> ABC has decided that MAN UP! isn’t even worthy of sullying its Tuesday 8:30PM timeslot during the low-rated holiday season.  Effective immediately, it’s off the schedule, replaced for now by repeats of LAST MAN STANDING. No one will miss Man Up!, but happiness at its demise is lessened by the fact that on January […]

  GREY’S ANATOMY, with its 16th season premiere, topped everything but football. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SHARK TANK and the rerun of MASTERCHEF JR each gained 0.1 in final numbers. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Discovery’s entire primetime line-up was thematically linked, and all of them landed in the night’s Top 4, with GOLD RUSH: THE […]

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]

  THE BACHELORETTE dropped from last week’s season high. 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 […]

  There was a time, not that many years ago, when Thursday was the night that network television was all about.  Fueled by the enormous amounts movie studios spend to promote their openings the next day, the night was stuffed with every network’s brightest offerings–and for more than a decade, it was dominated by one […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday November 25 through Sunday December 1, 2019.  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 chart for the same […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SURVIVOR gained 0.1 in final numbers, while RIVERDALE lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The NBA PLAYOFFS were again at the top of cable, with games on TNT at 1.68/1.23.  NBC Sports Net’s NHL PLAYOFFS game was at […]