Mild declines for NBC. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s STANLEY CUP FINALS game adjusted up by 0.1.  In addition, the special DEAL OR NO DEAL fell 0.2 in final numbers.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO’s BIG LITTLE LIES returned at 0.39.  That show had an unusually sharp […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s run of MONSTERS UNIVERSITY and CBS’s rerun of NCIS: NEW ORLEANS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It appears that HBO mistakenly listed the premiere of Beyonce’s LEMONADE as a rerun, which is why it […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE VOICE, CHICAGO FIRE, AGENTS OF SHIELD, NCIS, and NCIS: NEW ORLEANS  all grew by 0.1 in final numbers, but ONE BIG HAPPY shrank by the same amount.  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS games ruled the night, with 1.92 for the Clippers/Spurs duel, and 1.41 for the early game.  Not sure what […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only adjustments were 0.1 increases for the reruns of NCIS and NCIS: NEW ORLEANS. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:   TNT’s last NBA PLAYOFFS game of the season gave it the night at 2.48.  On Discovery, THE DEADLIEST CATCH was down 0.05 to 0.97, lead-in DEADLIEST CATCH: THE BAIT was at 0.42, and SONS OF WINTER […]

Last night ABC won prime time with a disappointing 1.7 adult 18-49 rating in the fast nationals for the Notre Dame-Boston College game in which the Fighting Irish extended their undefeated season.  The game will go up in the official nationals (realeased Tuesday morning) to about a 1.9 or 2.0.  The real prime time test […]

  ALL AMERICAN didn’t make the team. 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 […]

>The numbers are remaining very impressive for HBO’s smash hit GAME OF THRONES. Last night’s Episode 2 rating was only down 2-3% from the series-record season premiere the previous week. That’s better than the hold True Blood had between its season premiere and 3rd episode (its 2d episode can’t fairly be counted because it fell […]