Here's a place to track whatever ratings and viewership information
is available for Power Rangers on Nickelodeon.
Ratings info derived from Son of the Bronx and ShowBuzz Daily.
DEFINITIONS
RATING: Pct. of all households. SHARE: Pct. of households using TV
KIDS 6-11: One ratings point represents 247,600 viewers in that age group.
POWER RANGERS SUPER NINJA STEEL Premiere weekends (Total viewers - in millions) (Number in red is series high)
(Number in grey-shaded box is Saturday series low) |
Saturday Noon premiere | Sunday 8 a.m. encore |
Episode 1 - "Echoes of Evil" |
Jan. 27, 2018 - 1.019 | Jan. 28 - 0.732 |
Episode 2 - "Moment of Truth" |
Feb. 3 - 1.147 | Feb. 4 - 0.653 |
Episode 3 - "Tough Love" |
Feb. 10 - 0.983 | Feb. 11 - 0.642 |
Episode 4 - "Making Waves" |
Feb. 17 - 0.967 | Feb. 18 - 0.694 |
Episode 5 - "Game Plan" |
Feb. 24 - 1.001 | Feb. 25 - 0.613 |
Episode 6 - "Attack of the Galactic Ninjas" |
March 3 - 1.150 | March 6 - N/A |
Episode 7 - "The Need for Speed" |
March 10 - 1.235 | March 11 - N/A |
Episode 8 - "Caught Red-Handed" |
March 17 - 1.033 | March 18 - N/A |
SUMMER HIATUS |
Episode 9 - "Outfoxed" |
Aug. 25 - 1.239 | Aug. 26 - N/A |
Episode 10 - "Dimensions in Danger" (25th anniv.) |
Tuesday, Aug. 28, 8 p.m. - 0.859 | Sep. 2 - 0.534 |
Episode 11 - "Love Stings" |
Sep. 1 - 0.876 | Sep. 2 - 0.504 |
Episode 12 - "Fan Frenzy" |
Sep. 8 - 0.907 | Sep. 9 - 0.584 |
Episode 13 - "Prepare to Fail" |
Sep. 15 - 1.171 | Sep. 16 - 0.481 |
Episode 14 - "Sheriff Skyfire" |
Sep. 22 - 0.980 | Sep. 23 - 0.499 |
Episode 15 - "Tech Support" |
Sep. 29 - 0.818 | Sep. 30 - 0.462 |
Episode 16 - "Car Trouble" |
Oct. 6 - 0.746 | Oct. 7 - 0.537 |
Episode 17 - "Happy to be Me" |
Oct. 13 - 0.857 | Oct. 14 - 0.572 |
Episode 21 - "Monster Mix-Up" (Halloween ep) |
Oct. 20 - 0.825 | Oct. 21 - 0.535 |
Episode 18 - "Magic Misfire" |
Oct. 27 - 1.044 | Oct. 28 - 0.535 |
Episode 19 - "Doom Signal" |
Nov. 3 - 0.894 | Nov. 4 - 0.724 |
Episode 20 - "Reaching the Nexus" |
Nov. 10 - 0.894 | Nov. 11 - 0.681 |
Saturday averages | Sunday averages |
SNS only: 985,000 | SNS only: 587,000 |
SNS pre-hiatus: 1.073 million SNS post-hiatus: 932,000 | SNS pre-hiatus: 667,000 SNS post-hiatus: 554,000 |
All of Ninja Steel: 1.085 mil | All of Ninja Steel: 681,000 |
(Updated: 11/15/2018) Welcome to my dusty, ol' fansite! Well, look at that. I've seen other examples of identical viewership numbers for consecutive episodes when looking at numbers for other shows but this is a rarity, if not a first, for Power Rangers. That Bottom Ten list (in the time PR has been on Nick) further down on this page now has nine entries from the post-hiatus portion of Super Ninja Steel.
The erosion chart shows, once again, how the summer hiatus is a major detriment in viewership retention. I've never understood how you can take a five-month break IN THE MIDDLE OF A SEASON and expect people to come back. For most shows, a summer break is common because these shows' seasons END in the spring and the new one starts in the fall. Breaks in between seasons is one thing, in the middle is continuing to prove almost toxic to PR.
