President Obama’s farewell address may lead to adjustments in final numbers. 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). […]

  MONDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE:  FOX has issued post-SUPER BOWL ratings for 24: LEGACY, which had a 6.1 18-49 rating and 17.6M total P2+ viewers.  In any other context, of course, those would be massive numbers.  But compared to other post-Super Bowl programming, they’re rather mild.  Last year’s LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT, which started only […]

  The Upfronts are still 3 months away, but CW has charged ahead and issued renewals for–mostly–its hit series, with new seasons ordered for THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, THE ORIGINALS, SUPERNATURAL, ARROW and REIGN.  The first quartet of those were no-brainers, the spine of the network’s line-up.  Reign is a bit more of a surprise–it’s been […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUPERIOR DONUTS gained 0.1 in final numbers.  (GOOD GIRLS just barely held onto its preliminary 1.3 rating–it was at 1.25–despite the adjustment for a 10:01PM start time, but its hour began at 1.6 and ended at 1.0.)         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     […]

>On Thursday the February sweep will begin and suddenly original episodes will abound on the network schedules.  In the meantime, we have a night like last night where FOX was the only broadcast network with a full slate of fresh episodes.               Nightly Adult 18-49 Rating Tuesday      FOX    CBS […]

> A night of virtually all-new programming brought in plenty of viewers. CBS:  Back with new episodes for the first time in over a month, the network was up across the board by 0.2-0.4.  On a night where football reigned, that didn’t win any hours, but bodes very well for when the atypical competition is […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  There were no meaningful changes from the morning’s overnight numbers.  As often happens, when the dust settled on CBS, THE BIG BANG THEORY rose 0.1 to 5.4 and THE MILLERS slipped 0.1 to 2.8.  In addition, 2 1/2 MEN added 0.1 for 2.2.  Both half-hours of COMMUNITY ended up at 1.3s.  The […]

  Once CBS’s football simulcasts are removed in afternoon numbers, there’ll be even less to be excited about in last night’s ratings. 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 […]