BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns continued to dominate the holiday airwaves, although after a rerun CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE at 0.42, ABC ran the new special THE YEAR: 2021 at 0.36. CBS:  Reruns at 0.36/0.31/0.26/0.24. NBC:  After a run of the movie TROLLS at 0.29, a rerun of THAT’S MY JAM at 0.25. FOX:  Reruns […]

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 52: December 20-26, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday December 20 through Sunday December 26, 2021. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS returned from a week off and gained 0.04 to 0.43.  It was followed by reruns at 0.40/0.25/0.15. CBS:  60 MINUTES had the late national NFL game as lead-in, and compared to the last time it had that advantage on December 12 it was up 0.05 to 1.43.  […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  FOX’s NFL game (shared with NFLNetwork, whose ratings are below) owned Christmas Day at 7.74.  That compared to 3.15 for last year’s broadcast game.  FOX aired PBC BOXING in primetime at 0.66.  ABC’s tripleheader of NBA games was at 1.52/1.64/1.57 compared to 1.82 for last year’s broadcast game.  The other networks aired […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Holiday reruns at 0.40/0.39/0.38/0.45/0.31. CBS:  More holiday reruns at 0.27/0.28/0.24. NBC:  The yearly run of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE was at 0.61, down 0.15 from 2020 but enough to win the night. FOX:  The only original show on broadcast TV was WWE SMACKDOWN, down 0.04 to 0.48. CW:  A rerun at […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Only one network featured original programming on the night before Christmas Eve.  On ABC, the reruns were at 0.46/0.30/0.23. CBS:  A YOUNG SHELDON rerun at 0.31 was followed by a marathon of GHOSTS reruns at 0.26/0.22/0.20/0.20/0.20. NBC:  Reruns at 0.23/0.16/0.15/0.14/0.15. FOX:  The night’s one original show was a special FANTASY ISLAND […]

  A few notes:  this week’s newcomers opened along a range of dates, including Tuesday night, Wednesday, Friday night and Saturday, and those scheduling decisions had an affect on the totals below.  Also, the fact that Friday was Christmas Eve lowered the day’s ticket sales, probably by 30% or so.  (Something similar will apply to […]