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). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 live+same day ratings […]

FOX benefited from America’s Got Talent being benched by the NHL on NBC, which carried Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final (the Los Angeles Kings winning their first championship in the franchise’s 46-year history).  ABC also was helped to a lesser extent by displaced reality viewers looking for an alternative to hockey. FOX won […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The line-up aired for the first time since December 1, with THE GOLDBERGS up a tenth to 0.59, THE WONDER YEARS also gaining a tenth to 0.44, THE CONNERS down 0.06 to 0.46, and HOME ECONOMICS down 0.04 to 0.29.  THE CHASE was at 0.27. CBS:  THE AMAZING RACE aired its […]

    REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION coverage (aka The Melania & Michelle Show) was moderate and in line with 2012, although comparisons aren’t exactly even because the parallel night that year also included heavy coverage of a hurricane.  NBC’s 1.1 topped ABC’s 0.7 and CBS’s 0.5. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart […]

DNC Night 4 ratings below. In the past three election cycles, the audience for the final night of the DNC went up between 4.4 million and 10.6 million viewers 2+ from the prior night across the six major news networks in the 10 pm ET hour. Last night was up a small 325K viewers from […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 2-3, 2017.  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, September 3-4, […]

  Those waiting for Marvel to stumble will have to go on waiting.  Based on preliminary numbers at Deadline, THOR: RAGNAROK (Marvel/Disney) had a $46M opening day (including $14.5M from Thursday night), the highest for any Marvel Universe title released outside the May-July corridor.  Opening day was up 44% from the start of Thor:  The […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  MACGYVER gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  News was on the minds of many as they tuned into Friday cable, with the 4PM hour of CNN’s LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER on top with 0.57/0.80/2.9M, and with […]