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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.2.2017

Posted March 3, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  WHEN WE RISE fell another 0.1 in final numbers, putting it at 0.4 and ignominiously even below the documentary hour that preceded it.  The LIFE IN PIECES rerun also dropped 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA doubleheader […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 10.9.2014

Posted October 10, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Nielsen announced this morning that there have been systematic problems with their ratings since March, which weren’t noticed through the months of low summer viewing, but became obvious once the fall season began.  Although Nielsen didn’t address the issue directly, the assumption is that this is the explanation (you can read the […]

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SKEDBALL: World Series Ratings through Game 7 (Updated with Official Nationals)

Posted October 30, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Game 7 of the World Series Wednesday night averaged a 5.6 adult 18-49 fast national rating, which we are estimating will go up to around a 6.6 6.64 adult 18-49 rating in the official nationals (after time zone adjustment for this live telecast).  Another record low, but not enormously off the pace of the previous low […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.2.2020

Posted June 3, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  WORLD OF DANCE, both BLACK-ISH reruns and the FBI rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On another major news night, CNN TONIGHT was on top at 0.73/0.97/2.8M, with Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.55/0.89/5M, […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7.16.2017

Posted July 17, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

  Reminder:  no GAME OF THRONES ratings until tomorrow.  (Unless HBO issues an early press release.) 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 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.11.2020

Posted August 12, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  The BLACK-ISH and HELL’S KITCHEN reruns lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The Kamala Harris announcement put cable news at the top on Tuesday, with Fox News’s HANNITY at 0.44/0.69/4.6M, CNN’s SITUATION ROOM at 0.32/0.45/2M, and […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 11.25-26.2017

Posted November 29, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 25-26, 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, November 26-27, […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.11.2017

Posted December 12, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

      NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, football adjustments weren’t kind to ABC, where THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT and THE BACHELOR special both dropped 0.3.  In addition, BETTER LATE THAN NEVER lost 0.1 in final numbers.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT […]

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