With fall upon us, a whole summer of broadcast television has come to a close. Courtesy of TV insight company Inscape, a Vizio subsidiary, the most-watched game shows from January 1st to May 31st have been revealed. Their data doesn’t just include new series but also rerun episodes during the day. Here’s a countdown of those top three shows, including the biggest move in game show watch time from their dataset.

Leading anime platform Crunchyroll has launched a new 24/7 channel fully dedicated to the booming artform of anime. The channel is now available on LG Channels, The Roku Channel and VIZIO WatchFree+, coming to Amazon Freevee on October 17.

The founding members of the ISA, including Allen Media Group, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Cineverse, Future Today, kweliTV, Revry, The E.W. Scripps Company, Tastemade, and TMB (Trusted Media Brands), are committed to driving innovation and addressing the challenges faced independent streaming providers. Through initiatives like the measurement study, the ISA aims to provide a platform for knowledge sharing and industry collaboration.

The ISA is an industry forum comprised of 10 independent streaming service providers focused on working collaboratively with various external stakeholders, including platforms, advertisers, regulators, and other industry participants. One of the goals of the ISA is to address the key challenges facing its members and the broader CTV industry.

Crunchyroll and GSN announced a new 24/7 FAST channel for anime. The channel has launched on LG Channels, The Roku Channel and Vizio WatchFree+, and drops on Amazon Freevee on October 17. “The Crunchyroll channel is a gateway to the world of anime where we will guide viewers to discover new worlds, new stories and new characters,” said Rahul Purini, President of Crunchyroll.

Available for free, exclusively on WatchFree+, viewers can enjoy some of the most iconic love stories in entertainment with Ben & Jen: Never Say Never; Tim McGraw & Faith Hill: Country Lovin; and just released this year, Weird Al: Never Off Beat. Also, newly added blockbusters Ben Is Back with Julia Roberts and St. Vincent with Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy are available free on WatchFree+.

WatchFree+ TV is VIZIO’s free streaming service that offers hundreds of channels and thousands of titles on-demand, including films, television series, and news coverage. The platform includes a bit of every genre, such as crime, reality TV, sports, family-friendly entertainment, and music.

VIZIO (NYSE: VZIO) is now streaming over 70 new titles never before seen on WatchFree+, including exclusive TV series premieres, movies, and stunts. Fall Premieres offers hundreds of hours of free entertainment featuring icons and the characters viewers know and love, like Gordon Ramsay, ParaNorman, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill.

Vizio said it has added more than 70 new titles for the fall season to its WatchFree Plus streaming platform.

The group’s founding members are Allen Media Group, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Cineverse, Future Today, kweliTV, Revry, The E.W. Scripps Company, Tastemade, TMB (Trusted Media Brands) and Vevo.

The Crunchyroll channel is available now via LG Channels (available on LG Smart TVs), The Roku Channel and VIZIO WatchFree+ – and will launch on Amazon Freevee on October 17th.

Other diverse-owned media companies have seen similar trends. Revry, an LGBTQ+-owned and targeted connected TV programmer, doubled its ad revenue from the second quarter of 2022 to the second quarter of 2023.

Crunchyroll on Wednesday launched a free channel running a selection of popular anime 24/7 to popular platforms Amazon Freevee, The Roku Channel, LG Channels and VIZIO WatchFree+. The channel will run English-dubbed episodes of Horimiya, Ranking of Kings, Moriarty the Patriot, PSYCHO–PASS, Sugar Apple Fairytale, To Your Eternity and Code Geass.

The anime-based channel, which is a collaboration between Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Crunchyroll and GSN, will be available across FAST TV, with Amazon Freevee, LG Channels, The Roku Channel and Vizio WatchFree+ being the first to carry the channel. The network will launch on Oct. 11 on LG Channels, The Roku Channel and Vizio WatchFree+, with beginning to carry the channel on Oct. 17.

Crunchyroll announced that it is collaborating with Sony Pictures Entertainment's GSN (Game Show Network) to launch a new 24/7 linear channel on Amazon Freevee, LG Channels, the Roku Channel, and VIZIO WatchFree+ first on Wednesday.

Crunchyroll and GSN have teamed up to launch a new Crunchyroll free ad-supported streaming television channel that will promote anime 24 hours a day.

Crunchyroll is launching a 24/7 linear channel, featuring a range of programming from its anime library. The channel will launch on a number of free, ad supported streaming platforms (FAST platforms), including Roku Channel, Amazon Freevee, LG Channels, and Vizio WatchFree+.

The first services to carry Crunchyroll’s free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel are LG Channels, the Roku Channel and Vizio WatchFree+, launching on Oct. 11. Amazon’s Freevee is slated to launch the channel on Oct. 17. The channel is a joint collaboration between Crunchyroll and corporate cousin Game Show Network (GSN), which is part of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Key elements of the campaign included prominent placements on the VIZIO Home Screen, video spots distributed through CTV ad inventory, and the ability to retarget select households on various devices such as mobile phones, tablets, and laptops. This comprehensive approach harnessed the full potential of VIZIO’s ecosystem of hardware, software, and data across the smart TV experience.’

Welcome to our weekly snapshot of TV by the numbers, highlighting the most-watched shows and networks for October 2-8, with insights from Inscape, the currency-grade smart TV ACR data provider and data technology division of Vizio. Data is linear, live TV only and includes all episode types (new and reruns). Rankings are by percent share duration (i.e., time spent watching).