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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. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] Aside from Super Bowls, the most recent broadcast to receive a rating above 40 was the Seinfeld finale in 1998, with a 41.3.
NBC. CBS. ABC. Fox. The CW. PBS. The five major commercial broadcast television networks, along with PBS. In the United States, for most of the history of broadcasting, there were only three or four major commercial national terrestrial networks. From 1946 to 1956, these were ABC, CBS, NBC and DuMont.
At the dawn of the American television industry, each company was only allowed to own a total of five television stations around the country. As such, when the networks launched their television operations, they found it more advantageous to put their five owned-and-operated stations in large media markets that had more households (and therefore, denser populations) on the belief that it would ...
In the latest TV show ratings, Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen (with 2.6 million viewers and a 0.8 rating) and Last Man Standing (2.3 mil/0.5) ticked up in both measures and each tied their season highs ...
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings, an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding ...
Rank Program Network Rating 1: Sunday Night Football: NBC: 10.9 2: The Big Bang Theory: CBS: 10.6 3: NCIS: 9.6 4: Thursday Night Football: FOX: 8.7 Young Sheldon: CBS 6
Wikipedia:List of U.S. television ratings archives. 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. Although annual data for the Top-rated United States ...