One guess what’s on top.  The surprise, though, is how little the walkers fed off their competition. AMC:  We already know that THE WALKING DEAD literally topped almost everything else in primetime television all season with a 8.2 in 18-49s.  (Sunday Night Football was adjusted up to 8.4 in the final numbers to edge […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  EMPIRE, SURVIVOR, SVU and CHICAGO PD all gained 0.1 in final numbers, while BLACK-ISH lost the same. There was no change for the CW shows.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The baseball National League WILD CARD GAME again showed strength after Tuesday’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 8.7 in final numbers.  In addition, after adjustment for the football overrun, THE SIMPSONS, SON OF ZORN and THE LAST MAN ON EARTH lost 0.1.  60 MINUTES also lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  SUPER BOWL 50 adjusted to 37.7 in final numbers, a gigantic number but not the equal of last year’s 39.1.  LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT ended up at 7.7 for a show that began at 10:54PM ET and ended at 12:02AM.  That compared to last year’s 8.4 for the post-Super Bowl […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER and MASTERCHEF gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the SUPERNATURAL rerun lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  After months of hype, HBO’s ANY GIVEN WEDNESDAY WITH BILL SIMMONS premiered at a tame 0.12.  OWN’s GREENLEAF was down steeply […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the Friday preliminary ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Friday cable was once again sports-heavy.  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS games sandwiched the NFL DRAFT coverage shared between the mothership network, ESPN2, and NFL Network.  The NBA […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 12-13, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size.   For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, November […]

Considering it was the third-worst blowout in Super Bowl history, the early ratings in the 56 markets with local Nielsen meters are very good and in line with the last four years.  National ratings will be available later today.  The 47.6 household rating in the metered markets for last night’s game will translate to a […]