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With the first full day of games tucked away, NBCUniversal set some strong streaming numbers for the opening Saturday of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the first Olympic games since the launch of the company’s streamer Peacock. NBC reported today total audience delivery (a metric of total views from linear broadcast, cable…

While England’s rousing victory over Denmark in the UEFA EURO 2020 Soccer Championship semifinal saw massive ratings in the U.K., numbers in the U.S. through the quarterfinals weren’t too shabby, either. Through the quarterfinals (48 matches), UEFA EURO 2020 tournament soccer on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 has delivered an…

Fox News topped the June viewership figures as well as the second quarter ratings, but all of the news networks continued to show steep declines in a post-election, post Donald Trump presidency news environment. In primetime, Fox News topped with an average of 2.13 million viewers, compared to 1.31 million for MSNBC…

Fox News topped the ratings in key categories during the month of May, but cable news overall saw significant declines from the same period a year earlier. The trendline across cable news in recent months has been downward versus 2020, when a presidential election and a worsening Covid-19 pandemic gripped the country…

The three major cable news networks all saw viewership slide in April compared to the same month in 2020. Fox News beat its rivals in primetime and total day viewers, but there were viewership drops across the board, continuing a trend from the first quarter. Fox News averaged 2.24 million viewers in primetime, down…

Nielsen has launched Streaming Video Ratings, extending its effort to capture the most rapidly expanding area of media and entertainment. In its announcement, the measurement firm said the new tool will capture how much streaming activity is happening on TV screens. It will also measure how the various streaming…

The early “fast national” ratings show heavy viewership of the verdict in the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, with more than 18 million viewers across six networks. The figure are a combined number of viewership of CNN, ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS and HLN (formerly CNN Headline News), and covers…

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News networks trumpeted their first-quarter ratings by keying in on their bright spots: CNN got the biggest bounce and topped the 25-54 demo, Fox News led in primetime in total viewers, and MSNBC ranked first in total-day viewers. But drill down to the month of March, and a slower news cycle versus a year earlier…

ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir topped ratings in the first quarter, but the period also showed viewership coming back down to Earth across all of the evening newscasts. World News Tonight averaged 9.6 million total viewers, a drop of 2% from 9.8 million in the first quarter a year earlier, a period…

A year after the start of the Covid-19 shutdowns, network evening news viewership fell to levels resembling pre-pandemic habits. Viewership for World News Tonight with David Muir, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell was down for the week of March 8 compared to the same period a…

MSNBC drew the most total day viewers in February, beating all other cable networks in the ratings yardstick, while The Rachel Maddow Show was the top regularly scheduled show. The other news networks also were touting their numbers: CNN beat other networks in the 25-54 demographic in the total day timeframe as well…