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

Recent Examples on the Web

Ready, aim, target The upfronts were once the place where networks promoted their dominance in the ratings, especially in the 18-to-49 demographic that was long the sweet spot for advertisers. —Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024

Developed as the third installment into the franchise, RHOA quickly became the most popular and for years dominated in the ratings. —Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024

To curate the the best brunches in the U.S., Yelp took into account breakfast and brunch restaurants that had the most mentions of brunch and factors like the ratings and total volume during the last three years. —Bahar Anooshahr, The Arizona Republic, 14 May 2024

La Casa de Los Famosos, a version of Celebrity Big Brother, has fueled the ratings surge and will return for a fifth season in 2024-25 along with fellow reality veterans Los 50, Top Chef VIP and Exaltón Estados Unidos. —Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2024

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. —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