Fox Wins Nielsen’s 52-Week Season in Demo Ratings – but CBS Repeats With Total Viewers
It is Fox’s turn to raise the (Lombardi?) trophy, as the youngest-skewing of the so-called “Big 4” broadcast networks has won the 52-week September-to-September season in primetime TV ratings among adults 18-49, which is the most heavily coveted age-range for advertisers. Here’s how the September 13, 2019 through September 22, 2020 “season” panned out in primetime’s key-demo ratings, according to Nielsen. Fox, buoyed by Super Bowl LIV and the success of “The Masked Singer,” claimed the top spot over NBC, CBS and ABC. 1. Fox: 1.3 rating 2. NBC: 1.1 rating 3. CBS and ABC (tied): 0.9 rating(s) Those numbers, as well as the below viewership statistics, come from Nielsen’s “most current” ratings data set, which includes one week of delayed viewing for the vast majority of these 52 weeks. While Nielsen has not yet produced the past few weeks of DVR viewing (and technically we still have like nine days left in the 52-week season), we’ve got more than a large enough sample size to call a winner. Also Read: Ratings: Virtual ACM Awards on CBS Hit All-Time Lows in Key Demo and Viewers While CBS settled for a third-place tie in the key demo for primetime, the appropriately...
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