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[10/09/25 - 01:00 PM]
NBC Wins First Two Weeks of the New TV Season and Sees Year-to-Year Growth
Across all platforms (7-day), "Law & Order" and "SVU" amassed 6 million and 7.6 million viewers, respectively, both showing an increase over last season's premieres.

[via press release from NBC]

MEDIA ALERT

NBC WINS FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THE NEW TV SEASON AND SEES YEAR-TO-YEAR GROWTH

"Law & Order," "SVU" and #OneChicago Also See Increases on Peacock

· After coming off a summer that NBC won for the 11th consecutive time, NBC has won the first two weeks of the TV season in total viewers for both entertainment-only programming and all programming. In addition, the network won in the 18-49 demo in the latter category for both weeks as well.

· NBC has now won the first official week of the TV season for seven consecutive years in total viewers and the 14th straight time in the demo.

· NBC was the only broadcast network to grow year-over-year during week #1. Several shows have also seen year-over-year growth on Peacock.

· The premiere episodes of "Law & Order" (up 56%) and "Law & Order: SVU" (up 46%) were up year over year on Peacock had their best performance ever on the streamer.

· Across all platforms (7-day), "Law & Order" and "SVU" amassed 6 million and 7.6 million viewers, respectively, both showing an increase over last season's premieres.

· On NBC, "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: SVU" were both up in week two over week one by 2%.

· "Chicago Med" (up 21%), "Chicago Fire" (up 13%) and "Chicago P.D." (up 11%) were year over year in their respective season premieres on Peacock.

· "Sunday Night Football" was the #1 show of the first week and the network delivered five of the top 10 shows.

· In entertainment-only programs, NBC had four of the top six shows - "The Voice" (Monday and Tuesday telecasts) and "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday and Wednesday telecasts).

· For its first two episodes (Sept. 30 and Oct. 3), "On Brand with Jimmy Fallon" reached more than 5.5 million viewers across NBC and Peacock.

· On Peacock, the new season of "The Voice" is up over last season's average.





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· AMERICA'S GOT TALENT (NBC)
· CHICAGO FIRE (NBC)
· CHICAGO MED (NBC)
· CHICAGO PD (NBC)
· LAW & ORDER (NBC)
· LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT (NBC)
· ON BRAND WITH JIMMY FALLON (NBC)
· SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL (NBC)
· VOICE, THE (NBC)





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