PR Ratings Tracker - 2018

2018

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 premiereSunday 8 a.m. encore
Episode 1 - "Echoes of Evil"
Jan. 27, 2018 - 1.019Jan. 28 - 0.732
Episode 2 - "Moment of Truth"
Feb. 3 - 1.147Feb. 4 - 0.653
Episode 3 - "Tough Love"
Feb. 10 - 0.983Feb. 11 - 0.642
Episode 4 - "Making Waves"
Feb. 17 - 0.967Feb. 18 - 0.694
Episode 5 - "Game Plan"
Feb. 24 - 1.001Feb. 25 - 0.613
Episode 6 - "Attack of the Galactic Ninjas"
March 3 - 1.150March 6 - N/A
Episode 7 - "The Need for Speed"
March 10 - 1.235March 11 - N/A
Episode 8 - "Caught Red-Handed"
March 17 - 1.033March 18 - N/A
SUMMER HIATUS
Episode 9 - "Outfoxed"
Aug. 25 - 1.239Aug. 26 - N/A
Episode 10 - "Dimensions in Danger" (25th anniv.)
Tuesday, Aug. 28, 8 p.m. - 0.859Sep. 2 - 0.534
Episode 11 - "Love Stings"
Sep. 1 - 0.876Sep. 2 - 0.504
Episode 12 - "Fan Frenzy"
Sep. 8 - 0.907Sep. 9 - 0.584
Episode 13 - "Prepare to Fail"
Sep. 15 - 1.171Sep. 16 - 0.481
Episode 14 - "Sheriff Skyfire"
Sep. 22 - 0.980Sep. 23 - 0.499
Episode 15 - "Tech Support"
Sep. 29 - 0.818Sep. 30 - 0.462
Episode 16 - "Car Trouble"
Oct. 6 - 0.746Oct. 7 - 0.537
Episode 17 - "Happy to be Me"
Oct. 13 - 0.857Oct. 14 - 0.572
Episode 21 - "Monster Mix-Up" (Halloween ep)
Oct. 20 - 0.825Oct. 21 - 0.535
Episode 18 - "Magic Misfire"
Oct. 27 - 1.044Oct. 28 - 0.535
Episode 19 - "Doom Signal"
Nov. 3 - 0.894Nov. 4 - 0.724
Episode 20 - "Reaching the Nexus"
Nov. 10 - 0.894Nov. 11 - 0.681
Saturday averagesSunday averages
SNS only: 985,000SNS 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 milAll 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 TENBOTTOM 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)
YearSeasonEpsTotal viewersAverage
2011Samurai2362.083 million2,699,261
2012Super Samurai2037.454 million1,872,700
2013Megaforce2234.000 million1,545,455
2014Super Megaforce2032.622 million1,631,100
2015Dino Charge2230.977 million1,408,045
2016Dino Super Charge2230.713 million1,396,045
2017Ninja Steel2225.943 million1,179,227
2018Super Ninja Steel2120.695 million985,476
GRAND TOTAL172274.487 million1,595,855

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)

PRNjSt (2017) weekly viewers
PRDSC (2016) weekly viewers
PRDC (2015) weekly viewers
PRSM (2014) weekly viewers
PRM (2013) weekly viewers
PRSS (2012) weekly ratings
PRS (2011) weekly ratings
MMPRv2 weekly ratings
PRRPM weekly ratings
PRJF weekly ratings
PROO weekly ratings
PRMF weekly ratings
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