College sports controlled 5 of the top 6 slots on Saturday cable, with ESPN’s COLLEGE BOWL games led by the primetime game at 1.72, with afternoon games at 0.92 and 0.63, and COLLEGE BASKETBALL on ESPN2 at 1.08 and 0.41.  (Plus another college basketball game at 0.33.)  The sports was broken up by a […]

CBS had an exit and an entrance last night, neither of them very impressive. CBS:  SURVIVOR: PHILIPPINES  debuted with 3.1, down 0.3 from last fall’s premiere (although that faced weaker competition).  That was followed by the season finale of BIG BROTHER, which was down 0.4 from the last summer finale to 2.5.  Neither of these […]

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 29: July 13-19, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  NBC’s NFL WILD CARD GAME adjusted up in final numbers to 8.8. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): ESPN’s first-ever NFL WILD CARD GAME on Saturday afternoon swamped the rest of cable at 6.95, and the network also had […]

Another step toward the end of original programming on Fridays. CBS:  MADE IN JERSEY is the worst flop of the season’s first week, a disaster at 1.1 any way the numbers are cut.  The show could only tie a repeat of the low-rated Last Resort pilot, and started out even with Fringe, TV’s poster child […]

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 31: July 27-August 2, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]

With two weeks of the new season under our belts (11 nights of official ratings and 3 nights of adjusted fast national ratings), here is how the season stands for the four major networks:   Thanks to The Voice moving into the fall this year, NBC is the only network to show growth through the first four […]

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 33: August 10-August 16, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]