Meanwhile, NBC is also running Olympics action in prime time on NBCSN and Bravo, so the audience is far more spread out than it would have been in the past. It was followed by an original episode of “Mistresses” which scored a 0.5 rating and 2.2 million viewers, which was up from last week’s total.
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“We take great pride in knowing that no one devotes more broadcast network prime-time coverage to women’s sports than NBC”, said Jim Bell, executive producer of the Olympics.
NBC was crowing Tuesday that this, its seventh straight week at No. 1 in viewership, equals the network’s longest winning streak in 19 years.
Six days remain for the Rio Olympics, and the games now boast an average 27.8 million viewers and 15.4 rating among households. Men had 32 medals, nine of them gold. The U.S. women’s team and Simone Biles have dominated gymnastics in Rio, while American men have been less competitive. Those stats remain off from the London Olympics by more than 5 million.
NBC is delivering its second-most-watched season in eight years, with its average of 8.237 million viewers overall for the 2015-16 season the network’s second-best at this point since NBC was averaging 8.246 million through 47 weeks in 2007-08, trailing only the 8.314 million of 2013-14. Telemundo was second, averaging 1.35 million, followed by UniMas, which averaged 500,000, Estrella TV, which averaged 180,000, Azteca America, which averaged 100,000, and MundoMax, which averaged 60,000.
With the seven nights of primetime Rio Olympic coverage ranking as the week’s top seven telecasts in every key ratings measure, NBC has delivered the most dominant win in people meter history versus the Big 4 competition and vaulted into a decisive lead for the 2015-16 TV season to date, according to “live plus same day” figures from Nielsen Media Research through the week of August 8-14.
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The “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” had its most-watched week since the week of January 5-9, 2015 averaging 10.43 million viewers to be the most- watched network nightly newscast for the fifth consecutive week. The London games earned an average of 33 million viewers nightly.
