This chart lists the five highest-rated television programs on various networks and the number of people who watched them, for the time period shown. The data comes from Nielsen Marketing Research’s people meters.
Professionals:August 22 – August 28, 1994
CBC Full
CBC Prime Time News 156,000
Commonwealth Games 135,000
CBC Prime Time News 117,000
Commonwealth Games 117,000
Commonwealth Games 109,000
CTV
CTV Monday Movie 179,000
NYPD Blue 178,000
Hot Country Jam 129,000
CTV News 120,000
Roseanne 108,000
Global
60 Minutes 110,000
Frasier 99,000
Seinfeld 84,000
Married With Children 71,000
Grace Under Fire 66,000
Radio-Canada
Le Telejournal 120,000
Le Dimanche SP 107,000
Le Point 85,000
Mr. Bean 83,000
Des Jardins Auj. 73,000
TVA
TVA Edition 18H00 57,000
Lassie 56,000
Cinema du Dimanche 55,000
Heritiers du Reve 52,000
Claire Lamarche 52,000
ONT
BBS Friday Movie 84,000
NYPD Blue/CFPL Movie 61,000
News SA/SU 6 P.M. 44,000
Home Improvement 41,000
CTV News/CFPL News 41,000