The highest of the three-day Nielsen scores for the week of Oct. 18-24 is heavier on sports activities than standard, at the very least amongst adults 18-49.
Eight of the highest 10 exhibits in the important thing advert demographic for the week had been dwell sports activities telecasts, led by the three primetime NFL video games. 4 video games from baseball’s league championship sequence and a contest from the NBA’s opening night time additionally made the highest 10.
Issues had been extra tilted towards leisure programming on the overall viewer facet, per standard, since dwell sports activities doesn’t have a tendency so as to add a lot viewers with delayed viewing. The three NFL video games are once more on prime, however 15 of the remaining 17 exhibits within the prime 20 are leisure exhibits; CBS’ 60 Minutes and recreation six of the Nationwide League championship are the exceptions.
60 Minutes (which benefited from an NFL lead-in) was additionally the highest non-sports program in adults 18-49 with a 1.49 score. ABC’s Gray’s Anatomy had the largest demo achieve of any present within the prime 20, rising by 0.51 factors to 1.13. CBS’ Blue Bloods added probably the most whole viewers (3.15 million) to finish with 9.21 million after three days.
Beneath are the highest 20 exhibits in three-day scores for the week of Oct. 18-24.
Whole Viewers
| Present | Community | Dwell +3 viewers (000s) | Change vs. dwell + SD (000s) | % change vs. dwell + SD |
| Sunday Evening Soccer | NBC | 16,211 | 98 | 1% |
| Thursday Evening Soccer | Fox | 13,097 | 103 | 1% |
| Monday Evening Soccer | ESPN | 12,653 | 123 | 1% |
| 60 Minutes | CBS | 11,038 | 514 | 5% |
| NCIS | CBS | 10,689 | 3,039 | 40% |
| The Equalizer | CBS | 9,877 | 2,066 | 26% |
| Chicago Hearth | NBC | 9,498 | 2,139 | 29% |
| Blue Bloods | CBS | 9,206 | 3,154 | 52% |
| Chicago Med | NBC | 8,471 | 1,703 | 25% |
| Younger Sheldon | CBS | 8,236 | 1,878 | 30% |
| Chicago PD | NBC | 8,101 | 2,533 | 45% |
| The Voice – Tues. | NBC | 7,598 | 868 | 13% |
| 911 | Fox | 7,484 | 2,202 | 42% |
| NCIS Hawai’i | CBS | 7,406 | 2,054 | 38% |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | CBS | 7,401 | 1,618 | 28% |
| The Voice – Mon. | NBC | 7,393 | 1,029 | 16% |
| La Brea | NBC | 7,160 | 2,039 | 40% |
| Ghosts | CBS | 7,141 | 1,942 | 37% |
| Survivor | CBS | 7,088 | 1,462 | 26% |
| NL Championship Sequence Gm 6 | TBS | 6,987 | 38 | 1% |
Adults 18-49
| Present | Community | Dwell +3 18-49 score |
Change vs. dwell + SD | % change vs. dwell + SD |
| Sunday Evening Soccer | NBC | 4.37 | 0.01 | < 1% |
| Monday Evening Soccer | ESPN | 4.09 | 0.03 | < 1% |
| Thursday Evening Soccer | Fox | 3.74 | 0.02 | < 1% |
| NL Championship Sequence Gm 6 | TBS | 1.75 | 0.01 | < 1% |
| 60 Minutes | CBS | 1.49 | 0.05 | 3% |
| NL Championship Sequence Gm 4 | TBS | 1.36 | — | — |
| NBA Basketball – Tues. 10:08 p.m. | TNT | 1.33 | 0.02 | 1% |
| AL Championship Sequence Gm 6 | FS1 | 1.29 | — | — |
| NL Championship Sequence Sport 5 | TBS | 1.29 | — | — |
| The Masked Singer | Fox | 1.28 | 0.33 | 35% |
| Survivor | CBS | 1.28 | 0.27 | 26% |
| 911 | Fox | 1.24 | 0.44 | 55% |
| Chicago Hearth | NBC | 1.21 | 0.39 | 48% |
| Chicago PD | NBC | 1.17 | 0.47 | 68% |
| Gray’s Anatomy | ABC | 1.13 | 0.51 | 82% |
| Legislation & Order: SVU | NBC | 1.10 | 0.46 | 71% |
| The Equalizer | CBS | 1.09 | 0.26 | 31% |
| AL Championship Sequence Gm 4 | FS1 | 1.02 | — | — |
| Chicago Med | NBC | 1.02 | 0.29 | 40% |
| The Bachelorette | ABC | 1.0 | 0.21 | 26% |
