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Oprah/Michael Jackson

I'm pretty sure the Michael Jackson interview mentioned in the table for American broadcasts was not presented under the "Oprah Winfrey Show" bannner and instead was advertised, promoted and broadcast as "Oprah Winfrey talks to Michael Jackson". It was produced by Harpo but was a different entity altogether no? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.23.53.81 (talk) 23:50, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Presidential Politics

What's missing from the U.S. charts on this page is anything related to presidential politics - convention speeches or presidential debates. For example, the 2008 vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden reportedly had 70 million viewers. The first presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain reportedly had 53 million viewers; and each of the two presidential nominating speeches had roughly 40 million viewers. Why aren't these events included? Is it because they were multi-network events? Karichisholm (talk) 06:54, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Also ... there is this headline ... Obama Inauguration Likely To Be Most Watched Event in Television History ... see . Thanks. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 19:22, 21 January 2009 (UTC))

Moon landing?

Why is the moon landing not even mentioned on this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.69.86 (talk) 01:12, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Seinfeld finale

I think the Seinfeld finale needs to be added to the list of broadcasts. With 75 million it should be up there Johnny 08:54, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Elvis Presley - 1973 Aloha from Hawaii

I have added the global figure for this in the relevant section, I'm still trying to find definitive evidence for this for the America audience figures. Several sources give the viewing audience in America as 51% to 57% of the T.V audience, however I can't find figures for this percentage, anyone have any idea? It was aired by NBC on the 4th of April 1973 in the USA and the 14th of January 1973 for the rests of the world. ~~

Existing Germany TOP US Series viewed

I live in Germany and the current list is obviously not right. Dallas and other series in the 80s have had more viewers.

Why is the moon landing not even mentioned on this article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.159.170.142 (talk) 07:30, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Harper's Island

On its wikipedia page it mentions it had 4.05 million viewers for its finale, which would put it on the list of US shows.87.232.53.149 (talk) 18:39, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

9/11 "viewership"?

At the risk of asking a taboo/tactless question, were there any ratings numbers for 9/11 (broadcasted and/or simulcasted, by country and/or worldwide)? ▪ NeoAmsterdam_Edits 21:47, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

• I don't know if viewership numbers have ever been calculated, due to the fact so many broadcasters simulcast, and the programming lasted without interruption for so long (meaning an individual viewership number would be meaningless for the entire broadcast since viewers would have come and gone). Plus, channel switching would have been a huge issue as people shuttled between networks (I know I spent a full 4 hours at one point channel surfing without staying on one station for longer than a few minutes). A case can be made for speculating that, all told, it was the most viewed broadcast in history, but I can't imagine there being accurate numbers for such a thing. 68.146.81.123 (talk) 18:49, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

No sense

Am I alone in thinking the lists under "United States" make no sense whatsoever? Why is I Love Lucy listed as the third most watched telecast "of all time" when other shows in succeeding lists easily beat it? Why are shows such as Seinfeld's finale omitted from the '64-'08 list, and why don't some of the other listed top series finales of all time also appear? SchutteGod (talk) 20:43, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

You are not alone. I also don't understand why two lists are by number of viewers and the other one is by number of households; that makes it difficult to compare data from different lists. ElTchanggo (talk) 23:19, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

It appears that the 1964-2008 list is actually ranked by "Percent of Households", which is what the TV industry cares about, not by total number of viewers or households. That explains why Seinfeld isn't included. – Smyth\ 13:37, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Mandela's Release?

I would imagine that Mandela's release would feature somewhere, but I can't find any figures ...

Anybody else? EmjayE2 (talk) 19:34, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Canada

Canada's most viewed broadcast was the men's gold medal hockey game during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with an average audience of 16.6 million. A total of 26.5 million Canadians (approx. 80% of the population) watched some part of the game.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/03/01/oh-canada-usa-vs-canada-gold-medal-hockey-is-most-watched-broadcast-ever-in-canadian-history/43430

Looks like it might belong on this page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.65.232.248 (talk) 22:15, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Diane Sawyer

Why is Diane Sawyer listed as interviewing Micheal Jackson on 60 Minutes in 2003 when she hasn't been with that program since 1989? The entire list for the US is a mess.

Tie-Breakers

Just a note - when 2 shows have the same number of viewers, the tie-breaker seems to be that the later-aired show wins, but in this case:

44 NYPD Blue 16.1 10.4% 17% 1 March 2005 ABC 45 Miami Vice 16.1 11.0% 21% 28 June 1989 NBC

I would argue that Miami Vice was a more-watched show since 11% of households watched it. I will concede (reluctantly) if the truncations have full data behind them and NYPD Blue actually had, say 16,199,999 viewers.

MathWiz 22:58, 25 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.139.220.2 (talk)

Vandalism: Michael Jackson interviews

I don't have the time to fix it, but I noticed that on April 12 user 68.43.212.160 added some bogus data about Michael Jackson interviews. I'm not sure either of these interviews ever happened, and they certainly didn't have the number of viewers that are claimed. Somebody should fix it and restore the two shows that got bumped off of the list. The user's contributions page shows a history of making up stuff about Michael Jackson. Smith.dan (talk) 13:31, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Something is amiss....according to the stats for the 60 minute interview there were 9 million FEWER household's on 2003 vs 1983.... obviously an error 209.121.225.249 (talk) 04:03, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Series Finale

I'm pretty sure that the first season finale of Glee was not a series finale:

173.57.117.239 (talk) 04:56, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

'til death

Should we add 'til death to the list since it had 4 seasons???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.98.40.217 (talk) 19:07, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Numbers in the World section

Although all events mentioned in the World section got sources, most off them have completely unrealistic numbers since the sources are based on rough estimations and rumors. When you think about it for a second it´s obvious that a number like "3 Billion people watche M. Jackson´s funeral" sounds amazing, but I hardly doubt that every 2nd person on the world watched it.

I think this section should be removed or at least cleaned up until there are reliable sources availible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.227.137.211 (talk) 00:11, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

United Kingdom figures

I have tidied up the UK section with data from the only reliable sources on this matter, the BFI (http://www.bfi.org.uk/) and BARB (http://www.barb.co.uk/). Some of the existing entries were either spurious or backed up with sloppy journalism. Others (entries below 20 million) were not significant and should not have been included. If anyone wants to venture below 21 million to extend the list be my guest.--Stevouk (talk) 22:39, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

O.J. Simpson murder case (CNN)

What is the 39.21 million households for the OJ Simpson murder case on CNN supposed to represent, there is NO WAY that 39.21 million watched any broadcast on CNN, that would equal almost the total amount of households which had CNN at the time (1994), the highest audience ever for a CNN program was the Perot-Gore NAFTA Debate which averaged around 11.17 million households. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.98.40.217 (talk) 21:10, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Germany - Top 9 primetime telecasts of all time

The number 1 in the list "Germany - Top 9 primetime telecasts of all time", i.e.

2010 Superbowl 44 New Orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts 156.3 million1 93.7% 02010-02-06 6 February 2010 CBS

clearly is nonsense: CBS doesn't broadcast in Germany, and Germany doesn't even have a population of 156.3 Million (the population is around 82-83 Million), and very few of them are interested in (American) Football. So, maybe, this line belongs somewhere in the United States section, but certainly not here.

Also, in the same section, there's a footnote number 4 , which is not referenced above at all.

77.4.204.177 (talk) 17:07, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

6.2 & 6.4 Most-Watched Special Events

The same Table, title, data, etc.... That must be a mistake, right? Salvidrim (talk) 17:54, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

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