The night belonged to country music.   CBS:  With virtually no competition on any other network, the ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS romped to a 4.3, easily winning the night and up from 3.1 last year.  However, without last week’s NCAA overrun bump, 60 MINUTES was down 1.1 from last week to 1.4. NBC:  […]

  The NFL PLAYOFFS dominated. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

  Note:  STAND UP FOR CANCER, which aired on all broadcast networks except CW, had no commercials, so Nielsen won’t include it in final numbers.  NBC outrated the rest in preliminaries, with 0.4 to otherwise identical 0.3s. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Christmas Eve was a night of reruns, although in the afternoon FOX had a big 7.23 rating for the NFL.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NFL Network’s primetime game dominated cable at 3.15.  ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl game was at 0.25.  Meanwhile, TBS and TNT loaded up […]

  Even EMPIRE wasn’t quite so mammoth last night. 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 […]

    CHICAGO FIRE:  WEDNESDAY 10PM on NBC WHAT IT’S SAYING:  Backdraft, not Rescue Me.  Big fires, sweeping, heroic music, a stalwart band of brothers (and the occasional sister) uniting despite their personal strife to save the people of Chicago. WHAT IT’S REALLY SAYING:  Even though it’s from Dick Wolf, not a pure Law & […]

>CBS aired the low-rated first round of the NCAA basketball tournament, falling to a fourth-place 1.7 rating with Adults 18-49 (the same as last year’s result).  ABC received some decent news with Missing premiering to a 2.0 rating at 8 pm.  Not a huge number but better than the mid-1 rating they have seen for […]

  OPENINGS:  As summer kick-off weekends go, the $92M for THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (Sony)–which may go down by $1M or so in final numbers tomorrow, given an aggressively high Sunday estimate–was pretty mild.  It came in below the openings of 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013 (above only the first Thor and the first Wolverine […]