RATINGS
Sunday’s season 7 finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones hit a series topping 12.1 million viewers, up 13% from its previous high. Add in the first replay and HBO Go and HBO Now, and the total rises to 16.5 million.
New comedy adventure series DuckTales premiered with a one-hour movie that ranks as Disney XD’s #1 original animated telecast in 17 months among Kids 2-11 (365,000/.9 rating) and its #1 telecast overall among Boys 2-11 (257,000/1.3) since 3/30/16 and 4/13/16, respectively, in Live+7 ratings.
NIELSEN SOCIAL CONTENT RATINGS: Top Series and Specials by Total Interactions for the week of August 21, 2017
Program, Total Interactions (000), Facebook (000), Twitter (000)
Game of Thrones (HBO) 4175, 3093, 1082
MTV Video Music Awards (MTV) 3961, 1702, 2259
Presidential Address (TV Event) 1158, 601, 557
Black Girls Rock! (BET) 424, 330, 95
WWE Monday Night RAW (USA) 374, 253, 121
WWE Smackdown! (USA) 240, 152, 88
Big Brother (CBS) 211, 169, 42
Premios Tu Mundo (Telemundo) 195, 176, 20
Big Brother (CBS) 189, 161, 27
Big Brother (CBS) 187, 138, 49
Source: Nielsen. Uniques and Interactions are a measure of total relevant U.S. social media activity grossed across Facebook and Twitter from three hours before through three hours after broadcast, local time. Includes primetime and late fringe programming with metrics available across social platforms on Broadcast and National Cable and excludes sports events.
SHAREABLEE SOCIAL TV RATINGS: Top 10 U.S. Shows Overall by Engagement for the week of August 21, 2017
Program, Total Actions (000), Total Content, Actions per Content (000), Fans/Followers (000)
E! News 4694, 788, 6, 30366
Game of Thrones (HBO) 2706, 85, 32, 32356
America’s Got Talent (NBC) 1373, 308, 4, 10648
TMZ (synd.) 1340, 1012, 1, 13536
Today Show (NBC) 1279, 606, 2, 11991
Good Morning America (ABC) 1148, 621, 2, 12010
NBC Nightly News (NBC) 714, 693, 1, 4237
The Daily Show (Comedy Central) 712, 104, 7, 15086
Fox & Friends (Fox News) 597, 191, 3, 1526
The Fosters (Freeform) 562, 167, 3, 3974
Based on Total Actions (reactions, comments, shares and retweets)
Live + Same Day Household Viewers (millions): Friday, August 25, 2017 time period averages.
Source: NTI, Galaxy as dated. Live+SD
CBS: 4.82 million
NFL Preseason Football 4.82
NBC: 3.96 million
America’s Got Talent 3.76, Dateline 4.35 million
ABC: 3.65 million
Shark Tank 3.79, What Would You Do? 3.32, 20/20 3.86
UNIVISION 1.63 million
Enamorandome de Ramon 1.62, Mi Marido tie Familia 1.74, Tierra Prometida 1.54
TELEMUNDO: 1.70 million
Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio 1.66, Sin Senos si Hay Paraiso 1.59, El Senor de los Cielos 1.86
FOX: 2.03 million
MasterChef 2.03
CW: 1.43 million
Masters of Illusion 1.41, Masters of Illusion 1.40, Penn & Teller: Fool Us 1.46
Friday A18-49: CBS 1.2/6, NBC .8.3, ABC .7/3, FOX .6/3, TELE .6/3, UNI .5/2, CW .3/1
Source: Nielsen
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Erin Calhoun has joined Showtime Networks as Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications. Most recently, Calhoun served as VP of Corporate Communications for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment.
Jake Strasser was promoted to Vice President of Studios at NBTV from Director of Content & Business Development, and Carmen Simon was upped to Vice President of Production from Producer. New hires include Chief of Staff, NBTV Studios Natasha Leath, and CFO, NBTV Studios, Wendell Fowler.
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises appointed Karen Barroeta as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Creative for the Telemundo Networks. Previously, Barroeta was SVP, Marketing & Creative for NBCUniversal International Networks Spanish Latin America.