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The Sked: Olympic Ratings through Night 13 and Preview of “Go On”

Posted August 9, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

A very good night on NBC last night for the final Wednesday from London, a preliminary 9.2 rating with Adults 18-49 in prime time.  The number will easily rise to a 9.5 in the official nationals, blowing away the previous high for this night in recent Summer Olympics (8.7 from Athens in 2004).  The night […]

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EARLY FRIDAY BOX OFFICE: “Transformers” Clanks, “Wonder Woman” Holds, “Big Sick” & “Beguiled” Open Well

Posted June 24, 2017 by Mitch Salem

  Its studio did everything in its corporate power to keep the quality of TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST KNIGHT (Huahua/Paramount) from infecting ticket sales, preventing any reviews from appearing until the projectors had started on the movie’s first paid screenings.  But audiences knew what was coming, and in the US, Transformers 5 will be by far […]

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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS August 24-26: Crappy Films Mark the Beginning of the 7-Week Box Office Drought

Posted August 22, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

Weekend #34 of 2012 looks like a typically bad fourth weekend of August.  Three shitty new films open and a political documentary goes semi-wide, and each should be well under $10 million for the weekend.  The top 12 films this weekend should total $89 million, about the same pace for the comparable weekend the last […]

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Broadcast News & Late Night Series: 6.15-6.21.2020

Posted June 23, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 25: June 15-21, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 7.1-2.2017

Posted July 6, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday July 1-2, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, July 2-3, […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 12.21.2014

Posted December 21, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  A huge weekend for Warner Brothers, pushes the studio back into a secure second place among the Hollywood studios. Scroll down for domestic and overseas grosses for each film individually so far in 2014. YEAR TO DATE BOX OFFICE. Looking at North American box office, 2014 is still running -6% behind last […]

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The Sked: Thursday Ratings September 6

Posted September 7, 2012 by Mitch Metcalf

A surprise Thursday night victory for NBC last night, which had less to do with America’s Got Talent and much more to do with President Obama.  NBC started the night at 8 pm with a displaced America’s Got Talent episode (which would have run Wednesday were it not for the NFL kick off game).  AGT averaged a 1.8 rating, […]

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Broadcast News & Late Night Series: 6.29-7.5.2020

Posted July 8, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 27: June 29-July 5, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]

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