QUANTICO  made its move to Monday. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Sunday is one of the few nights without any local football preemptions, so these adjustments are to the Monday preliminary numbers.  Thanks to CBS’s PGA CHAMPIONSHIP coverage as its lead-in, 60 MINUTES retained its preliminary 1.5 rating, and BIG BROTHER rose 0.1 to 2.1.  The MADAM SECRETARY rerun, however, lost 0.1 to 0.6.  […]

    Summer network TV continues to fall behind cable. FOX:  It’s all but a foregone conclusion that everything on network TV last night was outrated by the Boston/Miami NBA Playoffs and History’s conclusion of Hatfields & McCoys.  The only show on the networks to score over a 1.5 rating in 18-49s was SO YOU […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, football adjustments pushed AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR, the NBC FALL PREVIEW special and the 9:30PM WHOSE LINE IT IS ANYWAY rerun down 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Inevitably, ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL led Monday cable at 4.12, compared […]

  There’s no question about who the boss is on Tuesdays these days. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  The primetime leader was ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game at 0.85, although it was outrated by the late-night season premiere of NBC’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE at 0.92.  Back in primetime, FOX’s MLB game was at 0.29, and the first part of CW’s IHEARTRADIO MUSIC FESTIVAL was at 0.07.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  Some small changes from this morning.  AGENTS OF SHIELD found 0.1, which helped it not at all, while THE GOLDBERGS correspondingly lost 0.1, meaning that it dropped from its last new episode.  Similarly, THE VOICE was up 0.1, but both ABOUT A BOY and GROWING UP FISHER fell 0.1.  The worrisome number […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Friday cable, up 0.04 to 0.48, with LIVE PD: WANTED steady at 0.37, and the lead-in hour up a tick to 0.22.  […]