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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Monday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.1.2018

Posted January 3, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary ratings for Monday.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN and its COLLEGE FOOTBALL games owned New Year’s Day, with the Georgia vs. Oklahoma game at 7.55, and Alabama vs. Clemson at 6.32, both […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12.7.2015

Posted December 8, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  TELENOVELA didn’t start well. 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. […]

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Weekend Studio Estimates 1.16-18.2015

Posted January 18, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

Based on Friday’s and Saturday’s grosses, weekend #3 of 2015 looks like $185 million for the top 12 films Friday-Sunday, even better than the estimate yesterday ($172 million), way up from the norm for this weekend and setting a new record for the third weekend in January, breaking last year’s brief record (see track below […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 9.16.2018

Posted September 17, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

  Another dominating night for SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL. 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 […]

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2014-15 TV Season

SHOWBUZZDAILY Emmy Awards Thoughts

Posted September 20, 2015 by Mitch Salem

The EMMY AWARDS could hardly have gone more emphatically HBO’s way, with wins for Best Drama, Comedy, Limited Series and Made-For-TV Movie, not to mention many of the acting, writing and directing awards that went with them.  It was a night with a lot of exciting new winners, but the show itself was very much […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekly Sports TV Ratings 11.14-11.20.2022

Posted November 22, 2022 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday November 14 through Sunday November 20, 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: […]

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Year to Date Box Office & Worldwide Studio Scorecard 10.12.2014

Posted October 12, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

WORLDWIDE STUDIO SCORECARD.  Fox rolls on, running away with 2014 worldwide with another $144 million this week (mostly from continued strong overseas grosses from Maze Runner and Gone Girl).  Fox is a huge #1 with almost $4.2 billion for the year to date worldwide.  The next best week came from lowly Universal ($134 million worldwide the past week), […]

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THE SKED: Upfront Ad Sales and Their Moving Parts

Posted June 13, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  According to published reports, CBS, CW and now FOX have largely concluded their upfront sales of advertising time for the 2013-14 broadcast season.  (“Upfront” meaning sales closed before the season begins, as opposed to the “scatter” market, which sells time during the course of the season–normally networks try to sell 70-80% of their ad […]

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