GREY’S ANATOMY made history and won the night. 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 […]

> Gary Ross should probably think twice before leaving THE HUNGER GAMES. THE HUNGER GAMES: Because of the Good Friday holiday, Friday numbers were unusually strong this week and Saturday’s will appear unusually weak. That could mean a 3rd weekend of around $33M for Hunger Games (Lionsgate/Summit) (depending on the Easter Sunday drop), which could […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals). CBS returned to the top spot this past week despite not airing in about 3 million Time Warner Cable homes as the stand-off over per-subscriber compensation drags on.  NBC tumbled to third place, as a […]

Ratings for Sunday’s ESPN matches show that the Knockout Stage (starting with the Round of 16) is off to a great start.  The Netherlands vs Mexico match at 11:30 am Sunday averaged 5.7 million persons 2+ watching ESPN on television, while the 3:30 pm Costa Rica vs Greece match (settled by a shoot-out) hit 5.9 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Things didn’t get better for THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL in finals, which adjusted to 3.4, down 1.1 from last week’s game.  There were no other changes from morning numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The pinch was felt on the NFL […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 25 and Sunday June 26, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year. Golf PGA […]

  Some viewers spent the night at Camp… but see below. NBC:  Per Mitch Metcalf:  on the surface, a fairly good debut for Camp at 10PM last night (a time period-winning 1.5 rating with adults 18-49).  However, please note that NBC peaked with a 2.9 rating at 9:30 for the second half of the AMERICA’S GOT […]

  JEOPARDY remained champion. 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 […]