Disney Back at No. 1 Among TV Distributors in September 2024

The beginning of soccer season was a boon to a number of media firms in September — together with Disney, which as soon as once more claimed the No. 1 spot in Nielsen‘s rankings of TV distributors.

Disney shops accounted for 11.3 % of all TV use in the US for Nielsen’s September measurement interval (which ran from Aug. 26-Sept. 29). That’s up from 9.5 % in August and marks the corporate’s ninth time within the high spot within the 11 months Nielsen has shared distributor information.

Big good points for ESPN and ESPN2 — each of which greater than doubled their share of TV viewing from August, because of the beginning of the school soccer and NFL seasons — and a 25 % bump from ABC drove Disney’s good points. Different NFL and school soccer media companions additionally grew month to month: Paramount (8.2 % of TV use) and Fox (7.3 %) every including greater than some extent to their August totals and Amazon (3.7 %) rising by half some extent.

NBCUniversal, which led August’s rankings because of the Summer season Olympics, dropped again to 3rd place with 9.3 % of TV use, in keeping with its non-Olympic month common. YouTube held regular in second place with 10.6 % of TV use. The 14 firms listed within the distributor rankings collectively had about 73 % of all TV use within the U.S. for September, just like earlier months.

Nielsen’s TV distributor rankings for September are beneath.