Weekly Nielsen Ratings: 1979-80 TV Season

Below are the weekly Nielsen ratings results for the 1979-80 television season. Viewership wasn't reported by Nielsen until the fall 1988 season, so up until that point the only metric widely available was the household rating (which is what is reported here in this article). To calculate the estimated number of households watching, just multiply each rating by 763,000 as that is what 1 rating point represents. 

Full weekly household ratings for every show weren't made available until 1981, so only partial results are available for this season. Most weeks have the top 20 weekly ratings available, but 2 weeks have only the top 15 (Dec. 23, 1979 & Jan. 13, 1980) and 1 week has only the top 10 (May 4, 1980). The data for the top 20 programs comes from Newsday, data for the top 15 programs comes from The New York Times, and the data for the top 10 comes from the Raleigh News and Observer.

Additionally, the second document includes full rankings (without ratings) from The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and these are available for nearly every week of the proper season (not the summer) except for the following weeks: w/e Dec. 23, 1979 (only top 20), Dec. 30, 1979, Jan. 6, 1980, and May 11, 1980. The final week of full rankings is the week ending May 18, 1980.

Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending June 18, 2006

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 39th week of the 2005-06 television broadcast season; most reruns are excluded from the list. Final household (HH) ratings, 18-49 ratings, and viewership (in millions) are provided in the first chart. The second chart includes data for cable programs that aired this week.

Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending April 2, 2000

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 28th week of the 1999-00 television broadcast season; most reruns are excluded from the list. Final household (HH) ratings, 18-49 ratings, and viewership (in millions) are provided in the first chart. The bottom charts include data for cable programs that aired this week.

Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending April 25, 2010

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 31st week of the 2009-10 television broadcast season. The first chart includes final household, 18-49, and 25-54 ratings, as well final viewership figures (most to three digits) for all first-run broadcast programs that aired during the week. The second chart includes data for cable programs that aired this week, and the final charts include time-shifted DVR ratings for both broadcast and cable programs (if available). Note: most reruns are excluded from these charts.

Top Streaming (SVOD) Ratings: Week Ending November 28, 2021

Below are the weekly streaming/video-on-demand (SVOD) ratings for the week ending November 28, 2021. The chart below includes the top 10 original programs, top 10 movies, and top 10 acquired programs from Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Apple TV+ measured on total minutes of watch-time. The data represents only viewing within the U.S. and comes from Nielsen Media Research.

After a mere 1-week reign atop the streaming originals chart, Amazon's 'Wheel of Time' fell to the 3rd spot this week with 663 million minutes of watch-time. Two new entries filled the top of the chart with Netflix's 'True Story' at #1 (943 million) and Disney+'s 'Hawkeye' at #2 (853 million). With 'Hawkeye,' Disney+ saw its best performance for an original since the week ending Jul. 18, 2021 when 'Loki' logged 1.01 billion minutes. Other original debuts this week include Disney+'s 'The Beatles: Get Back' (503 million) and Netflix's 'Selling Sunset' (549 million) & 'The Queen of Flow' (480 million). On the movie front, 'Red Notice' led for a third week (954 million) while 'Cocomelon' led the acquired programming chart for a fifth week (797 million).

Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending March 26, 2000

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 27th week of the 1999-00 television broadcast season; most reruns are excluded from the list. Final household (HH) ratings, 18-49 ratings, and viewership (in millions) are provided in the first chart. The bottom charts include data for cable programs that aired this week.

Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending June 11, 2006

Below are the Nielsen ratings for the 38th week of the 2005-06 television broadcast season; most reruns are excluded from the list. Final household (HH) ratings, 18-49 ratings, and viewership (in millions) are provided in the first chart. The second chart includes data for cable programs that aired this week.