NFL and also college football as well as tough drama franchise business consisting of the “Chicago” shows on NBC as well as the “NCIS” group on CBS were among the week’s rankings champions, according to Nielsen determines Wednesday.
An unprecedented impeachment hearing stopped working to maintain television audiences from kicking back right into familiar, escapist behaviors last week.
The 2nd impeachment of now-former President Donald Trump attracted viewers to news programs, but not in the numbers that tuned in the prior week to demonstrate to rioting inside the U.S. Capitol as well as offered CNN obtain its biggest single-day audience ever before.
CNN had last Wednesday’s most-watched impeachment hearing protection and also again declared the weekly lead amongst cable television information channels.
CBS’ news publication “60 Minutes,” that included reports on the Capitol strike and also safety and security measures for President Joe Biden’s inauguration, was the week’s leading non-sports broadcast despite competitors from a NFL local playoff game.
That competition, in between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New Orleans Saints was the week’s No. 1 program. It aided make Fox the most-watched network with a typical 9.1 million audiences, adhered to by NBC with 6.4 million. CBS had 4.1 million, ABC had 3.5 million, Univision had 1.3 million, Telemundo had 1 million as well as Ion Television had 940,000.
ESPN was the most-watched cable television network in prime-time, balancing 3.2 million for the week. CNN had 3.1 million, MSNBC had 2.7 million and also HGTV had 1.1 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening news scores contest, averaging 10.3 million customers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.5 million and also the “CBS Evening News” had 6.3 million.
For the week of Jan. 11-17, the 20 most-watched programs in prime time, their networks as well as viewership:
1. NFC Playoff: Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Fox, 35.5 million.
2. NFL Playoff: Baltimore at Buffalo, NBC, 26.2 million.
3. University football championship: Ohio State at Alabama, ESPN, 18.5 million.
4. NFL Pregame, NBC, 18.3 million.
5. NFC Postgame, Fox, 18 million.
6. College football pregame, ESPN, 12.8 million.
7. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 10.57 million.
8. “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” ABC. 7.8 million.
9. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.6 million.
10. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.3 million.
11. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 6.6 million.
12. “Great North,” Fox, 6.1 million.
13. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 5.6 million.
14. “Magnum P.I.,” CBS, 5.5 million.
15. “This Is United States,” NBC, 5.46 million.
16. “The Chase,” ABC, 5.45 million.
17. “NCIS,” CBS, 5.2 million.
18. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 5.1 million.
19. “MacGyver,” CBS, 5 million.
20. “The Price is Right,” CBS, 4.9 million.