Overview
- The 11:30 p.m.–12:30 a.m. ET hour averaged 18.8 million viewers, a four-year high in early Nielsen results.
- Viewership at midnight rose about 35% from last year to an estimated 30 million viewers.
- Roughly 34 million people tuned in across the night, with out-of-home viewing still to be incorporated in final ratings.
- ABC’s special was the top entertainment telecast on New Year’s Eve, outdrawing CBS’s Nashville show and CNN’s coverage.
- The broadcast ran nearly eight hours with live segments from New York, Las Vegas, Chicago and Puerto Rico, alongside an iHeartRadio simulcast reaching about 2 million listeners, up 9% year over year.