Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday January 6-7, 2018. 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, January 7-8, […]
>American Idol finally stopped falling and might even be up from last week when the official nationals adjustment are in later today. Don’t Trust the B- in Apt 23 premiered to okay ratings on ABC, while NBC tried another program combination on Wednesday night. Nightly Adult 18-49 Rating Wednesday […]
Sunday preliminary broadcast ratings:
>The ratings for the ACM Awards on CBS were understated. The corrected numbers appear below. CBS took a bit of a hit with the Academy of Country Music Awards, which were down over 20% 9% from last year’s telecast. The night as a whole was up a tick from last week, leading CBS to a […]
NETWORK FINALS: Once the CBS numbers were scrubbed of their NFL overrun, 60 MINUTES dropped half a point to 2.6, NCIS: LA and ELEMENTARY each shed 0.1, and MADAM SECRETARY remained unchanged. SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL itself adjusted to 6.2 for NBC, although that was down a big 1.5 from the previous […]
Wednesday preliminary broadcast ratings:
> Don’t give up on Fringe just yet. FOX: Maybe all the fans really were at The Hunger Games last week. FRINGE had a huge rebound to 1.2 last night, which still put it in 3d place for the hour (this is Fringe, after all), but gave it a welcome tie with the already-renewed Grimm […]
History Channel, which just entered the world of scripted television 2 days ago, now owns the #1 and #2 scripted programs in the history of basic cable, as the 2d installment of HATFIELDS & MCCOYS barely declined from Monday’s premiere. Tuesday’s episode was down only around 5% from Part 1, to about 13 million […]