NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted up 0.1 to 0.9, and FOX’s game adjusted up 0.3 to 3.6.  In another college football-related adjustment, the rerun of BULL lost 0.4 in final numbers.  The rerun DATELINE also dropped 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     […]

  OPENINGS:  Once it became clear that the predicted $40M wasn’t going to happen, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (Sony) badly wanted to claim a $35M opening, and so it did.  Actually hitting that number will require the 2d lowest Sunday drop in the Top 10 (behind only the phenomenal Instructions Not Included, one […]

Cable and broadcast nationals for Friday 3/26/2021 (normally at 1pm PT/ 4pm ET) will be posted a few hours later than usual today due to spring break travel. Check back later for revised post times. Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon posts this week will also be delayed, although we expect no delays for the morning posts. […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday September 19 through Sunday September 25, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

Twelve days into the three-week holiday movie season, 2012 is now 9.0% behind the average for the same period over the last several years ($362 million this year versus $398 million on average 2004-2011).  Further, 2012 is 12.1% behind the last time Christmas fell on a Tuesday (2007’s $412 million over this period).   After […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS dropped 0.13 to 0.68, AMERICAN IDOL fell 0.16 to 0.76, and THE ROOKIE was down 0.08 to 0.41. CBS:  60 MINUTES gained 0.06 to 0.56, THE EQUALIZER returned from an off-week up 0.06 to 0.47, NCIS: LA was at 0.44 compared to last week’s 0.39/0.42, and SWAT […]

> This afternoon and evening, FOX broadcast a thrilling playoff game which was tied 3-3 through the 11th inning, when Texas Ranger Nelson Cruz hit the first walk-off grand slam in MLB postseason history to defeat the Detroit Tigers 7-3.  Tonight TBS aired a rather ho-hum game in which the St Louis Cardinals led the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BRING THE FUNNY and MYSTERIES DECODED each lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN led Tuesday cable, up a tick to 0.63, with lead-out STRAIGHT UP STEVE AUSTIN at 0.32.  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF […]