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[05/21/16 - 08:38 AM] ABC Wins Season's Final Friday with the Top 2 Shows ABC spins the numbers for Friday, May 20. |
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ABC Wins Season's Final Friday with the Top 2 Shows; Beyond the Tank is Up for the 2nd Week to a 4-Month High
ABC Friday Prime (8-11pm - 4.9 million and 1.1/5 in AD18-49): ABC won the final Friday of the 2015-16 season in Adults 18-49 by 22% over runner-up NBC with the 2-hour season finale of Grimm (1.1/5 vs. 0.9/4). ABC delivered Friday's Top 2 series in Adults 18-49 with Shark Tank and 20/20 tying for the #1 position (1.2/5). On average for the complete season, Shark Tank was once again Friday's #1 TV show in the key young adult sales demo.
Beyond the Tank (8-9pm - 3.9 million and 0.8/4 in AD18-49): At 8pm, ABC's Beyond the Tank gained viewers (+11% - 3.9 million vs. 3.5 million) and was up for the 2nd week in its new time slot among Adults 18-49 (+14% - 0.8/4 vs. 0.7/3) to earn its best numbers in 4 months - since 1/28/16, on Thursday at 8pm.
Shark Tank (9-10pm - 5.5 million and 1.2/5 in AD18-49): Spiking 50% at 9pm over its lead-in, ABC's season finale of Shark Tank led its slot by 33% over the second hour of NBC's 2-hour Grimm finale in Adults 18-49 (1.2/5 vs. 0.9/4). Shark Tank was up week to week in Total Viewers (+4%) and held even with Adults 18-49.
20/20 (10-11pm - 5.3 million and 1.2/5 in AD18-49): At 10pm, ABC's 20/20 led its hour among key Adults (AD18-49/AD25-54) and continued its run as Friday's #1 newsmagazine, dominating NBC's Dateline by double digits head to head with Total Viewers (+26% - 5.3 million vs. 4.2 million), Adults 18-49 (+33% - 1.2/5 vs 0.9/4) and Adults 25-54 (+31% - 1.7/6 vs. 1.3/4). The ABC newsmagazine delivered more overall viewers on the night than Dateline on each of the final 8 weeks of the season. 20/20 was rose by double digits week to week in Total Viewers (+18%), Adults 18-49 (+33%) and Adults 25-54 (+31%), matching its best young adult rating since mid-February - since 2/19/16.
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[09/25/26 - 10:35 AM] ESPN Delivered Its Most-Watched WNBA Regular Season Ever! Across 29 games, the WNBA on ESPN networks averaged 1.37M viewers, up 17% year-over-year and ranking as ESPN networks' most-viewed WNBA regular season on record.
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[09/24/26 - 12:25 PM] ABC News Wins Across the Board in Late Night and Friday Night "20/20" ranks as Friday's No. 1 newsmagazine in Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49, drawing its largest audience in two months and growing year to year in all key measures.
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[09/23/26 - 02:56 PM] Giants-Rams Becomes ESPN's Most-Watched Week 2 "Monday Night Football" Game Ever with 19.4 Million Viewers Through the first two weeks, "Monday Night Football" is averaging 21.4 million viewers, up 29% compared to the first two weeks of the 2025 season.
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[09/23/26 - 11:01 AM] Top 10 Most-Watched Prime Original Films & Series for the Week of September 14 "Reacher," "Neagley," "Sterling Point," "El Juicio," and "The Grand Tour" led all original series worldwide.
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[09/22/26 - 03:08 PM] Record-Breaking Week 3: ESPN/ABC Claim Every Saturday Window; "College GameDay" Continues Historic Start to the Season ESPN networks delivered the top five most-watched games of Week 3 and accounted for two-thirds of all college football viewing.
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[09/22/26 - 02:34 PM] FOX's "America's Game of the Week" Scores Regular Season High 27,212,000 Viewers in Week 2 Said coverage was up +8% vs. last year's full season average of 25,269,000 viewers.
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[09/22/26 - 02:17 PM] Colts-Chiefs Overtime Thriller Is Most Watched Week 2 NBC "Sunday Night Football" Game Since 2015, Averaging 24.3 Million Viewers on NBC & Peacock The audience for Colts-Chiefs peaked at 27.4 million viewers on NBC and Peacock in the second quarter (9:15-9:30 p.m. ET).
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[09/22/26 - 12:01 PM] Netflix Top 10: Week of September 14 - "Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Again?" Holds No. 1 for a Second Week "Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story" debuted at the top of the English TV list with 12.1 million views.
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[09/22/26 - 12:00 PM] "Dateline" Is the #1 Friday Newsmagazine in Both Key Demos for Second Consecutive Broadcast Season The broadcast remains the #1 most-watched news magazine franchise and #1 most-watched true-crime franchise in total linear minutes watched for the season, with 151.2 million total viewers, up +4% vs. last season.
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[09/21/26 - 07:02 AM] "Dancing with the Stars" Season 35 "Two-Night Premiere: Night 2" Swings to 6.44 Million Total Viewers as the Ladies Take Their Turn in the Ballroom "Dancing with the Stars" ranked as TV's No. 1 show in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49 on both Tuesday and Wednesday across all entertainment programming.
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[09/18/26 - 03:15 PM] ABC News' "Nightline" Wins Late Night Across the Board For the sixth week running, "Nightline" increased year to year in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54.
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[09/18/26 - 12:58 PM] Marking a Somber Anniversary of the September 11 Attacks, ABC News' 9/11 Special, Anchored by David Muir, Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer, Draws Over 4 Million Total Viewers The special was also the No. 1 non-sports program of the night in Adults 25-54 (802,000) and Adults 18-49 (559,000).
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[09/16/26 - 02:41 PM] "Monday Night Football" Opens Super Bowl LXI Season with Record-Setting Audience; Broncos-Chiefs Becomes Most-Watched Week 1 Game of ESPN's "MNF" Era The season opener between the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs delivered an audience of 23.2 million viewers across ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and NFL+.
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[09/16/26 - 02:30 PM] "Dancing with the Stars" Leaps Back Into the Ballroom as Tuesday's No. 1 Show, Delivering Nearly 7 Million Total Viewers - Scores Show's Biggest Season Premiere in 6 Years Among Adults 18-49, the "Dancing with the Stars" season opener jumped +40% over last year's premiere, with the show's best premiere performance in the key Adult demographic in nine years.
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[09/16/26 - 12:20 PM] Top 10 Most-Watched Prime Original Films & Series for the Week of September 7 "Reacher," "The Grand Tour," "Sterling Point," "Off Campus," and "LOL Next" led all original series worldwide.
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