Goodbye, I FEEL BAD. 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 follows the chart. […]

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

>This past week in cable, ESPN’s Monday Night Football drifted down to a 4.9 rating with Adults 18-49, still the highest-rated cable program by far.  NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football rose to a 2.9 rating. AMC’s Walking Dead continues to soften but remains the top-rated scripted series on cable.  About one rating point behind Walking […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted this morning, due to football adjustments we’ll take a look at the final ratings for last night: ABC:  HOLEY MOLEY (0.5), FAMILY FOOD FIGHT (0.3) and REEF BREAK (0.2) were steady with last week’s finals. CBS:  BIG BROTHER (1.0) and the series finale of ELEMENTARY (0.4) […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE SUPER BOWL adjusted to 31.0, down 2.4 from 2018’s final number.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As usual, there were few alternatives on Super Bowl Sunday.  Animal Planet’s PUPPY BOWL fell a sharp 0.39 from last year’s edition to […]

>The Help sits at the top of the heap thanks to a terrific 19% drop in its second weekend and especially thanks to the very weak crop of openers that make up that heap.  Spy Kids 4, Conan the Barbarian and Fright Night all are opening below forecast and headed for a quick end on […]

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look back at the complete 2014-2015 television season.  The CW’s primetime lineup is shown below.  As a reminder, the programs are arranged by broadcast schedule, with each show placed on the night it spent most of the season.  The audience share for each of 30 gender-age subgroups is noted […]

  If the answer is “JEOPARDY,” the question is “What is ABC’s best ratings news in quite a while?” 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 […]