Some facts about what people watched in 2024: A little blue dog was the biggest star in the streaming world; the most watched cable series in years took a final bow — at least in its current form; sports, specifically the NFL, proved their viability on streaming platforms; and the biggest new broadcast show is a meta-remake that stars a 76-year-old treasure.
On the other end of things, a broadcast network made it an entire year without a single show averaging even 1 million viewers, two of the three biggest cable news channels are swooning, and the wider cable universe is having tremendous problems getting eyeballs for programming that isn’t live sports.
It was a typically chaotic year in ratings terms, in other words. Here are some of the highs and lows.
Bad News First
Nobody knows anything: It was not long ago that there were multiple public sources of reliable ratings information online — at least for broadcast and cable networks…
