Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday January 24 through Sunday January 30, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only adjustment from preliminary numbers was a 0.1 dip for the PARKS & RECREATION rerun on NBC. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Two big scripted shows returned to their line-ups on Tuesday to lead the night:  THE […]

Don’t trust ABC with your life. ABC:  The network’s semi-improvised comedy TRUST US WITH YOUR LIFE plummeted even from its awful premiere numbers, scoring 0.6 in both of its half-hours–that was below the sitcom reruns that ran in the 8PM hour.  NY MED was also down, although less steeply, to 1.1. FOX:  Cooking reigns supreme, […]

  Retro is in. 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. ABC:  […]

  OPENINGS:  The surprise isn’t so much that COCAINE BEAR (Universal) “overdelivered,” but that expectations were so low for a picture that had been the subject of pop culture fascination for months.  The $23.1M weekend seems like a realistic reflection of that fact, and although business is likely to drop quickly now that audiences have […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 13-14, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, October 14-15, […]

Weekend #44 of 2014 is looking like $73 million for the top 12 films this weekend, down 40% from the norm for this weekend.  This weekend though is really an afterthought, as the calendar trashed it as it does every seven years by placing Halloween on a Friday.  Some half-hearted openings this odd weekend, and […]

The fourth and final night of the 2016 Republican National Convention added up to 30.8 million persons 2+ and over 9.9 million adults 25-54 on the three broadcast networks and three cable new channels, well above Wednesday night (22.8 million P2+ and 6.6 million P25-54).  As we have seen most of the week, Thursday night was above […]