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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS […]
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 3 through Sunday October 4, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same NFL and college football weeks or the same calendar weekend […]
Top cable and broadcast programs of the week (with last week for comparison). Now that we are in the summer, swimming with repeats, we have extended the list to include programs with a 1.3 or 1.4 adult 18-49 rating. Looking ahead to the new week: Next week’s chart for June 3-9 will be topped by […]
BROADCAST FINALS: ABC: After a CORAZON DE AMERICA special at 0.22, 20/20 was at 0.28 compared to last week’s 0.48/0.43. CBS: BIG BROTHER was at 0.63, followed by GREATEST #ATHOME VIDEOS at 0.19 and a BLUE BLOODS rerun at 0.14. NBC: After an AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR rerun at 0.33, DATELINE dropped 0.07 to 0.26. […]
Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #24 of 2013 looks like a really good $192 million for the top 12 films, not quite the $200+ million we forecast but still up 27% from the average for this weekend the past few years. Man of Steel is opening exactly at our expectations, while most of the holdovers […]
BROADCAST FINALS: Primetime COLLEGE FOOTBALL aired on 3 networks, with CBS at 1.96, ABC at 1.12 and FOX at 0.92. CW launched its new line-up of Saturday originals at 0.06/0.07. NBC’s SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE rose 0.12 to 1.04. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: TBS’s MLB PLAYOFFS games were at […]
> I’m not sure why shows on the CW feel it necessary to over-saturate with wall to wall and poorly placed music in order to appeal to viewers. It seems to me that the target demo that voraciously downloads music is also a generation that is much savvier than any of us was pre-iTunes. A […]
There is, it turns out, an audience for scripted network drama during the summer. CBS: Airing in the dead of network summer, and against what turned out to be the last hour of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, UNDER THE DOME had a huge 3.2 debut in 18-49s and over 13M viewers, numbers that […]