NETWORK FINALS: 20/20, the 8:30PM MASTERS OF ILLUSION rerun and the 9PM THE BIG STAGE rerun all lost 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: ESPN’s NBA SUMMER PRO LEAGUE games led Friday cable at 0.67 for Knicks vs. New […]
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 26 and Sunday March 27, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. NBA n/a College Basketball NCAA […]
Jon Stewart is becoming positively Lorne Michaels-ian in his influence over comedy culture far beyond his own show. It was announced today, to no one’s great surprise, that his colleague and protege Stephen Colbert will take over the helm of CBS’s late-night talk show when David Letterman retires next year. (Once it was revealed […]
Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 30-October 1, 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, October […]
> Well, another disaster weekend for the Hollywood studios. $70 million in business for the top 12 films, down 17% from the same weekend last year (which was a fairly typical second weekend in December). New Year’s Eve from Garry Marshall will badly miss a forecast that was already down over 50% from the opening […]
Django Unchained (up $47 million overseas since last week) is starting to gain on Les Miserables (up $23 million overseas). Django is now only $29 million behind Les Miz in our worldwide projection. (Django leads domestically, while Les Miz holds a shrinking lead overseas). A wide variety of films has grossed over $20 million this past week. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters is up $26 […]
BROADCAST FINALS: New Year’s Day continued to be the domain of reruns on the networks. The highest-rated telecast of the day was ABC’s afternoon coverage of the CITRUS BOWL at 1.24, with the preceding ROSE PARADE at 0.93 Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl games had […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: After the special THE MAGIC MAKER at 0.18, reruns at 0.24/0.29. CBS: Reruns at 1.57 (boosted by an NFL lead-in)/0.92/0.62/0.41 NBC: The primetime NFL game was at 5.66, below the 6.1 for the primetime holiday game in 2019. FOX: The chart has been corrected with the MLS SEMIFINAL game ratings added […]