NETWORK FINALS:  There were no significant adjustments from the preliminary Saturday primetime ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: In addition to airing the NAACP IMAGE AWARDS on CBS as noted above, Viacom did a massive simulcast across its networks.  These are the […]

    THE BIG BANG THEORY, not so big. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s US OPEN coverage adjusted to 1.5.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On HBO, after BIG LITTLE LIES rose 0.06 to 0.45, the premiere of EUPHORIA was at 0.17, an underwhelming number although HBO claims that the young-skewing show did […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 0.9.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL dominated Saturday cable, with games at 0.93/0.63/0.44 (plus COLLEGE GAMEDAY at 0.55), not to mention Fox Sports 1’s games at 0.33/0.16 and ESPN2’s games at 0.29/0.17.  Adult […]

      NOTE TO READERS:  Beginning with the Monday cable post this afternoon, and for the rest of the week, charts will be posted as usual, but text (and responses to Comments) will be much delayed if they appear at all, due to our Sundance coverage. NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted to 1.2.  […]

      Check out our continuing coverage of the March Madness television ratings through Friday.   NETWORK FINALS:  The CBS NCAA TOURNAMENT games adjusted to 1.7/3.2.  All other ratings remained as per the morning preliminaries.     Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Naturally the TBS NCAA TOURNAMENT games were […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Friday cable was entirely dominated by news, and and is often the case when the story is of general interest, CNN was on top with CNN […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The SURVIVOR REUNION special, which didn’t begin until 10:33PM, fell 0.4 in final numbers.  In addition, the WILL & GRACE rerun lost 0.1 and PITCH PERFECT gained the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1’s BLACK INK CREW topped Wednesday […]