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
Sep 12, 2021| Rank | Name | R-Chg | Audience | A-Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fox News Channel | 1,378,000 | 11 | |
| 2 | ESPN | 2 | 820,000 | 32 |
| 3 | MSNBC | 1 | 650,000 | 13 |
| 4 | Home & Garden Television | 1 | 600,000 | |
| 5 | CNN | 2 | 532,000 | 19 |
| 6 | Hallmark Channel | 1 | 473,000 | 6 |
| 7 | INSP TV | 1 | 457,000 | 1 |
| 8 | Investigation Discovery | 446,000 | 1 | |
| 9 | Food Network | 430,000 | 1 | |
| 10 | History Channel | 3 | 419,000 | 18 |
| 11 | USA Network | 1 | 385,000 | 1 |
| 12 | Turner Network Television | 3 | 381,000 | 11 |
| 13 | TV Land | 2 | 342,000 | 5 |
| 14 | Nickelodeon | 2 | 339,000 | 5 |
| 15 | Lifetime Television | 1 | 331,000 | 6 |
| 16 | TLC | 326,000 | 2 | |
| 17 | Game Show Network | 325,000 | 4 | |
| 18 | TBS Network | 2 | 317,000 | 6 |
| 19 | Hallmark Movies & Mysteries | 5 | 309,000 | 8 |
| 20 | Discovery Channel | 2 | 283,000 | 8 |
Programs: Top 20
August 2021| Rank | Name | R-Chg | Audience | A-Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tucker Carlson Tonight | 3,302,000 | 9 | |
| 2 | The Five | 1 | 3,106,000 | 23 |
| 3 | Hannity | 1 | 3,009,000 | 12 |
| 4 | The Ingraham Angle | 1 | 2,394,000 | 16 |
| 5 | Special Report with Bret Baier | 1 | 2,186,000 | 22 |
| 6 | The Rachel Maddow Show | 2 | 2,063,000 | 10 |
| 7 | Fox News Primetime | 1,957,000 | 17 | |
| 8 | Your World with Neil Cavuto | 12 | 1,696,000 | 47 |
| 9 | Outnumbered | 1 | 1,673,000 | 21 |
| 10 | Gutfeld! | 2 | 1,667,000 | 10 |
| 11 | The Story with Martha MacCallum | 8 | 1,632,000 | 40 |
| 12 | America Reports | 4 | 1,587,000 | 31 |
| 13 | The Faulkner Focus | 1 | 1,559,000 | 22 |
| 14 | America's Newsroom | 2 | 1,538,000 | 15 |
| 15 | The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell | 6 | 1,370,000 | 9 |
| 16 | Deadline: White House | 3 | 1,258,000 | 3 |
| 17 | The Beat with Ari Melber | 2 | 1,251,000 | |
| 18 | All In with Chris Hayes | 7 | 1,220,000 | 11 |
| 19 | Fox & Friends | 2 | 1,215,000 | 8 |
| 20 | The ReidOut with Joy Reid | 2 | 1,106,000 | 6 |
All ratings data are live + same-day as provided by The Nielsen Company.
