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 39: September 19-25, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

> NBC’s WHITNEY hasn’t really had much of a midseason break, but tonight marked its move from a cushy home on Thursday night, where it aired behind the network’s only hit, The Office, to the much more challenging job of opening Wednesday nights and clearing the way for new sitcom Are You There, Chelsea?  So […]

Based on Friday’s grosses, Weekend #49 of 2013 looks like $87 million for the top 12 films from Friday-Sunday, right on target for the usually slow post-Thanksgiving weekend.   Opening at 2,101 theaters Friday, Out of the Furnace from Relativity grossed $1.9 million Friday and is on track for a $5.5 million opening weekend (below the already bearish […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS gained 0.02 to 0.39, CELEBRITY JEOPARDY rose 0.03 to 0.40, CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE climbed 0.02 to 0.35, and THE ROOKIE was up 0.06 to 0.33. CBS:  Comparisons are to 2 weeks ago, the last time the network had the late national NFL game.  60 MINUTES surged […]

> America is willing to follow FOX behind bars. FOX:  The 2-hour launch of ALCATRAZ went very well, with a solid 3.3 that held throughout the broadcast.  That put the network squarely in 2d place for the night behind CBS’s blockbuster line-up.  If the show can manage not to collapse the way Terra Nova did, […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1, 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: Zurich Classic of New […]

  On a night dotted with football (adjusted up below to anticipated final numbers), it didn’t pay to be the odd network out. ABC:  The fall finale of ONCE UPON A TIME didn’t go the way ABC had hoped, dropping 0.2 from last week to 1.9, which tied its all-time low.  The show doesn’t return […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ELECTION COVERAGE:  Most networks turned over their schedule to the news, and NBC won broadcast bragging rights at 0.63, with ABC at 0.54 and CBS at 0.40.  On the Spanish-language front, Univision outrated Telemundo. FOX:  Returning from a World Series break, THE RESIDENT lost 0.03 to 0.35, and MONARCH was up a […]