NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for HOME ECONOMICS, CALL YOUR MOTHER, THE MASKED SINGER and the CHICAGO PD rerun         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV’s THE CHALLENGE gained 0.04 to 0.53.  TNT’s ALL ELITE WRESTLING, no longer […]

  It’s been a busy couple of days for premieres and returns on basic cable (pay cable’s big night is this upcoming Sunday, when both HBO and Showtime begin their winter schedules).  The winner:  PRETTY LITTLE LIARS on ABCFamily, with a strong 1.4 rating in 18-49s that was beaten for the night only by an […]

The weekend looks like a mediocre $82 million for the top 12 films, a little softer than it looked yesterday (now slightly lagging the multi-year average for this weekend).  Argo continues to do well, as we expected, but the four openers all did even worse than our conservative predictions in Wednesday’s ShowbuzzDaily Weekend Forecast. The ShowbuzzDaily Domestic Final estimates […]

  THE MICK dipped. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow the chart. FOX:  […]

Here is the final Summer Olympic ratings track for Rio 2016, with the official ratings for all 17 nights.  In terms of millions of viewers 2+, Rio finished above Sydney 2000, just above Athens 2004, but below Beijing 2008 and London 2012.  In terms of adult 18-49 rating (what an advertiser cares about), Rio was well below […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  On another heavy COLLEGE FOOTBALL day, ABC’s primetime game was at 0.74, NBC’s was at 0.42, and FOX’s was at 0.78, although CBS had the prize with its afternoon game at 2.88.  NBC’s SNL was down 0.07 to 0.66.  CW’s QUEEN ELIZABETH:  THE WOMAN BEHIND THE CROWN special was at 0.06.   […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  After time-zone adjustment, FOX’s NFL PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 13.4, down 2 points from last year’s primetime game, and THE RESIDENT adjusted to 2.6.  Elsewhere, the 10PM SHARK TANK lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It was a night […]

Here are the full week sports ratings (such as they are) for Monday March 30 through Sunday April 5, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar […]