NEW YORK — Ryan Seacrestis still the king Television on New Year’s EveNo matter what Andy Cohen thinks.
Seacrest, the inheritor from ABC’s 50-year old “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”The Nielsen company stated that Dick Clark’s show reached 19.6 millions viewers last weekend between 11:30 and 12:30 a.m. His audience jumped to 24.2million people in the 15-minute time period where the ball was dropped at New York’s Times Square.
Nielsen stated that it was the show’s largest audience in four years.
A drunken Andy CohenAnderson Cooper and he were co-hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve Special from Times Square. Anderson Cooper was also present. Anderson Cooper was not impressed by the fact that he used the term “referring to”. “Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers.”He stated that viewers of ABC were able to see the difference. “seen nothing.”
Cohen, who was still sober two days later on SiriusXM, stated that he loved Seacrest. “He’s a great guy, and I really regret saying that. I was just stupid and drunk and feeling it,”He stated.
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Cohen said that he was happy to call Bill de Blasio (former New York City Mayor) “a horrible mayor.”CNN scolded Cohen for saying it. But, the network made a point out of Cohen being invited back to the New Year celebration.
CNN’s celebration of Cohen and Cooper with a lot of shots reached 3.3million viewers between 11 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. This was more than Fox News Channel’s Nashville-based show which attracted 2.1 million viewers.
NBC tried a brand new show with Miley CyrusAnd Pete DavidsonNielsen stated that the number of viewers for, reached 6.3million during the same time period as Seacrest’s fest. The CBS country-oriented program had 5.2 millions viewers.
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NBC had the highest average prime-time viewership of 4.4 million, compared to Fox and ABC. CBS had 3.9million viewers, Fox had 3million viewers, ABC had 2.8 million, ABC had 3. million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo was 890,000.
ESPN, with its schedule full of college football bowl games and other events, had the highest prime time average of any network at 8.09 million last week. Fox News Channel ranked second with 1.72 million subscribers, Paramount had 1.59million, Hallmark had 1.3million, and HGTV had 1.07million.
Evening news ratings weren’t immediately available.
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The top 20 prime-time programming, their networks and viewerships were revealed for the week from December 27 to January 2.
1. NFL Football: Minnesota at Green Bay, NBC 18.55 million
2. College Football Playoff: Georgia against Michigan, ESPN, 16.51 millions
3. Rose Bowl: Ohio State against Utah, ESPN, 15.99 Million
4. “College Football Studio” (Friday, 7:28 p.m.), ESPN, 15.97 million.
5. “NFL Pregame Show,” NBC, 14.68 million.
6. “The OT,” Fox, 14.25 million.
7. “College Football Studio” (Friday, 7:11 p.m.), ESPN, 13.4 million.
8. NFL Football: Miami to New Orleans, ESPN 12.31 million.
9. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 11.17 million.
10. Sugar Bowl: Baylor vs. Mississippi on ESPN, 9.51 Million
11. “Yellowstone,” Paramount, 9.34 million.
12. “Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” ABC, 8.79 million.
13. Peach Bowl: Pittsburgh vs. Michigan St. ESPN, 7.65 millions
14. “College Football Studio” (Friday 11 p.m.), ESPN, 7.15 million.
15. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.09 million.
16. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 6.53 million.
17. “Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party,” NBC, 5.82 million.
18. “Football Night in America, Part 2,” NBC, 5.263 million.
19. “The Price is Right 50th Anniversary,” CBS, 5.258 million.
20. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 5.17 million.
