>FOX wins Thursday, but CBS — the only network to show gains on the night — is getting closer.                Nightly Adult 18-49 Rating Thursday     FOX    CBS    ABC    NBC    02.02.2012   3.9    3.5    2.5    1.5    02.03.2011   5.4    3.1 […]

> Monday boxoffice is tricky to analyze, because as you’d expect, the all-time list of Monday grosses is largely a history of long holiday weekends, namely Memorial Day, July 4th, Martin Luther King Day, and Christmas/New Year’s week.  So strictly speaking, THE HUNGER GAMES’ $10.8M gross on its 4th day in theatres is only the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The special MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.0, followed by an episode of BIG BROTHER at 0.9.  In addition, in final numbers the BIDEN TOWN HALL gained 0.02 to 0.07, and EMERGENCY CALL and PENN & TELLER: FOOL US both lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals […]

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). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted up 0.4 to 2.2, down 0.5 from the 2018 game.  In addition, the MOM rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Original cable programming on Christmas Day was dominated by ESPN’s share […]

  NOTE: ABC numbers below inflated by NFL Preseason pre-emption in Los Angeles (mostly in the early part of the evening). FOX’s 7-10 pm numbers inflated by NFL Preseason pre-emption in New Orleans.   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 […]

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, Weekend #49 of 2013 still looks like $87 million for the top 12 films from Friday-Sunday, right on target for the usually slow post-Thanksgiving weekend.   Opening at 2,101 theaters Friday, Out of the Furnace from Relativity grossed $1.9 million Friday and $2.1 million Saturday, now on track for a $5.3 million […]

  All this summer’s box office needed for burial was a shovel, and Hollywood provided that with a Labor Day line-up devoid of any genuinely wide new releases.  The result is going to be ugly, except for a few hardy holdovers. The widest release of the weekend isn’t new at all:  it’s the one-week 901-theatre […]