This past sports weekend was dominated by four Divisional playoff games.  The first game in the Saturday doubleheader, traditionally the weakest matchup, turned out to be one of the best games (an exciting contest finally settled in double overtime). The Ravens and Broncos game Saturday at 4:30 (21.6 HH rating in the 56 large markets with […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 11: March 6-12, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

      BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  The line-up was down:  PRESS YOUR LUCK by 0.05 to 0.42, THE $100,000 PYRAMID by a tick to 0.50, and SUPERSTAR by 0.05 to 0.30. CBS:  BIG BROTHER dropped 0.04 to 0.90  HOUSE CALLS WITH DR PHIL premiered at 0.27, followed by the special DECLASSIFIED at 0.21. NBC:  AMERICA’S […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday July 8 through Sunday July 14, 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:  THE MIDDLE, the season finale of CHICAGO MED and NCIS gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE 100 lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS game owned the night at 3.25, and the preceding NBA DRAFT […]

Weekend #23 of 2014 is looking like a pretty typical $149 million for the top 12 films this weekend, within 1% of the norm for this weekend and 4% above the same weekend last year.   Opening at over 3,000 theaters Friday (well above the 2,886 average theater count for opening weekends the last two […]

  OSCARS UPDATE:  The shortfall for last night’s ACADEMY AWARDS presentation was even worse in time zone-adjusted numbers, with the ceremony only up to 10.8, down 2.3 points from 2014.  Although a lot of the fault has to do with the arthouse nature of the major nominees, it’ll be interesting to see if the Academy and […]

  Provocative, almost existential questions have circled this year’s Oscars since seconds after the nominations were announced.  Should the awards, and the Motion Picture Academy’s voting membership, mirror the actual state of the film industry, which is overwhelmingly dominated by older white men, or a Platonic ideal embodying a more diverse vision of what the […]