{"id":700765,"date":"2026-06-13T01:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/700765\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T01:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:10:12","slug":"sunday-night-football-beats-stranger-things-in-7-day-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/700765\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sunday Night Football’ Beats ‘Stranger Things’ in 7-Day Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe addition of streaming to existing on-air TV ratings<\/a> means there are more ways to parse the numbers. Already in recent weeks, lists of the season\u2019s best-performing shows over 28 days<\/a> and 35 days<\/a>, covering most \u2014\u00a0but not all \u2014\u00a0of the 2025-26 season have been released.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow comes the first set of numbers covering the entirety of the Nielsen-designated season (Sept. 14, 2025-May 20, 2026). They include seven days of multi-platform ratings; another set of 35-day numbers will likely come in another few weeks, also covering the full season.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat all these multi-platform numbers (which come from Nielsen via the PR shops of their network and streamer clients) have in common is that they focus on entertainment programming. Live sports and news programs are usually left out. But The Hollywood Reporter decided to add them in.<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow are the top 30 shows with seven days of multi-platform viewing, were that data was available. Even without full streaming data, however, four primetime sports and news programs made the rankings. In those cases, they\u2019re ranked by linear audiences only or, for NBC\u2019s , the combination of its Nielsen linear average and streaming data from Adobe Analytics. <\/p>\n

\n\tA few takeaways:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2022 Over seven days, nothing on TV was bigger than Sunday Night Football\u2018s 23.5 million viewers this season. Even Netflix\u2019s Stranger Things<\/a> (22.38 million) didn\u2019t quite match it, though it continued to grow considerably over several more weeks, hitting 32.9 million viewers after 35 days.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2022 All but five of the top 30 shows over seven days begin their lives on broadcast networks. That balance shifts some the farther out Nielsen measures\u00a0\u2014\u00a0after 28 and 35 days, about half of the top shows are exclusive to streaming services (not including sports). <\/p>\n

\n\t\u2022 The biggest disparity between the seven- and 35-day ratings belongs to Netflix\u2019s His & Hers. The limiited series had a solid 9.56 million viewers after seven days, but it grew more in the subsequent four weeks than any other show. By 35 days after its premiere, it had more than doubled to 24.2 million viewers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2022 In the adults 18-49 demographic, Sunday Night Football and ABC and ESPN\u2019s ranked first and second, far above everything else (demographic data for streaming-only shows wasn\u2019t available). ABC shows had five of next seven spots, led by High Potential<\/a> with a 2.27 rating (equivalent to about 3.1 million viewers ages 18-49). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe top 30 shows across all platforms are below, followed by the 22 highest-rated network series among adults 18-49.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The addition of streaming to existing on-air TV ratings means there are more ways to parse the numbers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,5920,292622,223967,50687,13671,67239,95447,9611],"class_list":["post-700765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-high-potential","tag-his-hers","tag-marshals","tag-monday-night-football","tag-stranger-things","tag-streaming-ratings","tag-sunday-night-football","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}