Broadcast Network Prime-time Averages By Season









Note that 2006-7 viewership is Live+SD, 2005-6 is a mix of Live & Live+SD, previous years are Live viewing only. Data shown is the only data available to us.
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2008 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved.






18-54 data wasn’t collected before 2005-06?
collected, yes. Available to us, no.
wow… looks like the last two seasons have seen sharper declines than usual in combined 18-49 viewers among the big 4 nets.
*the last two seasons being the two not shown here: 2007-2008, 2008-2009