the ratings
plural noun
: numbers that show how many people watch or listen to a particular television or radio program
a show that's down in the ratings.
Examples of the ratings in a Sentence
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Iowa’s championship game loss to South Carolina drew nearly 19 million viewers, most of any hoops game since 2019, eclipsing the ratings of every sport outside of football and the Olympics in that time frame.
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Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2024
The water-cooler nature of the episode paid off in the ratings, as SNL hit some of its best numbers of recent years.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2024
So the task was to use that data to create an algorithm that would predict whether someone would like a movie based on their previous ratings, not just their ratings, but the ratings of everyone in this data set.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
But the coverage of the trial — and the ratings bonanza that ensued – underscored just how valuable opinions and takes could be.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
The exchange appeared only on the live ABC telecast, which placed a distant third in the ratings to Walter Cronkite’s CBS and Huntley–Brinkley’s NBC.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 7 Apr. 2024
The raucous host gave a spotlight to conspiracy theories from NFL player Aaron Rodgers and spent time calling out Williamson for what McAfee said were leaks to media outlets about the ratings performance of his program.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
Tour Casey Benjamin, Ace Multi-Instrumentalist for Robert Glasper, A Tribe Called Quest, Dead at 45
For Flaherty, though, there was something about Freaks and Geeks that was reminiscent of SCTV — a piece of television brilliance that just wasn’t catching on in the ratings.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
And now those former employees, along with a slew of former child actors, have horror stories to tell thanks to a network that failed to protect the children behind the ratings.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2024
The water-cooler nature of the episode paid off in the ratings, as SNL hit some of its best numbers of recent years.
—Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2024
So the task was to use that data to create an algorithm that would predict whether someone would like a movie based on their previous ratings, not just their ratings, but the ratings of everyone in this data set.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
But the coverage of the trial — and the ratings bonanza that ensued – underscored just how valuable opinions and takes could be.
—Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
The exchange appeared only on the live ABC telecast, which placed a distant third in the ratings to Walter Cronkite’s CBS and Huntley–Brinkley’s NBC.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 7 Apr. 2024
The raucous host gave a spotlight to conspiracy theories from NFL player Aaron Rodgers and spent time calling out Williamson for what McAfee said were leaks to media outlets about the ratings performance of his program.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
Tour Casey Benjamin, Ace Multi-Instrumentalist for Robert Glasper, A Tribe Called Quest, Dead at 45
For Flaherty, though, there was something about Freaks and Geeks that was reminiscent of SCTV — a piece of television brilliance that just wasn’t catching on in the ratings.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2024
And now those former employees, along with a slew of former child actors, have horror stories to tell thanks to a network that failed to protect the children behind the ratings.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
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