>Poor TBS.  FOX’s coverage of ALCS Game 4 (Texas at Detroit) ended up going 11 innings and four hours, from a delayed start at 6:35 pm ET to 10:35 pm.  The TBS game (NLCS Game 3, Milwaukee at St Louis) started on time shortly after 8 pm, and anyone tuning in to TBS from FOX […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s shows shuffled a tenth in final numbers, with AMERICA’S GOT TALENT up and BETTER LATE THAN NEVER down.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  There were two high-profile arrivals on cable Tuesday night.  After the 0.90 season finale of THE […]

Marvel’s The Avengers (distributed by Disney) has jumped to $441.5 million to date overseas (up from $178.4 million last week, when it opened ahead of Friday’s North American debut).  United Kingdom ($25.7 million so far) and Australia ($20.2 million) lead the international charge so far, although there are also impressive results from Mexico ($17.4 million), South Korea […]

  MONDAY UPDATE:  There were several 0.1 adjustments, a couple of which are worth noting.  HANNIBAL’s increase was reduced by half when it lost 0.1 from early numbers, and HART OF DIXIE didn’t go up at all when the adjustment was factored in.  LAST MAN STANDING, THE NEIGHBORS, DATELINE and 20/20 all bumped up 0.1 […]

  Best Friends not forever. NBC:  The burn-off of the final episodes of BEST FRIENDS FOREVER was ugly, as they scored a CW-level 0.6.  DATELINE more than doubled that with a 1.4, winning the 9PM hour and a close 2d place at 10PM.

  SOMEWHERE BETWEEN isn’t anywhere good. 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 the […]

Chart updated with persons 2+ audiences for the four games played Thursday, March 26, 2015 (Day 1 of 2 in Sweet 16 Round): Telecast 53: CBS 7 pm #3-Notre Dame 81 #7-Wichita State 70 (ND up 33-30 at half) Telecast 54: CBS 9:49 pm #1-Kentucky 78 #5-West Virginia 39 (Kentucky up 44-18 at half) Telecast […]

>FOX scored an impressive (for Saturday) preliminary 2.2 rating with Adults 18-49 last night with UFC: Evans vs Davis from Chicago (featuring two other undercard Ultimate Fighting bouts).  The live fights built smartly through the night by half hour: 8:00 (1.8), 8:30 (2.2), 9:00 (2.4) and 9:30 (2.6).  Remember these numbers are certain to rise […]