Weekly Broadcast Finals: NFL Primetime Football Up Huge Year-to-Year (Week 9)

NBC's 'Sunday Night Football' dominated a slow Thanksgiving week in the Nielsen ratings. The game averaged a massive 6.59 A18-49 rating with 21.73 million total viewers, up 11% in the demo from last year's comparable game (5.95 rating), and up 15% among total viewers (18.95 million). FOX's coverage of Thanksgiving 'Thursday Night Football' (6.11, 20.5 million) saw even better gains, up 21% in both the demo (5.07 rating), and viewership (16.91 million) from last year.

Weekly Broadcast Ratings Recap: 'The Simpsons' Has Best Week-to-Week Growth (Week 8)

All four shows in FOX's Sunday comedy line-up saw week-to-week gains in the demo. At the top of the night was 'The Simpsons' (1.63, 4.35 million) which rose 0.68 from last week, the best gain among all broadcast programs. Lead-out 'Bob's Burgers' (1.19, 2.91 million) was up 0.18, 'Rel' (0.62, 1.62 million), and 'Family Guy' (1.13, 2.66 million) ticked up 0.07.

Weekly Broadcast Ratings Recap: 'The Goldbergs' Has Best Scripted Week-to-Week Growth (Week 7)

ABC's 'The Goldbergs' (1.29, 5.12 million) led all scripted entries in the week ending November 11, 2018 among week-to-week demo growth. The show rose 0.3 from last week's series-low.

Weekly Broadcast Ratings: ABC Wednesday Falls, but Tuesday Rises in Week 6

ABC's Wednesday comedy line-up saw concerning week-to-week-declines for the week ending November 4, 2018. 'Modern Family' and 'The Goldbergs' each lost three tenths in unrounded ratings  from last week's finals, 'American Housewife' lost two tenths, and 'Single Parents' lost a tenth (0.14 unrounded).

Weekly Broadcast Finals Recap: World Series Game 5 Tops Week 5

Sunday's game 5 of the 2018 World Series (4.66, 17.7 million) took victory on the week, leading everything on broadcast, including both 'Thursday Night Football' and 'Sunday Night Football.' The series as a whole averaged a 3.69 A18-49 rating and 14.39 million viewers, the lowest demo since 2012 and the lowest viewership since 2014. An in-depth look at the World Series ratings can be found here.