Nielsen Social Ratings: October 17 – October 23
Another week of fall television, another week of Nielsen Social Ratings. Given what aired this past week, there aren’t many surprises. Let’s talk social ratings.
The final Presidential Debate before the Election took the top spot in the Social Ratings, earning over 53 million interactions across social media. The number two spot doesn’t come as a surprise either as The Walking Dead premiered last night and had people talking about a fan favorite whose fate met Negan’s bat well into Monday (and are still trying to get over the shock). Meanwhile, Talking Dead notched the number six spot.
Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture got the number three spot while last week’s Monday Night RAW stuck it out in the ratings taking the number four spot.
Check out the full ranking below.
As a refresher: the Content Ratings use the total number of social interactions across Facebook and Twitter to rank the top 10 series/specials and sporting events, separately. The chart includes uniques, which are “unique social media accounts that have authored original content related to a linear TV episode or engaged with that content,” and interactions, which are “original social media posts related to a linear TV episode and the engagement with that content.”
| NETWORK / PROGRAM | DATE | UNIQUES (000) |
INTERACTIONS (000) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TV EVENT Presidential Debate |
10/19/16 |
16,879
|
53,243
|
|
| 2 | AMC The Walking Dead |
10/23/16 |
6,475
|
14,409
|
|
| 3 | FOX The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
10/20/16 |
864
|
1,501
|
|
| 4 | USA NETWORK WWE Monday Night RAW |
10/17/16 |
316
|
585
|
|
| 5 | FX American Horror Story: 6 |
10/19/16 |
249
|
390
|
|
| 6 | AMC Talking Dead |
10/23/16 |
197
|
313
|
|
| 7 | PBS Hamilton’s America |
10/21/16 |
165
|
301
|
|
| 8 | NBC The Voice |
10/17/16 |
195
|
292
|
|
| 9 | NBC Saturday Night Live |
10/22/16 |
171
|
249
|
|
| 10 | CMT CMT Artists of the Year 2016 |
10/20/16 |
177
|
229
|
|
Law student by day (and night), Brianna spends her time away from books, briefs, and outlines watching TV and writing about it at TwoCentsTV, TheTVAddict, and now here at FanFest. Superheroes and a crime-fighting zombie currently rule her DVR. All other nerdy musings 140 characters or fewer at @WhenWatchingTV
