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The following is the list of most watched television broadcasts in the United States by average viewership, according to Nielsen. Of the 30 most-watched telecasts, 27 are Super Bowls. The Apollo 11 moon landing is generally considered to have been the most watched event in American television history with an estimated viewership of between 125 ...
Though the Apollo 11 Moon landing is the most watched television event in American history, it is considered a news event, meaning that CBS and Nickelodeon's live telecast of Super Bowl LVIII in 2024 holds the record for the largest average viewership of any live network U.S. television broadcast, with 123.7 million viewers.
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 (though the Paramount Television Network had some ...
Until September 2009 and again since March 2010, the "Big Three television networks" (NBC, ABC and CBS) have all begun their late night programming at 11:35 p.m. Eastern Time each night; since June 1994, Fox, the fourth major U.S. network, airs only one day of late night programming—Saturday—starting at 11:00 p.m., a half-hour to one hour after the end of prime time to allow most of its ...
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. In 2011, 96.7% of households owned television sets; [ 1] about 114,200,000 American households owned at least one television set each in August 2013. [ 2] Most households have more than one set. The percentage of households owning at least one television set peaked at 98.4% ...
For most of the history of television in the United States, the Big Three dominated, controlling the vast majority of television broadcasting. [5] DuMont ceased regular programming in 1955; the NTA Film Network, unusual in that its programming, all pre-recorded, was distributed by mail instead of through communications wires, signed on in 1956 and lasted until 1961.
June 16. Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland, with ABC and NBC broadcasting his arrival live ( CBS, hampered by budget reductions of its news division, broadcasts The Price is Right instead). June 20. KLDH (now KTKA-TV) in Topeka, Kansas signs on, giving the Topeka market its first full-time ABC affiliate.
CBS News Bay Area - Pairs with KPIX (CBS) & KPYX (KPIX+) Comcast Hometown Network - Cable TV in SF. CreaTV San Jose - Public access channel. NBC Sports Bay Area - Broadcasts some games on KNTV/San Jose & KSTS/San Jose. NBC Sports California - Broadcasts some games on KNTV/San Jose & KSTS/San Jose.