\n\tAs is usually the case, the final night of the year was also one of the biggest TV viewing nights of 2025 \u2014\u00a0and also per usual, the largest share of that viewing came on ABC.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe network\u2019s annual Dick Clark\u2019s New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve<\/a> special averaged 18.8 million viewers in the 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET hour on Dec. 31\/Jan. 1, according to early Nielsen ratings (which don\u2019t include the measurement service\u2019s big data component). That\u2019s a four-year high and a 5 percent improvement on the previous year\u2019s average<\/a> of 17.92 million, pending updates. ABC estimates that 30 million people were tuned to the network at midnight ET, and the full night of festivities had some 34 million people watching at least a few minutes of New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve (the latter figure doesn\u2019t include out of home viewing).<\/p>\n \n\tThe 18.8 million viewers for ABC made up a large majority of viewers in the hour surrounding the start of the year on the East Coast. New Year\u2019s Eve Live drew 5.3 million viewers on CBS from 11:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., while specials on CNN and NBC came in behind that. Hourly totals for the latter two weren\u2019t available at publication time, but CNN averaged 2.6 million viewers from 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m. for its New Year\u2019s Eve special hosted Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. NBC had 2.13 million viewers from 10:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. for A Toast to 2025; both shows likely came in significantly higher in their final hours.<\/p>\n \n\tABC also dominated primetime \u2014 drawing 7.03 million viewers from 8-10 p.m. and 10.59 million from 10:30-11:30 p.m. \u2014 and the late-late night segment (8.25 million from 12:30-2 a.m.), based on the early Nielsen figures. All four parts of New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve grew year to year, with the 12:30 a.m. portion scoring an 85 percent gain. <\/p>\n \n\tCBS averaged 3.9 million viewers from 8-10 p.m. and 4.88 million from 10:30-11:30; the network\u2019s primetime and late-night segments all declined year to year. CNN\u2019s full night improved by 38 percent from 2024. NBC sat out the late night New Year\u2019s Eve game last year.<\/p>\n \n\tFinal ratings for New Year\u2019s Eve programming will be added to this story as they become available.<\/p>\n \n\tNew Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 Eve is produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corporation,\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s\u00a0parent company, in a subsidiary joint venture between Penske Media and Eldridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As is usually the case, the final night of the year was also one of the biggest TV…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[190633,171,10146,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-488895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dick-clarku2019s-new-yearu2019s-rockinu2019-eve","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tv-ratings","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115829936219832805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}