Patriots Atop NFL and TV Ratings
The Patriots / Colts game, billed as Super Bowl 41.5, delivered an average viewership of 33.8 million, overwhelming the rest of not only sports shows, but all shows for the week of October 29 - November 4.
| RANK | PROGRAMS | Network | Persons Live+SD (million) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CBS NFL NATL (PATS/COLTS) | CBS | 33.819 |
| 2 | CBS NFL NATL POST GUN | CBS | 29.267 |
| 3 | NBC Sunday Night Football | NBC | 16.454 |
| 4 | FOX NFL SUNDAY-SINGLE | FOX | 15.356 |
| 5 | NFL REGULAR SEASON (PACKERS/BRONCOS) | ESPN | 14.019 |
| 6 | SUNDAY NIGHT NFL PRE-KICK | NBC | 12.314 |
| 7 | CBS NFL REGIONAL | CBS | 12.128 |
| 8 | FOOTBALL NT AMERICA PT 3 | NBC | 9.671 |
| 9 | NBC NFL SUNDAY POST | NBC | 8.225 |
| 10 | CBS NFL REG POST GUN 11/04 | CBS | 7.711 |
| 11 | FOOTBALL NT AMERICA PT 2 | NBC | 6.736 |
| 12 | SAT NIGHT FOOTBALL | ABC | 6.457 |
| 13 | HOME DEPOT CLLG FOOTBALL2 | CBS | 6.281 |
| 14 | NASCAR NEXTEL CUP-SUN | ABC | 6.011 |
| 15 | ABC COLLEGE FTBL GM-LATE | ABC | 5.456 |
| 16 | FOX NFL SUNDAY-POST | FOX | 5.147 |
| 17 | WWE Entertainment (WWE Raw) | USA | 4.998 |
| 18 | WWE Entertainment (WWE Raw) | USA | 4.746 |
| 19 | Friday Night Smackdown | CW | 4.725 |
| 20 | NOTRE DAME POST | NBC | 4.181 |
Our Sports Ratings combine both Broadcast and Cable sports.
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what has been the delay to getting ratings data after Nov. 4th?
TV-aholic,
We have no idea. Nielsen hasn't posted any sports results since that week. Sports results were always a bit unreliable in their release date, but the current situation is mystifying.
what has been the delay to getting ratings data after Nov. 4th?
TV-aholic,
We have no idea. Nielsen hasn’t posted any sports results since that week. Sports results were always a bit unreliable in their release date, but the current situation is mystifying.
Would you happen to have the numbers for the Thanksgiving day games on FOX and CBS?
Would you happen to have the numbers for the Thanksgiving day games on FOX and CBS?
TV-aholic,
Sadly, we don't. That's exactly what we lose (non-primetime broadcast sports) when Nielsen doesn't post sports specific results.
We still get broadcast primetime results, like NBC Sunday Night Football and ABC Saturday Night Football, and any cable results, like ESPN Monday Night Football, but we lack the daytime broadcast results.
There still is some hope they will appear eventually. Sometimes in the past, several weeks have appeared at once for us.
TV-aholic,
Sadly, we don’t. That’s exactly what we lose (non-primetime broadcast sports) when Nielsen doesn’t post sports specific results.
We still get broadcast primetime results, like NBC Sunday Night Football and ABC Saturday Night Football, and any cable results, like ESPN Monday Night Football, but we lack the daytime broadcast results.
There still is some hope they will appear eventually. Sometimes in the past, several weeks have appeared at once for us.
How regular doe the NFL Network release ratings? The Packers v Cowboys was the first time I remember seeing actuall data from that net.
How regular doe the NFL Network release ratings? The Packers v Cowboys was the first time I remember seeing actuall data from that net.
We'd see them if they were in the Cable Top 40. UPDATE: Oops, Robert is correct on the numbers of times.
NFL Network could make a press release at any time touting their ratings. My guess is that except for the Packers/Cowboys their ratings have been so low as to be better left unmentioned by them.
We’d see them if they were in the Cable Top 40. UPDATE: Oops, Robert is correct on the numbers of times.
NFL Network could make a press release at any time touting their ratings. My guess is that except for the Packers/Cowboys their ratings have been so low as to be better left unmentioned by them.
There have only been 3 games so far, and although NFL Net's debut on Thanksgiving night didn't make the top 40, that's because Nielsen sorts the top 40 data by HH Rating — we then resort it by viewers and report the top 20.
So while the Colts vs. Falcons on 11/22 didn't make our list (because it didn't make Nielsen's), it did have 4.2 million viewers and would have made our “top 20″ on a viewers basis if Nielsen produced that list sorted by viewers. Shows with more viewers due to higher viewers per screen can fall out of the “Top 40″ because they didn't have a top 40 HH Rating.
Bears/Redskins may meet with a similar fate, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it had less than 4 million viewers.
There have only been 3 games so far, and although NFL Net’s debut on Thanksgiving night didn’t make the top 40, that’s because Nielsen sorts the top 40 data by HH Rating — we then resort it by viewers and report the top 20.
So while the Colts vs. Falcons on 11/22 didn’t make our list (because it didn’t make Nielsen’s), it did have 4.2 million viewers and would have made our “top 20″ on a viewers basis if Nielsen produced that list sorted by viewers. Shows with more viewers due to higher viewers per screen can fall out of the “Top 40″ because they didn’t have a top 40 HH Rating.
Bears/Redskins may meet with a similar fate, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it had less than 4 million viewers.
Thanks for the insite guys. It really helps!
Keep up the great work!
TV-aholic,
We have asked our friends at Nielsen about the situation with the sports ratings and hope to have an answer soon.
Thanks for the insite guys. It really helps!
Keep up the great work!
TV-aholic,
We have asked our friends at Nielsen about the situation with the sports ratings and hope to have an answer soon.