‘The Voice,’ NFL Help NBC Win Premiere Week Ratings

A powerful Sunday Evening Soccer sport and good showings from a number of of its long-running sequence helped NBC declare the largest viewers for week one of many 2024-25 season.

The community averaged 6.2 million viewers in primetime for the week of Sept. 23-29, in response to same-day Nielsen figures (which don’t embrace streaming or different delayed viewing). NBC has topped the opening week of the season in complete viewers for six straight years and for 13 in a row amongst adults 18-49.

ABC completed second for the week with 5.4 million viewers, aided by two huge sports activities telecasts (Monday Evening Soccer and its Saturday primetime faculty soccer sport) adopted by CBS (3.3 million) and Fox (1.8 million).

There’s a little bit of a caveat right here, nevertheless, in that CBS is ready till mid-October to roll out a lot of its lineup. Sunday Evening Soccer would seemingly hold NBC on high anyway — see the six-year premiere week profitable streak, above — however the margins would seemingly be smaller. CBS has received 16 straight September-to-Might seasons in complete viewers.

Even with out the NFL, NBC nonetheless ended up on high of premiere week: Measuring simply leisure programming, it averaged 4.2 million viewers, once more main CBS (2.9 million), ABC (2.8 million) and Fox (1.8 million). NBC had six of the ten most-watched non-sports exhibits of the week, led by season premieres of The Voice (5.96 million viewers) and Chicago Hearth (5.6 million) and the season finale of America’s Obtained Expertise (5.46 million), which ranked second, third and fourth for the week. CBS’ 60 Minutes was first with 9.57 million viewers.