The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 16 and Sunday April 17, 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. Golf PGA: The Heritage (Hilton Head […]

  A WRINKLE IN TIME (Disney) has likely taken the only box office title it will ever have.  According to preliminary numbers at Deadline, Wrinkle had a narrow victory on Friday with $11.3M ($1.2M of that from Thursday night).  But the general front-loadedness of new openings, combined with the likely dim word of mouth here […]

  On Valentine’s Day, the CBS demo snuggled up with a crossover. 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). […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  As expected, ABC adjusted downward when its local football simulcasts were removed, with DANCING WITH THE STARS at 1.8 (down 0.4 from last week) and the season premiere of CASTLE at 2.2, the same as last season’s premiere.  Both the new episode of THE BIG BANG THEORY and SCORPION gained 0.1 in […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  OLYMPICS ratings climbed 0.4 in final numbers to 5.9.  Elsewhere, the 9PM rerun of WAYWARD PINES fell 0.1 to 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Cable coverage of the RIO SUMMER OLYMPICS took 5 of Saturday’s top 11 slots (and all of […]

  ABC’s crossover didn’t ignite. 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 and comparisons follow […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 17 and Sunday January 18, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Conference Championships Sunday 29.1 rating FOX 3:00 pm Green Bay at Seattle 23.5 rating CBS […]

  THE MASKED SINGER continued to dominate the night. 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 […]