U.S. Cable TV Network & Program Ratings
In the United States, cable television ratings is a national audience measurement system that projects the size and popularity of cable television programming. This activity is carried out by a company called Nielsen Media Research hence commonly known as Nielsen ratings.
Nielsen creates a random but representative sample audience of about 25,000 households across America to track what programs are being watched and by whom. By means of a meter attached to each television set of the participants, the media firm is able to get records of which channel is being watched at all times of the day, as individual buttons additionally record which person in a particular home is watching a given program, ensuring demographic tracking. The collected data is sent to the Nielsen computer center for crunching and analysis after which the final rating results are made available to the cable networks, advertisers, and the media.
Networks: Top 20
Apr 11, 2021| Rank | Name | R-Chg | Audience | A-Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fox News Channel | 1,195,000 | ||
| 2 | MSNBC | 959,000 | 6 | |
| 3 | CNN | 752,000 | 8 | |
| 4 | Home & Garden Television | 649,000 | ||
| 5 | ESPN | 483,000 | 16 | |
| 6 | Investigation Discovery | 1 | 474,000 | 4 |
| 6 | Hallmark Channel | 2 | 474,000 | 2 |
| 8 | Food Network | 1 | 456,000 | 4 |
| 9 | History Channel | 1 | 429,000 | 8 |
| 10 | INSP TV | 3 | 405,000 | 1 |
| 11 | TBS Network | 5 | 402,000 | 30 |
| 12 | TV Land | 2 | 384,000 | 3 |
| 13 | Turner Network Television | 3 | 378,000 | 2 |
| 13 | Lifetime Television | 1 | 378,000 | 7 |
| 15 | USA Network | 4 | 373,000 | 11 |
| 16 | Nickelodeon | 1 | 350,000 | 10 |
| 17 | Hallmark Movies & Mysteries | 1 | 339,000 | 9 |
| 18 | A&E Network | 1 | 329,000 | 2 |
| 19 | Discovery Channel | 1 | 315,000 | 10 |
| 20 | Game Show Network | 1 | 304,000 | 1 |
Programs: Top 20
March 2021| Rank | Name | R-Chg | Audience | A-Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tucker Carlson Tonight | 1 | 3,225,000 | 5 |
| 2 | The Rachel Maddow Show | 1 | 2,945,000 | 17 |
| 3 | Hannity | 2,869,000 | 2 | |
| 4 | The Five | 2,778,000 | 2 | |
| 5 | The Ingraham Angle | 3 | 2,238,000 | 2 |
| 6 | The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell | 1 | 2,019,000 | 21 |
| 7 | Special Report with Bret Baier | 5 | 2,006,000 | 2 |
| 8 | All In with Chris Hayes | 2 | 1,851,000 | 19 |
| 9 | Fox News Primetime | 7 | 1,779,000 | |
| 10 | Deadline: White House | 3 | 1,668,000 | 27 |
| 11 | The 11th Hour with Brian Williams | 1,624,000 | 21 | |
| 12 | The ReidOut with Joy Reid | 3 | 1,622,000 | 22 |
| 13 | The Beat with Ari Melber | 3 | 1,582,000 | 23 |
| 14 | Outnumbered | 5 | 1,449,000 | 3 |
| 15 | America's Newsroom | 5 | 1,372,000 | 3 |
| 16 | Fox News @ Night | 19 | 1,320,000 | 8 |
| 17 | The Faulkner Focus | 5 | 1,312,000 | 5 |
| 18 | Your World with Neil Cavuto | 14 | 1,304,000 | 3 |
| 19 | America Reports | 9 | 1,276,000 | 3 |
| 20 | The Lead with Jake Tapper | 2 | 1,193,000 | 24 |
All ratings data are live + same-day as provided by The Nielsen Company.
