College basketball domination. 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 comparisons follow the […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SUNDAY  NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up to 8.2 in final numbers, considerably better than last week’s 6.9.  Elsewhere, 60 MINUTES, MADAM SECRETARY and THE GOOD WIFE each received a 0.1 bump (and an episode of CSI: CYBER that didn’t start until 10:59PM in most of the country was at 0.7).  On FOX, the […]

>Last night FOX hit a 3 rating from 8-10 pm, tough to do in Christmas week and doubling the rating it received on the same night last year.  The other networks were in the low-1 rating range, within a tenth or two of last year’s delivery.              Nightly Adult 18-49 […]

> PBS had to dust off its forms and sharpen the quill pens it uses to announce big ratings news, because DOWNTON ABBEY came back strong in its Season 2 debut. The network announced that Downton‘s premiere was watched by 4.2 million viewers.  Apart from doubling PBS’s usual primetime average–which is no surprise–it was up […]

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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BACHELOR: LISTEN TO YOUR HEART gained 0.1 in final numbers, while SONGLAND and the TMZ TIGER KING special lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Cable news led Monday with Fox News’s SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRET BAIER at […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary ratings for Monday.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN and its COLLEGE FOOTBALL games owned New Year’s Day, with the Georgia vs. Oklahoma game at 7.55, and Alabama vs. Clemson at 6.32, both […]

>The Worldwide Box Office chart now tracks the movies released in the U.S. the last three months.  This will provide a clearer view of the marketplace at any point of the year.  Remember that each week going forward, movies will be added to the ranking and the oldest movies will be deleted as they fall out […]