Ratings for Thursday’s matches on ESPN and ESPN2 are in and of course the Germany vs USA match was the highest-rated match of the day, but only the third-highest USA match in World Cup 2014 because ESPN rated 187 minutes for the entire coverage (pre-match, post-match, halftime and the game itself) instead of the usual 150-minute […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

  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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The CBS and NBC REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION coverage gained 0.1 in final numbers, while MYSTERIES DECODED lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  See Mitch Metcalf’s REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION Night 4 ratings analysis for a detailed look at the […]

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 48: November 23-29, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  Now that we’ve looked through all the major and mini-major Hollywood studios (Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Universal and Lionsgate/Summit) and examined their summers, today we’ll wrap up our summer studio survey with snapshots of some of the more prominent independent studios.  Summer isn’t their key season–the August/September film festivals will […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  NBC’s Thanksgiving night THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up to 9.0.  There were also football-related adjustments at CBS, which had aired the late afternoon game:  the rerun BIG BANG THEORY lost 0.2 to 3.2, and LIFE IN PIECES dropped 0.1 to 2.1, but MOM gained 0.1 to 1.7. In addition, the MUPPETS […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The DANCING WITH THE STARS season finale gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: FX’s 3-episode airing of BLACK NARCISSUS was at 0.07/0.04 and off the chart at 0.03/310K. ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 3.62, up […]