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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.
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. [ 99 ] [ 100 ] Aside from Super Bowls, the most recent broadcast to receive a rating above 40 was the Seinfeld finale in 1998, with a 41.3.
College football's television ratings slumped due to market saturation, and the price of a 30-second advertisement plunged from $57,000 in 1983 to $15,000 in 1984, while the combined take from network television fell more than 60 percent. [13]
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 ...
The two most-watched television broadcasts in Canadian history occurred during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. For the gold medal game of the men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics , played between the United States and Canada, confirmed 16.6 million Canadians watched the whole game, roughly one-half of the country's entire ...
ESPN delivered a high quality slate of college football games for Week 1 of the 2021 season. Four of the top five teams in the preseason rankings took center stage in the ABC tripleheader on ...
The highest-rated individual game in World Series history was Game 6 in 1980, when the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Kansas City Royals; the game had a 40.0 rating. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The only other games with a rating of 39 or higher were Game 7 in 1975 , when the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Red Sox , with a 39.6 rating, [ 5 ] and Game 4 ...
The first two weeks of the Big Ten season have drawn massive TV ratings, mostly thanks to one team in particular– the Ohio State Buckeyes. Last Saturday’s Ohio State-Penn State Big Ten ...