Here's the 10 most-watched and 10 least-watched new episodes since PR moved to Nick. Sadly, four of the eight PRSNS episodes are already on the right-hand side of this chart and five more are from Ninja Steel:
MOST- AND LEAST-VIEWED NEW EPISODES ON NICKELODEON (Total viewers - in millions) |
| TOP TEN | BOTTOM TEN |
| May 14, 2011 Samurai - ep 13 "The Blue & the Gold" 3.718 | Oct. 6, 2018 Super Ninja Steel - ep 16 "Car Trouble" 0.746 |
| June 4, 2011 Samurai - ep 16 "Boxed In" 3.275 | Sept. 29, 2018 Super Ninja Steel - ep 15 "Tech Support" 0.818 |
| April 30, 2011 Samurai - ep 11 "Unexpected Arrival" 3.184 | Oct. 20, 2018 Super Ninja Steel - ep 21 "Monster Mash-Up" 0.825 |
| May 21, 2011 Samurai - ep 14 "Team Spirit" 3.151 | Oct. 13, 2018 Super Ninja Steel - ep 17 "Happy to be Me" 0.857 |
| May 28, 2011 Samurai - ep 15 "The Tengen Gate" 3.123 | Aug. 28, 2018 (8 pm) Super Ninja Steel - ep 10 "Dimensions in Danger" 0.859 |
| Feb. 13, 2011 Samurai - ep 2 "Deal With a Nighlok" 3.115 | Sept. 1, 2018 Super Ninja Steel - ep 11 "Love Stings" 0.876 |
| March 6, 2011 Samurai - ep 5 "A Fish Out of Water" 2.986 | Nov. 3, 2018 Super Ninja Steel - ep 19 "Doom Signal" 0.894 |
| May 7, 2011 Samurai - ep 12 "Room For One More" 2.919 | Nov. 10, 2018 Super Ninja Steel - ep 20 "Reaching the Nexus" 0.894 |
| Feb. 20, 2011 Samurai - ep 3 "Day Off" 2.890 | Sept. 8, 2018 Super Ninja Steel - ep 12 "Fan Frenzy" 0.907 |
| Feb. 27, 2011 Samurai - ep 4 "Sticks and Stones" 2.859 | Sept. 9, 2017 Ninja Steel - ep 13 "Ace and the Race" 0.942 |
I've added the premieres-only audience averages here so I don't have to keep refiguring them. These show how toxic the massive summer hiatus has been each year to viewership. Look at how the average drops each time the new episodes resume in the fall. (Percentage of each year's erosion in red)
PR ON NICK
(Total viewership averages for new episodes)
Feb-Jun 2011 (PRS-1): 2.936 million viewers
Oct-Dec 2011 (PRS-2): 2.159 million (-26.5%)
Feb-May 2012 (PRSS-1): 2.034 million viewers
Oct-Dec 2012 (PRSS-2): 1.675 million (-17.6%)
Feb-Apr 2013 (PRM-1): 1.690 million viewers
Sep-Dec 2013 (PRM-2): 1.445 million (-14.5%)
Feb-Apr 2014 (PRSM-1): 1.867 million viewers
Sep-Nov 2014 (PRSM-2): 1.474 million (-21.0%)
Feb-Apr 2015 (PRDC-1): 1.650 million viewers
Aug-Dec 2015 (PRDC-2): 1.282 million (-22.3%)
Feb-Mar 2016 (PRDSC-1): 1.365 million viewers
Aug-Dec 2016 (PRDSC-2): 1.414 million (+3.6%!!!!)
Jan-Mar 2017 (PRNjSt-1): 1.365 million viewers
Aug-Dec 2017 (PRNjSt-2): 1.073 million (-21.4%)
Jan-Mar 2018 (PRSNS-1): 1.073 million viewers
Aug-Dec 2018 (PRSNS-2): 932,000 (-13.1%)
SEASON-BY-SEASON VIEWERSHIP ON NICK STATS (2 eps of PRSS not available) |
Year | Season | Eps | Total viewers | Average |
2011 | Samurai | 23 | 62.083 million | 2,699,261 |
2012 | Super Samurai | 20 | 37.454 million | 1,872,700 |
2013 | Megaforce | 22 | 34.000 million | 1,545,455 |
2014 | Super Megaforce | 20 | 32.622 million | 1,631,100 |
2015 | Dino Charge | 22 | 30.977 million | 1,408,045 |
2016 | Dino Super Charge | 22 | 30.713 million | 1,396,045 |
2017 | Ninja Steel | 22 | 25.943 million | 1,179,227 |
2018 | Super Ninja Steel | 21 | 20.695 million | 985,476 |
GRAND TOTAL | 172 | 274.487 million | 1,595,855 |
Here is the archive of previous series and ratings info. For reference's sake, if nothing else:
VORTEXX ON CW
(PRLG average: 0.67 rating / 3.67 share)
ABC KIDS
(PRWF average: 1.38 rating / 6.46 share)
(PRNS average: 1.42 / 6.86)
(PRDT average: 0.93 / 4.78)
(PRSPD average: 0.99 / 4.89)
(PRMF average: 0.96 / 4.64)
(PROO average: 0.70 / 3.55)
(PRJF average: 0.60 / 3.07)
(PRRPM average: 0.53 / 2.82)
(MMv2 average: 0.47 / 2.26)
NICKELODEON (Saturdays)
(PRSS average: 2.33 / 11.50)
(PRS average: 3.10 / 14.46)
TOON DISNEY (Saturday mornings)
(PRMF average: 0.45 / 1.81)
(PROO average: 0.54 / 2.42)
(PRJF average: 0.56 / 2.97)
ABC FAMILY (Saturday mornings)
(PRWF average: 0.95 rating / 4.67 share)
(PRNS average: 1.17 rating / 5.86 share)
(PRDT average: 1.05 of 11 reported)
(PRSPD average: 0.71 rating / 3.33 share)
(SPD new eps only: 0.75 / 3.50)
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