> EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE:  Worth A Ticket –  Earns Its Tears If EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE accomplishes nothing else–and it actually accomplishes quite a bit–it’s served to let us know exactly where the third rail of current American popular culture is located.  It’s not every day that the august NY Times informs […]

  Another big win for MASKED SINGER. 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). Ratings analysis and […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The NCAA TOURNAMENT games on CBS adjusted to 0.9/1.2, down from last year’s 1.7/1.4.  Elsewhere, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE dropped 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Thursday cable was naturally dominated by the NCAA TOURNAMENT, which took up 10 […]

  NBC made a clean sweep of the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION ratings, winning the final night with a 1.1 over 0.7 at both ABC and CBS.  Note that because of the length of the nominee’s acceptance speech, some west coast programming was delayed or partially cut off, which may lead to adjustments this afternoon. DEMOGRAPHIC […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  We weren’t able to post analysis this morning, so here’s a rundown of the night: ABC:  Compared to last week, BACHELOR IN PARADISE was up 0.1 to 1.3, and GRAND HOTEL was steady at 0.4 (but down 0.1 from this morning’s preliminary numbers). NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR was down […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday May 31 and Sunday June 1, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   NBA: Playoffs 5.7 rating TNT 8:30 pm Saturday San Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma City Thunder […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Monday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The first installment of History’s GRANT was at 0.34. NatGeo’s BARKSKINS premiered at 0.12/0.08. USA’s WWE telecast was at 0.52/0.50/0.50, compared to last week’s 0.53/0.53/0.48.  On […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Monday ratings.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TLC’s 90 DAY FIANCE franchise again topped the ratings at 1.03/0.78/0.43, compared to last week’s 0.41/0.40.  USA’s WWE telecast was at 0.55/0.55/0.48 compared to last week’s […]