BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK gained 0.04 to 0.51, and 20/20 was up 0.04 to 0.36. CBS:  SWAT rose 0.05 to 0.43, FIRE COUNTRY had a promising Week 2 0.08 bump to 0.48, and BLUE BLOODS was up 0.02 to 0.43. NBC:  COLLEGE BOWL ticked down to 0.20, and DATELINE also lost a tick […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  EMPIRE gained 0.1 in final numbers, and HEARTBEAT lost 0.1.  On the rerun front, THE GOLDBERGS was up 0.1, while BLACK-ISH and SVU were down the same.        Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS games dominated the night at 1.43/1.19, Cleveland vs. […]

Female-oriented reality stood atop the cable ranking Sunday night.  Real Housewives Atlanta averaged a 1.58 rating with adults 18-49 at 8:00 pm on Bravo.  With the smaller demographic segments, Real Housewives was strongest with women 35-49 (#1 for the day with a 2.54 rating in that demo).  On E! at 9:00 pm, Keeping Up with […]

For the 16 days December 16-31, the top 10 films each day in North America have totaled $871 million, now virtually even with last year’s pace and now -12% behind the record pace of 2015, when Star Wars: The Force Awakens dominated the holiday season. With Rogue One last year and The Last Jedi this year, the Star Wars franchise has definitely taken the holiday movie […]

Better late than never — the weekly ranking of the top telecasts on television the last two weeks.

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 20 and Sunday July 21, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   ESPN had good results from The British Open (or The Open, if you prefer), up […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The STANLEY CUP FINALS adjusted up to 2.3 after time zones were accounted for.  In addition, 20/20 rose by 0.1.  FRIDAY CABLE:  See our WORLD CUP SKEDBALL post for a detailed breakdown of the day’s games, but in 18-49s, 2 of the games were the highest-rated shows on cable:  the Spain/Netherlands game  […]

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 the age of 2). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]