NETWORK UPDATE:  ROOKIE BLUE gained 0.1 to avoid a series low.  The rest of the news was bad:  HELL’S KITCHEN, GANG RELATED, and all the new episodes of UNDATEABLE were down 0.1 from preliminary ratings. THURSDAY CABLE:  On a night that didn’t feature much new original programming, Adult Swim’s LOITER SQUAD led the evening […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 30 and Sunday January 31, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. NFL 5.03 rating ESPN 7:00 pm […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Most of the broadcast networks were in rerun mode due to the NCAA Championship game, but ABC was all-new, as AMERICAN IDOL fell a tenth to 0.64, and THE GOOD DOCTOR dropped 0.07 to 0.37. CBS:  Reruns at 0.44/0.37/0.28/0.22. NBC:  AMERICAN SONG CONTEST lost another 0.06 to 0.28, and a special […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Friday July 9, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

The Past Week: Total Box Office Volume All films in wide release playing between November 19 and November 25 grossed an excellent $325 million, up 19% from the four-year average for the week and up 25% from the same week last year.   Over the last four weeks,  The past six weeks are now 15% […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for THE MASKED SINGER, AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE, CHICAGO MED, CHICAGO FIRE and CHICAGO PD.  Note that while NANCY DREW didn’t technically adjust (because we don’t have numbers to the thousandth), it went to 0.05, which might have rounded higher.         […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Because THE MICK aired twice on the west coast, at both 5PM and 8PM, it adjusted up a healthy 0.4 to 2.8. SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 7.4, up a point from the Christmas night game.  RANSOM, however, lost 0.1 in final numbers, and the FAMILY GUY rerun dropped […]

  A solid finale for LINCOLN RHYME. 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 of 2). Ratings analysis follows […]