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There were 119.6 million TV homes in the United States for the 2017–18 TV season (Nielsen's National Television Household Universe, or Households Using Television, HUT). [21] Nielsen re-estimates the number of television-equipped households each August for the upcoming television season. [22] The rating of a program is a fraction of the HUT.
This article presents the top-rated American primetime broadcast network television series by season from 1950 to the present according to Nielsen Media Research. 1950s [ edit ]
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.
TV networks have long based their advertising rates on Nielsen’s measure of linear TV audiences, which have slipped as consumers embraced Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and other streaming and on ...
Nielsen, best known for delivering TV ratings, is getting ready for a future when it gauges a lot more than what people are watching on TV. The media-measurement giant plans to launch a new system ...
Nielsen is taking a big step in measuring streaming TV today with the addition of Hulu and YouTube TV to its ratings. Nielsen's President of Product Leadership Megan Clarken said that the company ...
This is a list of U.S. weekly (or smallest available unit for time period) television ratings archives from 1948 through 1997. (Primarily Nielsen ratings) . National Nielsen ratings for United States television viewing began in March 1950.
Nielsen, the king of media measurement, intends to extend its yardstick a little further. The data company, whose tabulation of TV audiences forms the bedrock of negotiations for billons of ...