Grammy audience falls 29% from record 2012, but CBS easily wins Sunday night
CBS’ Sunday-night telecast of the 55th Annual Grammy Awards drew 28.4 million viewers, according to updated preliminary Nielsen data — down 29% from last year’s mammoth audience, but still a very big number by modern television standards. Following “60 Minutes,”…
Update: Super Bowl XLVII was 3rd most-watched program in TV history
Now that the final Fast National numbers are in, CBS’ telecast of Super Bowl XLVII was seen by an average of 108.4 million viewers, making it the third-most-watched program in television history, after last year’s Super Bowl XLVI and Super…
Super Bowl XLVII gets highest overnight rating in Super Bowl history
CBS’ Sunday night telecast of Super Bowl XLVII scored the highest-ever overnight rating in the game’s long history with an average of 48.1, according to preliminary Nielsen data, despite a blackout at the New Orleans Superdome that delayed the action…
NFL conference title game viewership falls 16% from last year
Sunday’s NFL conference title games were seen by an average of 44.9 million viewers according to preliminary data, certainly a formidable number but representing a 16% drop from 2012. CBS’s telecast of the AFC game, a 28-13 win for the…