NBC’s coverage was even more dominant on Night 2 of the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, with a 1.1 rating that more than doubled the 0.5s at ABC and CBS. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, […]

  THE BACHELORETTE had an easy win. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow […]

  ABC:  On a finale night, the season finale of THE CONNERS was at 0.45 (up 0.05 from last week and up 0.03 from last year’s finale), the series finale of THE GOLDBERGS was steady with last week at 0.30, the season finale of NOT DEAD YET was at 0.24/0.18 compared to last week’s 0.26, […]

  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER will continue parsing out its precious nuggets of mother-related information for one more season.  CBS very badly wanted the show back, especially with 2 Broke Girls not proving to be the Monday blockbuster the network had hoped, and deals have been made with 20th Century Fox Television (which owns […]

>Fast national ratings for ABC Monday (Dancing with the Stars, You Deserve It and Castle) will be very inflated Tuesday morning.  Two ABC stations (WCVB-Boston and KMBC-Kansas City) will carry the ESPN Monday Night Football game between the Chiefs and the Patriots locally over-the-air.  The two markets represent a combined 2.9% of TV households (Boston […]

  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL coverage took up 4 of the Top 5 slots on Saturday cable, with telecasts ranging from 0.49 for the late afternoon game to 1.07 to the one that preceded it, while smaller-market […]

  There haven’t been a lot of Wednesday openings this summer, and even fewer that are relevant to the start of THE SMURFS 2 (Sony), which began with $5.2M yesterday.  This Is The End ($7.8M) was aimed at a completely different audience, while the colossal $35M start for Despicable Me 2 was part of a […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  CW’s Monday ratings were apparently swollen by preemption in Houston for the local simulcast of the night’s NFL game.  As a result, in adjusted numbers, THE ORIGINALS lost 0.1, and JANE THE VIRGIN dropped 0.2, leaving that show not up but down from last week’s premiere–although at 0.5 it’s still retaining most of […]