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The highest-rated broadcast of all time is the final episode of M*A*S*H in 1983, with 60.2% of all households with television sets in the United States at that time watching the episode. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] Aside from Super Bowls, the most recent broadcast to receive a rating above 40 was the Seinfeld finale in 1998, with a 41.3.
The TV parental guidelines were first proposed on December 19, 1996, as a voluntary-participation system—in which ratings are determined by participating broadcast and cable networks—by the United States Congress, the television industry and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and went into effect by January 1, 1997, on most major ...
Rank Program Network Rating 1: Texaco Star Theater: NBC: 61.6 2: Fireside Theatre: 52.6 3: Philco TV Playhouse: 45.3 4: Your Show of Shows: 42.6 5: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Per updated ratings data (through Nov. 18), the Justin Hartley-led drama still stands as the most-watched entertainment program of the 2024-25 TV season — and with a slightly larger audience ...
The television industry agreed to insert a ratings icon on-screen at the beginning of all rated programs, and to encode the guidelines for use with the V-chip. [3] The industry also created a Monitoring Board, composed of TV industry experts, to ensure accuracy, uniformity and consistency of the guidelines and to consider any public questions ...
In the latest TV ratings, ABC’s American Idol dominated Sunday in the demo, while CBS’ 60 Minutes easily clocked in with the night’s biggest audience. ABC | The Time 100 special (with 2.5 ...
ESPN released its TV ratings for the College Football Playoff this Tuesday afternoon. The Rose Bowl featuring Alabama and Notre Dame averaged 18.9 million viewers, whereas the Sugar Bowl with ...
National Nielsen ratings for United States television viewing began in March 1950. Although annual data for the Top-rated United States television programs by season is readily available online, the weekly (or bi-weekly in early years) reports are scattered in various archives and newspapers, and are generally not organized.