BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Game 3 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS dominated the night at 1.20. CBS:  Reruns at 0.37/0.33/0.28/0.24. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR gained 0.04 to 0.38, and WEAKEST LINK was up 0.08 to 0.38. FOX:  DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS ticked down to 0.31, and BEAT SHAZAM was up 0.02 to 0.33. CW:  ROSWELL, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s telecast of the PAC-12 Championship COLLEGE FOOTBALL game was adjusted to 1.7.  In addition, 20/20 gained 0.1 in final numbers, while CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND, the I LOVE LUCY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL and DR KEN all lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 22-23, 2018.  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, September 23-24, […]

The Oscars on Sunday 2.26.2017 averaged 32.9 million live+same day, according to Nielsen, close to the 34.4 million last year but down significantly from 37.3 million in 2015 and 43.6 million in 2014.  Click here for a complete track for the past decade of Oscar telecasts. Looking at the quarter hour ratings for the telecast, 2017 had […]

> Another night of atypical FOX programming as we head to the World Series endgame(s). ABC:  The real test for the network’s new sitcoms will be next week when Glee returns, but ABC can’t be happy with the preliminary results:  the very expensive, hugely-promoted LAST MAN STANDING is a passable sub-3, while MAN UP! is […]

CBS takes a hit. CBS:  The only good news of the night was that HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER held steady at 3.4 (although the episode itself was another “running in place” half-hour, as the show continues to put off reaching its conclusion next season).  After that, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT fell 0.3 to 2.6, and […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  There was an avalanche of 0.1 drops from preliminary numbers:  CBS’s NFL PRESEASON game, ABC’s SHARK TANK rerun, WHAT WOULD YOU DO and 20/20, NBC’s reruns of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and DATELINE, and CW’s MASTERS OF ILLUSION and PENN & TELLER: FOOL US rerun all faced the same result.  The WHOSE LINE IS IT […]

  Essentially, right now you could air a reading of the US budget after The Voice and do some kind of number. NBC:  THE VOICE continued on its merry way, up 0.2 from last Tuesday’s installment to 4.3.  The first half of THE NEW NORMAL‘s season finale got the plum lead-in and rose 0.6 from […]