Television ratings
Atlanta’s 6-2 victory over Houston in World Series Game 1 drew an average of 10,811,000 viewers on Fox, up 17.5% from the record low of 9,195,000 for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ opening 8-3 win over Tampa Bay last year.
Tom Brady wins in the television ratings, too. The Tampa Bay quarterback’s return to his old haunts in New England led NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” to its best ratings in years.
Television viewers are ready for some football. Three college games from the opening weekend of the season were among the four most popular programs on TV last week, led by Georgia handing third-ranked Clemson a loss.
NEW YORK (AP) — Television ratings for the NBA Finals and playoffs posted sizable increases over last year.
The television rating for baseball’s All-Star Game sank to a record low but viewers increased by 1%.
The Nielsen company’s weekly list of popular television and streaming shows had one thing in common, the long-running CBS drama ‘NCIS.’
President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress was seen by an estimated 26.9 million viewers across 16 television networks.
NEW YORK (AP) — The first inaugurations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama were the only ones to exceed Joe Biden’s in popularity among television viewers over the past 40 years.
NFL ratings through the first four weeks of the regular season have shown a 5% increase over last season.
NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 13 million people watched former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before two House committees on the biggest broadcast and cable news networks.
NEW YORK (AP) — A case can be made that “Jeopardy!” savant James Holzhauer is one of the year’s biggest TV stars, although a short-lived one.
Michigan State’s dramatic NCAA Tournament victory over Duke drew a 10.5 television rating, the highest for a late Sunday regional final in 14 years.
NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Jan. 9 about television ratings for President Donald Trump’s prime-time speech Tuesday, The Associated Press erroneously reported the estimated number of viewers.
NEW YORK (AP) — Score one week for NBC in what’s becoming an intriguing battle with CBS for dominance in the television ratings this season.
After years of declines, NFL television ratings are showing modest gains.

Three of the league’s television partners have shown increases after the first nine weeks of the season while one remains flat.
NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA Finals led ABC to victory in the television ratings last week, but it must have been hard for network executives not to wonder what could have been.