Last week the top rated show on TV was Sunday Night Football on NBC--the Giants vs the Cowboys played in the spanking new stadium in Dallas. There were 24.8 million viewers--a record for NBC's Sunday Night Football and the most-watched regular-season prime-time NFL game in 12 years. That's a 15.1 rating (percentage of all TV homes).
How did the Emmys do in comparison? They were the 5th most watched show last week with 13.5 million viewers. That's an 8.7 rating (percentage of all TV homes).
You can see the full Top 20 list if you are interested.
And you can find lots of fascinating ratings info and assorted details at TV By the Numbers.
But a recent article in the Plain Dealer about westerns on TV reminds us that these numbers are paltry when compared to the Golden Age of TV in the 1950s when shows like Bonanza routinely has a 39.6 rating (percentage of all TV homes).
As the Plain Dealer reports:
To put that in some perspective, consider that, during its best year, "American Idol" managed a 17.6 rating. But consider also that the 14th-highest-rated Western in 1959 was "Rawhide," with young Clint Eastwood as Rowdy Yates, and it posted a (ready?) 25.9 rating.
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