It was the week's top morning show. NBC also won the week in primetime, averaging 9.3 million viewers. CBS had 7.7 million, Fox had 5.4 million, ABC had 4.8 million, the CW had 1.8 million, Univision had 1.6 million, Ion Television had 1.3 million and Telemundo had 1.1 million.
NETWORK RATINGS ROUNDUP, NOV. 27-DEC. 3
‘Today’ Dominates Ratings With Lauer Firing
NEW YORK (AP) — While surely a week NBC wouldn’t want to repeat, Matt Lauer’s firing lured viewers to the “Today” show.
The NBC morning show beat ABC “Good Morning America” last week for the first week in three months, the Nielsen company said. “Today” had more viewers than “GMA” every day last week — the first time that has happened since last December.
NBC fired Lauer following a colleague’s charge of an inappropriate relationship that began in 2014, and since then other women have come forward to charge him with impropriety. Viewers were told of his dismissal at the top of last Wednesday’s show.
“Today” viewership shot up from 4.2 million on Tuesday to 5.7 million on Wednesday, Nielsen said. The show had 5.2 million viewers for Thursday’s show, during which Lauer issued a statement about his behavior.
The Carol Burnett 50th anniversary show was a big winner for CBS on Sunday night, reaching 15.4 million viewers. Only a couple of NFL games exceeded that.
NBC won the week in primetime, averaging 9.3 million viewers. CBS had 7.7 million, Fox had 5.4 million, ABC had 4.8 million, the CW had 1.8 million, Univision had 1.6 million, Ion Television had 1.3 million and Telemundo had 1.1 million.
Fox News Channel was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.41 million viewers. Hallmark continued its holiday surge with 2.29 million, ESPN had 2.15 million, MSNBC had 1.91 million and Freeform had 1.5 million.
BRAND CONNECTIONS
NBC’s “Nightly News” averaged 9.15 million viewers for the week, ABC’s “World News Tonight” was second with 9.11 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.9 million viewers.
The Top 20
Primetime viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Nov. 27-Dec. 3. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership.
1. NFL Football: Philadelphia at Seattle, NBC, 19.69 million.
2. NFL Football: Washington at Dallas, NBC, 15.6 million.
3. “Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special,” CBS, 15.36 million.
4. “The Big Bang Theory,” CBS, 13.84 million.
5. “Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 13.82 million.
6. College Football: Ohio St. vs Wisconsin, Fox, 12.92 million.
7. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 12.11 million.
8. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 11.46 million.
9. “This is Us,” NBC, 10.94 million.
10. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 10.6 million.
11. “The OT,” Fox, 10.19 million.
12. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 9.71 million.
13. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 9.6 million.
14. “Big 10 Championship Pregame,” Fox, 9.254 million.
15. “The Good Doctor,” ABC, 9.25 million.
16. “Christmas in Rockefeller Center,” NBC, 9.03 million.
17. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 8.86 million.
18. “Thursday Night NFL Pre-Kick,” NBC, 8.82 million.
19. “Mom,” CBS, 8.6 million.
20. “Hawaii Five-0,” CBS, 8.58 million.
Comments (1)
Cheryl Thorne says:
December 6, 2017 at 5:33 pm
These people all knew at NBC and in the industry.And they wonder why people are not watching Network /Cable/Local news any longer..They fashion news on the Networks as the news of the day..the facts of the day ..but no one believes them….They have no credibility left and should all be fired at NBC…The board of this company needs to get involved and start with Lack…The Local news/Network news business is in big trouble and it truly used to be a great business . For those of us who have worked in the Tv business…Stations News departments are necessary evils and full of nuts!! News people could not tell the truth if you paid them.Oh that’s right we do… boom!!!!Self important ingrates!!!