5 months ago
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve rang successful 2026 pinch a ratings victory.
The yearly typical celebrated nan caller twelvemonth pinch 30M viewers astatine midnight ET connected ABC. That’s a 35.1% summation complete past year’s assemblage of 22.2M erstwhile nan shot dropped successful Times Square and a four-year high.
Per early Nielsen data, nan late-night version of nan typical from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. averaged 18.8M viewers, besides up somewhat from 2025. Out-of-home viewing is not disposable successful early reporting from Nielsen, truthful this number is apt to increase.
Meanwhile, successful primetime, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve led broadcast from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. pinch 7.03M viewers, posting a 12% summation complete past year.
The assemblage grew arsenic nan nighttime went on, arsenic expected, pinch 10.59M viewers from 10:30 to 11:30 p.m. ET. The 2nd portion of nan primetime typical roseate conscionable a hairsbreadth complete 2025’s 9.31M.
As nan nighttime wore on, things began to dwindle again, though a sizable assemblage stuck astir until astir 2 a.m. ABC’s late-late-night typical generated 8.25M viewers from 12:30 a.m. to 1:51 a.m. That is astir double past year’s 4.45M and an eight-year high.
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