CBS is claiming an early victory on the 2024-25 tv season because it races towards the end line because the most-watched broadcast community for the seventeenth consecutive season.
Per Nielsen “Most Present” information, CBS has been averaging 4.99M viewers in primetime this season after seven days of viewing, excluding sports activities, which places it at a 14% enhance year-over-year. Season-to-date, CBS boasts the highest seven reveals on broadcast, together with Tracker at No. 1, averaging 10.84M viewers per episode.
The community’s new choices are additionally performing fairly effectively. Matlock is poised to develop into the second most-watched broadcast collection of the TV season with 9.53M viewers per episode. Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage can be on the rankings at No. 5, averaging 7.98M viewers per episode.
Talking of recent reveals, Watson and NCIS: Origins are additionally off to sturdy begins. They’re among the many Prime 5 most-watched new reveals of the 2024-25 broadcast season. Solely ABC’s Excessive Potential may maintain a flame to CBS’ newest additions to its schedule.
Maybe unsurprisingly, just a few of the broadcaster’s long-running, vastly fashionable collection — FBI, 60 Minutes, NCIS and Blue Bloods — are additionally within the Prime 7.
Once you add in Elsbeth, which is No. 9 among the many Prime 10 broadcast collection of the season, CBS claims eight of these spots. NBC eked out the opposite two with Chicago Hearth (No. 8) and Chicago Med (No. 10).
It looks as if Ghosts has misplaced a little bit of its recognition this season, averaging about 7.29M viewers per episode, however that also places it because the eleventh most-watched present of the published season. In truth, CBS lays declare to 13 of the Prime 20 reveals of the season.
This formally breaks broadcast’s longest profitable streak on document, besting a milestone beforehand reached by CBS from 1955-1970. In all, that is CBS’ twenty second profitable season by way of common whole primetime viewership within the final 23 years.
Nielsen makes use of a mix of 7-day, 3-day and same-day viewership information to formulate its “Most Present” numbers, based mostly on the longest time frame obtainable for every episode. On this case, 7-day information is accessible for all episodes aired on or earlier than April 14. Nielsen is utilizing 3-day information for episodes that aired between April 15 to 17 and stay + same-day numbers from episodes from April 19 and 20.
