How to Use the ratings in a Sentence

the ratings

plural noun
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  • The show reached No. 16 in the ratings in its first season.
    — Frazier Moore, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
  • And the ratings spike did not prove sustainable for the rest of the evening.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
  • And then the reviews started to fall and were great, and the ratings were great.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • Her games look good in the ratings, but so do all of the Chiefs’ games this season.
    — Francesca Paris, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • Sachs talked about the ratings fracas and much more with Rolling Stone.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The broadcast, like most awards shows, has struggled in the ratings.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Jan. 2024
  • And the ratings uptick suggests that just like Jo Koy, the Golden Globes are going to be fine.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
  • But the city would likely have to tap its rainy day fund, which would surely draw the ire of the ratings agencies.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Will a more populist best picture field boost the ratings?
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Young and Hart both noted that the ratings are just one aspect of making roads safer.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Streaming reached a new high in share of TV use in May, the ratings provider’s monthly Gauge ranking shows.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 June 2024
  • Streamers, meanwhile, see the ratings on such fluff and are hungry for more.
    — Adam Benzine, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The real boss was the ratings, the true master the quarterly earnings.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The water-cooler nature of the episode paid off in the ratings, as SNL hit some of its best numbers of recent years.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Apr. 2024
  • That’s a regular season thing where the soap opera can carry the ratings.
    — Ben Golliver, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • The shake-up comes as CNN has been trailing its cable news competitors in the ratings.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The first is that the ratings incorporate not just polling error, but polling bias.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But the ratings jump this year is good news for billionaire investor Todd Boehley, who acquired the Globes last year.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • And when the ratings are made public, what would be a fair way for people to interpret those and evaluate the success of the show?
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
  • But the ratings are subjective, and nobody is playing better than the Rebels at the moment.
    — Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But the ratings for episode five were still strong, with 11.6 million viewers from Friday through Sunday.
    — Karena Phan, ajc, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The same will be true when the ratings are significantly down for this Final Four.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The tendency of younger consumers to watch video clips online has driven down the ratings of all live awards shows in recent years.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The show was renewed at the end of January, after only a few episodes had aired, and the ratings for the show — a huge hit for HBO out of the gate — have grown throughout the season.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • In other words, the ratings view the ads through the lens of whether the commercials helped boost the brand, rather than through their popularity with viewers.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Fox News, the ratings leader in cable news, finished in second place on the night with 9.3 million viewers.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • People focus on the Oscars, and the ratings of the Oscars, but this is what’s happening to television.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But the network has settled into a distant fourth place, drawing about a fraction of the ratings for leader Fox News.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
  • While the disruption of the pandemic had played a part in the ratings fall-off, so did the presidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
    — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Humana believes the ratings cut was driven by a narrow miss on the higher industry thresholds, set by the CMS, on some measures.
    — Sriparna Roy, The Courier-Journal, 2 Oct. 2024

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