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This is a list of U.S. weekly (or smallest available unit for time period) television ratings archives from 1948 through 1997. (Primarily Nielsen ratings) . National Nielsen ratings for United States television viewing began in March 1950.
Ratings are applied to most original and acquired television series, theatrically released and made-for-cable films, documentaries and specials rated PG/TV-PG and above; until regularly televised sports events on premium cable ended with the December 2023 closure of Showtime's sports division, [note 1] they were also often applied to certain ...
An example of a rating, which is TV-14 with all content descriptors (D, L, S, and V) Some thematic elements, according to the FCC, "may call for parental guidance and/or the program may contain one or more of the following" sub-ratings, designated with an alphabetic letter: [11] [12] D – Sexual or suggestive dialogue (not used with the TV-MA ...
The TV parental guidelines were first proposed on December 19, 1996, as a voluntary-participation system—in which ratings are determined by participating broadcast and cable networks—by the United States Congress, the television industry and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and went into effect by January 1, 1997, on most major ...
In the latest TV show ratings, ABC’s Station 19 and Grey’s Anatomy tied for the nightly demo win, while the former drew Thursday’s largest audience. Station 19 (4.4 million total viewers and ...
[98] [99] Aside from Super Bowls, the most recent broadcast to receive a rating above 40 was the Seinfeld finale in 1998, with a 41.3. [100] [101] Nielsen only began recording a list of ratings for individual broadcasts starting in July 1960, therefore ratings before that time are not included in their official count. [102]
The semifinal matchups were the best cable telecasts and best non-NFL sporting event across any network since the 2020 national title game. ESPN released its TV ratings for the College Football ...
The ratings tumult comes at a time when the cable business is facing an existential crisis, as more consumers are forgoing the pay-TV subscriptions that provide most of its revenue.