Animal Planet
Super Bowl LII may not have broken any viewership records, but Animal Planet’s cuddly counter-programming “Puppy Bowl XIV” sure did.
With a 1.46 rating among adults 25-54, Sunday’s 3-5 p.m. ET premiere telecast marked the highest-rated “Puppy Bowl” ever, TheWrap has learned. That Nielsen number is a massive (err, a Great Dane-sized?) 32 percent better than last year’s version.
“XIV” rolled over the Discovery cable channel’s previous franchise record-holder, “Puppy Bowl X,” by 17 percent. We’ll save you the finger-counting — that one aired back in 2014. As a matter of fact, yesterday’s “Puppy Bowl” was the channel’s No. 3-rated telecast ever.
Super Bowl Low Ratings continue to plague tone deaf NFL
by DYLAN GWINN5 Feb 20183956
, Super Bowl LII will go down as one of the most entertaining championship games in recent memory. However, for the NFL, it will go down as the lowest-rated Super Bowl game in recent memory.
The Eagles 41-33 victory over the Patriots drew a 47.4/70 in metered markets. That’s down nearly three percent from last year’s thriller between the Patriots and the Falcons. It’s a 5 percent drop from the last time NBC had the big game in 2014, when the Patriots beat the Seahawks.
Looked at broadly, Super Bowl LII is the lowest-rated Super Bowl game since 2010, when the Colts and Saints, two smallish market teams, faced-off against each other: Read More