With an 8.75% Viewership Share, ABC Wins for TV Network Watch-Time
ABC's 8.75% viewership share was driven largely by college football, Good Morning America and the NFL’s Monday Night Football, per Inscape.
Each week, we highlight the most-watched shows and networks using insights from Inscape, the currency-grade smart TV ACR data provider and data technology division of Vizio. Data is linear, live TV only and includes all episode types (new and reruns). Rankings are by percent share duration (i.e., time spent watching). Here's a look at the top 25 networks by viewership share for October 14-20 — head over to TVREV to see the program ranking and get insights about the top shows by watch-time.
ABC moves from second to first place week-over-week, with its 8.75% viewership share driven largely by college football, Good Morning America and the NFL’s Monday Night Football. NBC sinks one spot to No. 2, with top programming including Sunday Night Football, Today and The Voice.
Some additional highlights around the most-watched TV networks:
- Cable sports networks FS1 and ESPN2 both move up the ranking compared to the previous week, with the former driven in part by the MLB playoffs and the latter benefitting from college football games.
- Hallmark, which kicked off its annual “Countdown to Christmas” movie slate on Oct. 18, rises from No. 13 to No. 10 week-over-week. Outside of holiday fare, reruns of The Golden Girls helped fuel its 1.62% viewership share.
- TLC was the sole week-over-week ranking newcomer, landing at No. 24 with a 0.71% viewership share.
On the programming side of things, eight Fox News shows rise in the ranking week-over-week — Read more on TVREV.
