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In the heyday of DVRs \u2014\u00a0way back in the olden times, the early and mid-2010s \u2014 it was common for some shows at the top of the charts to add 5 million viewers or more to their initial totals over the course of a week via people\u2019s TiVos or cable-box DVRs.<\/p>\n
That \u2026\u00a0is no longer the case. TiVo stopped selling set-top boxes in October, and in the 2024-25 season, only a handful of network series added as many as 2 million viewers via DVR playback in seven days. Cable and satellite systems and other multi-channel providers like YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV still let users record and shows to watch later, but as with most things related to linear TV, it\u2019s a declining part of the ecosystem.<\/p>\n
More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n However (and maybe read that as if it has an exclamation point after it), that doesn\u2019t mean people have just stopped watching shows after they air. People\u2019s viewing habits have just shifted more to streaming, as chronicled many<\/a>, many<\/a> times here.<\/p>\n The latest set of seven-day, multiplatform network ratings from Nielsen show that delayed viewing is far from dead. In fact, the top 19 entertainment series on broadcast networks this season add an average of about 3.85 million viewers after their first airings through streaming and DVRs. Detailed linear vs. streaming breakdowns for the table below weren\u2019t available, but previous data<\/a> suggests streaming accounts for about half of that total. (CBS\u2019 60 Minutes<\/em> also ranks among the top 20 non-sports shows, but as a news program the overwhelming majority of its audience watches when it\u2019s on air.)<\/p>\n Four shows in the top 20 \u2014\u00a0ABC\u2019s High Potential<\/em> and 911: Nashville<\/em> and CBS\u2019 Matlock<\/em> and Elsbeth<\/em> \u2014\u00a0more than double their first-night audiences over a week. Aside from 60 Minutes<\/em>, every other show in the top 20 grows by at least 42 percent, with most well above 60 percent.<\/p>\n What\u2019s always been true in the 20-odd years Nielsen has tracked delayed viewing is that it\u2019s largely a rich-get-richer scenario. All shows grow with streaming and DVR playback, but the series at the top of the seven-day rankings usually start off in fairly good shape as well. In other words, if Tracker\u2019<\/em>s same-day viewership were 3 million instead of more than 8 million, it\u2019s unlikely 6 million more viewers would be watching it in the week after.<\/p>\n The same-day to seven-day multiplatform changes for the top 20 non-sports broadcast shows (as of Nov. 9) are below.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the heyday of DVRs \u2014\u00a0way back in the olden times, the early and mid-2010s \u2014 it was common for some shows at the top of the charts to add 5 million viewers or more to their initial totals over the course of a week via people\u2019s TiVos or cable-box DVRs. That \u2026\u00a0is no longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2171517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[362975],"class_list":["post-2171516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-youtube-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Fall-2025s-Delayed-Viewing-Champions.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171518,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171516\/revisions\/2171518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}