It’s not really news here for US viewing demographics for regular TV, but CBS continues to be the oldest media viewing age thanks also to “60 Minutes,” which I figure has likely retained perhaps 50% of its audience for 50 years now.
Note that the three largest “cable news” channels skew even older than CBS, which explains a whole lot for the sake of what has been passing for “news” since about 2001.
The median age for a network primetime viewer long has been above 50 — this year, it comes in at 64.6 for the five English-language broadcast networks. Cable is much the same, with such networks as Bravo skewing a little younger (its median viewer age is 56), while the Big Three news channels’ average viewer is about 69.
Only one English-language show that aired on a broadcast network this season — Bob’s Burgers on Fox — had a median age (where half a show’s viewers were younger and half older) below 50, and not by much: The animated series’ median viewer age was 49.5. (All numbers in this story are through May 19, three days before the end of the September-to-May TV season.)
Here are the table data copied from the article, in which they are displayed in a better format at the bottom.
Oldest and Youngest Shows by Network
Table with 4 columns and 5 rows.
|Network| Median Age of Viewer — **Oldest Show
Primetime Median Viewer Age
Median Age of Viewer – Youngest Show **
| — | — | — | — |
|ABC| 71.6 — Jeopardy! Masters
65.60
57.1 — NBA Primetime
|CBS| 73 — Blue Bloods
67.80
58.7 — Big Brother
|Fox| 65.7 — Alert: Missing Persons Unit
58.10
49.5 — Bob’s Burgers
|NBC| 71 — Magnum P.I.
64.90
55.2 — Sunday Night Football
|CW| 71.5 — The Spencer Sisters
65.20
53.8 — All AmericanSOURCE: NIELSEN, 2023-24 SEASON THROUGH MAY 19.