NBC’s exit from the Thursday scripted pool gave it an upgrade. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). […]
NBC got The Voice off to a good start last night, a 4.1 preliminary Adult 18-49 rating from 8-10 pm. The singing competition show started at a 3.2 in the 8:00 half hour, quickly building to a 3.9 at 8:30 and 4.6 at 9:00 before peaking at a 4.7 at 9:30. The last cycle of The Voice premiered with a […]
> Another Sunday, or as NBC likes to think of it, The Only Night That Should Count. ABC: ONCE UPON A TIME barely slipped from last week, proving its full season pick-up was well deserved. DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES continues its limp to the finish line, while the only good news for PAN AM is that CBS’s […]
Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday February 25 through Sunday March 3, 2019. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the same […]
Note: Most of the studios are pinning extremely aggressive Sunday estimates on the hope that their movie will be a popular Mothers Day destination, so look for a potentially larger than usual set of adjustments in final numbers tomorrow. OPENINGS: NEIGHBORS (Universal) is that rare Hollywood ideal of an easily-promotable, high-concept comedy that’s also […]
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 18 and Sunday April 19, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year. NBA Playoffs […]
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]
THURSDAY BROADCAST: Because this morning’s numbers were so screwed up, we’ll just start fresh with the broadcast networks. CBS: BIG BROTHER, after all the adjustments, was up 0.1 to 2.3. Even after the football effect was removed, the night’s rerun of THE BIG BANG THEORY was up half a point to a big 2.1. […]