TV Program Rankings: Football, NBA Lead for Watch-Time

Welcome to our weekly snapshot of TV by the numbers, highlighting the most-watched shows and networks for November 18-24, with insights from Inscape, the currency-grade smart TV ACR data provider and data technology division of Vizio. Data is linear, live TV only and includes all episode types (new and reruns). Rankings are by percent share duration (i.e., time spent watching).

The NFL and college football maintain their respective first- and second-place positions week-over-week, although the NFL saw its viewership share slip from 7.10% previously to 6.62%, while college football grew watch-time from 5.22% to 5.70%. The NBA snags third place with 1.10% of all minutes watched, up from No. 4 (0.89%) previously.

A few more highlights from the top TV programming: 

• Elsewhere in sports, NFL RedZone jumps up five chart positions to No. 10 with a 0.66% viewership share, while men’s college basketball remains at No. 14, but saw its share increase from 0.53% previously to 0.55%.

• The 58th Annual CMA Awards land at No. 17 with 0.51% of watch-time — a decrease from last year’s show which had a 0.54% share and ranked No. 10 for the week in which it aired. 

• Two Fox News programs rise up the chart week-over-week, Fox & Friends (from No. 8 to No. 7) and America’s Newsroom (from No. 11 to No. 9). 

• Aside from the CMA Awards, Gutfeld! was the only week-over-week ranking newcomer, up from No. 27 to No. 25. 

Thanks largely to football and the CMA Awards, ABC takes first place on the TV network ranking — read more on The Measure.