MEDIA ALERT
NBC WINS FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THE NEW TV SEASON AND SEES YEAR-TO-YEAR GROWTH
"Law & Order," "SVU" and #OneChicago Also See Increases on Peacock
· After coming off a summer that NBC won for the 11th consecutive time, NBC has won the first two weeks of the TV season in total viewers for both entertainment-only programming and all programming. In addition, the network won in the 18-49 demo in the latter category for both weeks as well.
· NBC has now won the first official week of the TV season for seven consecutive years in total viewers and the 14th straight time in the demo.
· NBC was the only broadcast network to grow year-over-year during week #1. Several shows have also seen year-over-year growth on Peacock.
· The premiere episodes of "Law & Order" (up 56%) and "Law & Order: SVU" (up 46%) were up year over year on Peacock had their best performance ever on the streamer.
· Across all platforms (7-day), "Law & Order" and "SVU" amassed 6 million and 7.6 million viewers, respectively, both showing an increase over last season's premieres.
· On NBC, "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: SVU" were both up in week two over week one by 2%.
· "Chicago Med" (up 21%), "Chicago Fire" (up 13%) and "Chicago P.D." (up 11%) were year over year in their respective season premieres on Peacock.
· "Sunday Night Football" was the #1 show of the first week and the network delivered five of the top 10 shows.
· In entertainment-only programs, NBC had four of the top six shows - "The Voice" (Monday and Tuesday telecasts) and "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday and Wednesday telecasts).
· For its first two episodes (Sept. 30 and Oct. 3), "On Brand with Jimmy Fallon" reached more than 5.5 million viewers across NBC and Peacock.
· On Peacock, the new season of "The Voice" is up over last season's average.
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