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.

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With outsized success has come outsized scrutiny, however, and the second half of the final season, while retaining the ratings dominance of the premiere, has attracted criticism from some fans and reviewers dismayed by recent developments. —

Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024 The natural evolution of ratings is toward supply chain detection and response—operationalizing the ratings and expanding your security operations center (SOC)’s capabilities to protect your entire vendor ecosystem. —

Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 Although the ratings impact was a tad overblown, Swift’s romance with Kelce, the Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end, got credit for boosting TV viewership for NFL games. —

Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 9 Dec. 2024 One thing all the co-hosts of The View can agree on is this: their show is crushing it in the ratings, leading all of cable news with an average audience of 4.4 million viewers in November. —

Mark Joyella, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the ratings