Final broadcast primetime live + same-day ratings for Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016
The World Series scored its biggest Game 1 audience since 2009 Tuesday night. The game drew 19.37 million viewers (a 30 percent jump over last year’s opener) and a 5.6 rating in adults 18-49, up from 4.6 last year (a 22 percent improvement).
The only other adjustment from Tuesday’s early ratings was for ABC’s “American Housewife.” It adjusted up a tenth of a point in adults 18-49 to a 1.6, a tenth behind last week.
Upward adjustments in adults 18-49 are in green; downward adjustments are in red.
| Time | Show | Adults 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (millions) |
| 8 p.m. | World Series Game 1 (FOX) (8-11:45 p.m.) | 5.6/19 | 19.37 |
| The Voice (NBC) | 2.1/7 | 9.41 | |
| NCIS (CBS) | 1.7/6 | 14.08 | |
| The Middle (ABC) | 1.5/6 | 5.72 | |
| The Flash (The CW) | 1.0/3 | 2.80 | |
| 8:30 p.m. | American Housewife (ABC) | 1.6/5 | 5.20 |
| 9 p.m. | This Is Us (NBC) | 2.4/8 | 8.68 |
| Bull (CBS) | 1.5/5 | 11.61 | |
| Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) | 1.2/4 | 3.98 | |
| No Tomorrow (The CW) | 0.3/1 | 0.78 | |
| 9:30 p.m. | The Real O’Neals (ABC) | 1.0/3 | 3.22 |
| 10 p.m. | Chicago Fire (NBC) | 1.6/6 | 6.93 |
| NCIS: New Orleans (CBS) | 1.3/5 | 9.62 | |
| Agents of SHIELD (ABC) | 0.8/3 | 2.30 |
Network averages:
| FOX | NBC | CBS | ABC | CW | |
| Adults 18-49 rating/share | 5.6/19 | 2.0/7 | 1.5/5 | 1.2/4 | 0.6/2 |
| Total Viewers (millions) | 19.37 | 8.34 | 11.77 | 3.79 | 1.79 |
Definitions:
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings are available at approximately 11 a.m. ET the day after telecast. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time.
Time Shifted Viewing: Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live +Same-Day and Live +7 Day. Time-shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs. Live+SD includes viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3 a.m. local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live +7 ratings include viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
Source: The Nielsen Company.
