Sports, led by college football, take the top five spots on Inscape’s ranking of most-watched TV programs for August 26 through September 1.

NFL preseason games captured a 2.48% viewership share across Aug. 12-18, per Inscape.

Weekend coverage on Fox News drove watch-time increases for many of its top programs (especially those typically airing during weekdays only).

Sports dominated Inscape’s program ranking for June 3-9, taking all five of the top chart positions.

The NBA playoffs continue to hold court atop Inscape’s ranking, while college softball and baseball made inroads week-over-week.

NBA playoff games captured a 5.02% viewership share for May 6-12, per Inscape.

PGA, MLB, Stanley Cup Playoff and NASCAR also make Inscape’s ranking for April 15-21.

Men’s college basketball grew its TV viewership share week-over-week, while The Players propelled PGA into second place, per Inscape.

Men’s college basketball and the NBA again lead Inscape’s weekly ranking of most-watched TV programming, while the Oscars placed fourth.

Men’s college basketball games captured a 2.07% viewership share for Feb. 12-18, per Inscape.

NFL remains in first place week-over-week as the preseason continues, but saw a slight decrease in watch-time, per Inscape.

Games captured 1.17% of all live, linear minutes watched last week, per Inscape.

The men’s college world series led in watch-time last week with MLB a close second, per Inscape.

Six of the top ten most-watched programs on TV were sports-related, per Inscape data.

Meanwhile — and to no one’s surprise — sports continue to dominate much of last week’s live TV viewership, per Inscape.

The 2023 Masters Tournament and related coverage scored over 4% of all watch-time during the week of April 3-9, placing it solidly in first place for the program ranking, per data from Inscape.

This year’s Masters had the most linear minutes watched for Thursday to Sunday, according to Inscape, along with a higher share of Sunday watch-time vs. last year