‘The Wiz Live!’ equals ratings gold for NBC, smashes ‘Peter Pan’

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The Wiz Live!  was also a major success on social media. “Global digital marketing technology company Amobee Brand Intelligence said The Wiz Live! attracted 1.374 million tweets during its three-hour telecast window — more than four times the number generated last year during the live telecast of Peter Pan Live,” Variety reports.

NBC says based on Tweets, The Wiz Live! is the #1 most social live special program since Nielsen Social began tracking Twitter TV activity in October 2011  (Source: Nielsen, excluding award shows and political events).

279,400 people sent 1.6 million tweets about The Wiz Live! on 12/3/15 and 6.4 million people saw those Tweets a total of 128.9 million times.

Last year NBC’s Peter Pan Live received roughly 9.2 million total viewers, while 2013’s the Sound of Music scored a whopping 18.6 million total viewers.

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