Top Chef' premiered March 8, 2006 to a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating and 1.3 million viewers, fell hard in its second week, but ended up growing its audience up to 1.5 million by its first season finale. the show grew its ratings in each of the next 4 seasons, reaching its peak in its fifth season (2008-09) where it averaged over 3 million viewers per episode. It steadily declined over the next several seasons before finally falling below 1 million viewers on-average for the first time in season 12 (2014-15). Over the next 6 seasons, its ratings remained incredibly steady at between 800K-1M viewers, but it dipped to its lowest numbers yet in 2022's season 19 where it pulled 725,000. It has been renewed for a 20th season which is expected to air in 2023.

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Trust Me (TNT): Ratings Recap

TNT's 'Trust Me' premiered January 26, 2009 to a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating and 3.4 million viewers; OK numbers for scripted cable at the time but definitely not anything spectacular. It fell to a 0.6 & 1.9 million viewers in its second week and tumbled to only 876,000 by its 7th week. Clearly on the chopping block, TNT opted to burn off the remaining 6 episodes over 3 days and the program concluded to just a 0.2 rating & 426,000 viewers.

Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending June 15, 2003

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 38th week of the 2002-03 television broadcast season; most reruns are excluded from the list. Final household (HH) ratings, 18-49 ratings, and viewership (in millions) are provided in the first chartThe bottom charts include data for cable programs that aired this week.

Nielsen Pocketpiece: February 1978 - 1st Report

Below is a full Nielsen pocketpiece covering the 1st half of February 1978. It features the complete Nielsen ratings for all television programs airing in the weeks ending January 29, 1978 and February 5, 1978. The first half of the report includes a full alphabetical list of all programs that aired and their two-week average HH rating/impression. The second half of the report provides HH ratings information for individual telecasts each day.

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Top Streaming (SVOD) Ratings: Week Ending November 27, 2022

Below are the weekly streaming/video-on-demand (SVOD) ratings for the week ending November 27, 2022. The chart below includes the top 10 original programs, top 10 movies, and top 10 acquired programs from Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and Apple TV+ measured on total minutes of watch-time. The data represents only viewing within the U.S. and comes from Nielsen Media Research.

Top Streaming (SVOD) Ratings: Week Ending November 20, 2022

Below are the weekly streaming/video-on-demand (SVOD) ratings for the week ending November 20, 2022. The chart below includes the top 10 original programs, top 10 movies, and top 10 acquired programs from Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and Apple TV+ measured on total minutes of watch-time. The data represents only viewing within the U.S. and comes from Nielsen Media Research.

Top Streaming (SVOD) Ratings: Week Ending November 13, 2022

Below are the weekly streaming/video-on-demand (SVOD) ratings for the week ending November 13, 2022. The chart below includes the top 10 original programs, top 10 movies, and top 10 acquired programs from Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and Apple TV+ measured on total minutes of watch-time. The data represents only viewing within the U.S. and comes from Nielsen Media Research.

Pocketpiece Project

Over the last several months I've been doing a lot of research about Nielsen Pocketpieces with the goal of tracking down as many as I can, digitizing them, and ultimately hosting them on the blog. For those unfamiliar with Pocketpieces, they are booklets that Nielsen sent out to TV networks and advertisers biweekly (and later weekly) from the 1950s through 2007 which included a comprehensive accounting of TV ratings. Although they were released through 2007, I'm particularly interested in the ones through 1981 as there is very little publicly released ratings data prior to that point.

Recently & with some help, I've managed to find a nearly complete collection of them across multiple sources and have begun the process of digitizing them. Unfortunately, I am based in New York City and the Pocketpieces in question are located in Washington, DC and Los Angeles so there will be a lot of travel involved over the next year or several years in order to get them all, but that is the next major project on this site. I'm not sure how Nielsen is going to feel about this, so it remains to be seen if this is something that will ever see completion, but I can't imagine that they'll care all that much about 40-50+ year old data.

I'm also not sure how I'm going to organize this within the current layout of the blog, but as I get more of them posted then I'll make some changes to better accommodate. I'm also quite aware that I have not yet finished posting the 2002-03 season, let alone the more recent 2010-2013 seasons, so that is also on the radar, but life has gotten very busy this fall and I can only focus my attentions on so many things. Hopefully 2002-03 will be finished soon.

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Nielsen Pocketpiece: January 1978 - 2nd Report

Below is a full Nielsen pocketpiece covering the 2nd half of January 1978. It features the complete Nielsen ratings for all television programs airing in the weeks ending January 15, 1978 and January 22, 1978. The first half of the report includes a full alphabetical list of all programs that aired and their two-week average HH rating/impression. The second half of the report provides HH ratings information for individual telecasts each day. 

Nielsen Pocketpiece: January 1978 - 1st Report

Below is a full Nielsen pocketpiece covering the 1st half of January 1978. It features the complete Nielsen ratings for all television programs airing in the weeks ending January 1, 1978 and January 8, 1978. The first half of the report includes a full alphabetical list of all programs that aired and their two-week average HH rating/impression. The second half of the report provides HH ratings information for individual telecasts each day. 

Monday, December 5, 2022

Scans for the 1988-89 Season Added

A kind person has shared with me scans of the USA Today Nielsen charts for the entire 1988-89 TV season, and they've been linked at the bottom of all 52 weekly posts for that season. Previously I only had the raw data but not the actual scans, so now both are available.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending June 8, 2003

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 37th week of the 2002-03 television broadcast season; most reruns are excluded from the list. Final household (HH) ratings, 18-49 ratings, and viewership (in millions) are provided in the first chartThe bottom charts include data for cable programs that aired this week.

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending June 1, 2003

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 36th week of the 2002-03 television broadcast season; most reruns are excluded from the list. Final household (HH) ratings, 18-49 ratings, and viewership (in millions) are provided in the first chartThe bottom charts include data for cable programs that aired this week.

Friday, December 2, 2022

Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending May 25, 2003

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 35th week of the 2002-03 television broadcast season; most reruns are excluded from the list. Final household (HH) ratings, 18-49 ratings, and viewership (in millions) are provided in the first chartThe bottom charts include data for cable programs that aired this week.

Top Streaming (SVOD) Ratings: Week Ending November 6, 2022

Below are the weekly streaming/video-on-demand (SVOD) ratings for the week ending November 6, 2022. The chart below includes the top 10 original programs, top 10 movies, and top 10 acquired programs from Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and Apple TV+ measured on total minutes of watch-time. The data represents only viewing within the U.S. and comes from Nielsen Media Research.

Top Streaming (SVOD) Ratings: Week Ending October 30, 2022

Below are the weekly streaming/video-on-demand (SVOD) ratings for the week ending October 30, 2022. The chart below includes the top 10 original programs, top 10 movies, and top 10 acquired programs from Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and Apple TV+ measured on total minutes of watch-time. The data represents only viewing within the U.S. and comes from Nielsen Media Research.