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Top rated shows in USA in 2022

Outside of sport, the Oscars and Yellowstone were big drawcards in 2022.

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Sport dominated viewing in the USA in 2022 with Super Bowl LVI at nearly 100 million viewers for NBC.

The Oscars presntation was the top rated non-sport show of 2022.

Yellowstone was the top scripted show.

Rank PROGRAM (NETWORK) VIEWERS DATE AIRED
1. Super Bowl LVI: Los Angeles Rams vs. Cincinnati (NBC) 99,659,000 2/13/2022
2. NFC Championship: LA Rams vs. San Francisco (Fox) 50,443,000 1/30/2022
3. AFC Playoff: Kansas City vs. Buffalo (CBS)      43,157,000 1/23/2022
4. NFC Playoff: San Francisco vs. Green Bay (Fox) 37,185,000 1/22/2022
5. NFL Playoff: Kansas City vs. Pittsburgh (NBC) 29,125,000 1/16/2022
6. AFC Wildcard Playoff: New England vs. Buffalo (CBS) 26,505,000 1/15/2022
7. NFL Thursday Night Special: New England vs. Minnesota (NBC) 24,899,000 11/24/2022
8. NFL Sunday Night Football: Tampa Bay vs. Dallas (NBC) 23,442,000 9/11/2022
9. College Football Championship: Georgia vs. Alabama (ESPN) 22,553,000 1/10/2022
10. Winter Olympics Sunday Prime 2 (NBC)         21,795,000 2/13/2022
11. NFL Sunday Night Football: Kansas City vs. Tampa Bay (NBC) 21,058,000 10/2/2022
12. NFL Sunday Night Football: Dallas vs. Philadelphia (NBC) 20,929,000 10/16/2022
13. NFL Thursday Night Special: Buffalo vs. LA Rams (NBC) 20,053,000 9/8/2022
14. NFL Sunday Night Football: Green Bay vs. Buffalo (NBC)      19,739,000 10/30/2022
15. NFL Sunday Night Football: Green Bay vs. Philadelphia (NBC) 19,693,000 11/27/2022
16. NFL Sunday Night Football: Chicago vs. Green Bay (NBC) 19,682,000 9/18/2022
17. NFL Sunday Night Football: Minnesota vs. Green Bay (NBC) 18,704,000 1/2/2022
18. NFL Sunday Night Football: Indianapolis vs. Dallas (NBC) 18,298,000 12/4/2022
19. NFL Sunday Night Football: Kansas City vs. LA Chargers (NBC) 18,063,000 11/20/2022
20. NFL Sunday Night Football: San Francisco vs. Denver (NBC) 17,893,000 9/25/2022
21. NFL Sunday Night Football: Tennessee vs. Kansas City (NBC) 17,875,000 11/6/2022
22. NFL Sunday Night Football: LA Chargers vs. Las Vegas (NBC) 17,867,000 1/9/2022
23. Oscars (ABC) 17,561,000 3/27/2022
24. NFL Sunday Night Football: Cincinnati vs. Baltimore (NBC) 16,003,000 10/9/2022
25. NFL Monday Night Football: Las Vegas vs. Kansas City (ESPN) 15,987,000 10/10/2022
26. NFL Sunday Night Football: LA Chargers vs. San Francisco (NBC) 15,965,000 11/13/2022
27. NFL Sunday Night Football: Pittsburgh vs. Miami (NBC) 15,621,000 10/23/2022
28. NBA Finals Game 6: Warriors vs. Celtics (ABC) 14,224,000 6/16/2022
29. NFL Football: Dallas vs. Philadelphia (ABC) 13,802,000 1/8/2022
30. NBA Finals Game 5: Warriors vs. Celtics (ABC) 13,149,000 6/13/2022
31. NFL Thursday Night Football: LA Chargers vs. Kansas City (Amazon) 13,148,000 9/15/2022
32. Yellowstone, S4E10 “Grass on the Streets and Weeds on the Rooftops” (Paramount) 13,050,000 1/2/2022
33. NFL Monday Night Football: Buffalo vs. Tennessee (ABC) 12,948,000 9/19/2022
34. NFL Monday Night Football: Washington vs. Philadelphia (ESPN) 12,901,000 11/14/2022
35. NFL Wild Card Game: Arizona vs. LA Rams (ABC) 12,859,000 1/17/2022
36. World Series Game 5: Philadelphia vs. Houston (Fox) 12,830,000 11/3/2022
37. Yellowstone, S5E1 “One Hundred Years is Nothing” (Paramount) 12,684,000 11/13/2022
38. World Series Game 6: Philadelphia vs. Houston (Fox) 12,655,000 11/5/2022
39. 60 Minutes, S54E18 “The Betrayal, Chris Stapleton” (CBS) 12,337,000 1/16/2022
40. NBA Finals Game 4: Warriors vs. Celtics (ABC) 12,248,000 6/10/2022
41. NCIS: Hawai’i, S1E12 “Spies, Part 1” (CBS) 12,247,000 1/23/2022
42. The OT (Fox) 12,170,000 9/25/2022
43. NFL Monday Night Football: LA Chargers vs. Denver (ESPN) 12,113,000 10/17/2022
44. NBA Finals Game 2: Warriors vs. Celtics (ABC) 12,009,000 6/5/2022
45. NFL Monday Night Football: Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh (ESPN) 11,914,000 1/3/2022
46. World Series Game 4: Philadelphia vs. Houston (Fox) 11,864,000 11/2/2022
47. NFL Thursday Night Football: Cincinnati vs. Miami (Amazon) 11,840,000 9/29/2022
48. Yellowstone, S5E2 “The Sting of Wisdom” (Paramount) 11,799,000 11/13/2022
49. Yellowstone, S5E4 “Horses in Heaven” (Paramount) 11,637,000 11/27/2022
50. NBA Finals Game 3: Warriors vs. Celtics (ABC) 11,624,000 6/8/2022
51. World Series Game 1: Philadelphia vs. Houston (Fox) 11,568,000 10/28/2022
52. Winter Olympics Sunday Prime 1 (NBC) 11,517,000 2/6/2022
53. NBA Finals Game 1: Warriors vs. Celtics (ABC) 11,494,000 6/2/2022
54. Winter Olympics Thursday Prime 1 (NBC) 11,473,000 2/10/2022
55. Yellowstone, S5E3 “Tall Drink of Water” (Paramount) 11,399,000 11/20/2022
56. 60 Minutes, S55E8 “Angry in America, Buses from the Border, Ready or Not” (CBS) 11,334,000 11/6/2022
57. NCIS, S19E12 “Fight or Flight” (CBS) 11,324,000 1/24/2022
58. FBI, S4E10 “Fostered” (CBS) 11,314,000 1/4/2022
59. NFL Monday Night Football: San Francisco vs. Arizona (ESPN) 11,302,000 11/21/2022
60. 60 Minutes, S55E5 “The Lost Souls of Bucha, The Power of Grimsby, Coach Prime” (CBS) 11,287,000 10/16/2022

You can read more rankings at Variety.

6 Responses

  1. Appreciate your work David however wouldn’t it be better to just take out the sports in the list because that’s a given that they’re going to rate very high & doesn’t give as much of a picture of what’s happening with other genres.

    1. The Oscars are only be there because people caught it up because of The Slap. The top NCIS ep listed had The Superbowl as a lead-in, only a couple of other episodes of drama, some FBI and a Chicago Fire made the bottom of the list. Sport is what FTA is good at now, though Amazon’s Thursday Night Football, which they poached of the networks, was first streaming show to make the list.

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