NETWORK FINALS:  NCIS and NCIS: NEW ORLEANS gained 0.1 in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS game led Tuesday cable at 1.87.  The sports motif continued with 0.80 for NBC Sports Net’s NHL PLAYOFFS game.  Discovery had the top […]

  People had better things to do on Valentine’s Day. 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 […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday July 7-8, 2018.  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, July 8-9, […]

      NETWORK UPDATE:  THE EMMYS adjusted to 2.8 in final numbers, still down a big 0.8 from the 2015 final rating.  (The Red Carpet PRE-SHOW went down to 0.9 after adjustment.)  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 8.2, far below the 9.7 for last year’s parallel game.  Once the late afternoon NFL overrun was […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELORETTE dipped 0.04 to 0.67, and QUEENS was down 0.03 to 0.28. CBS:  Back from 2 weeks of reruns, FBI dropped 0.12 to 0.58, FBI: INTERNATIONAL fell 0.12 to 0.46, and FBI: MOST WANTED was down 0.19 to 0.44. NBC:  A recap episode of THE VOICE was at 0.54, down […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A Monday edition of AMERICAN IDOL was up 0.08 from Sunday’s episode to 0.73, and THE GOOD DOCTOR was down 0.06 to 0.38. CBS:  THE NEIGHBORHOOD ticked down to 0.63, and BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA was down 0.09 to 0.51  NCIS ticked down to 0.55, and NCIS: HAWAII was up 0.06 to […]

  Yesterday, we looked at the major Movies/Miniseries categories at Sunday’s Emmy Awards.  Today it’s time for the season’s honored comedies: COMEDY SERIES “The Big Bang Theory” (CBS) “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO) “Girls” (HBO) “Modern Family” (ABC) “30 Rock” (NBC) “Veep” (HBO) WILL WIN: MODERN FAMILY, unexcitinglyfor the third year in a row–more from a process […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS […]