Ratings continue to be unavailable from Nielsen.  The last release of data was on Monday afternoon (on time) with the official live+same day nationals for Friday 3.10.2017 (broadcast and cable).  Fast nationals and official nationals for Saturday and Sunday 3.11-12.2017 are now past due with no rescheduled release times in sight.  And now fast nationals […]

  As a rule, broadcast network schedules are released to the media about two weeks in advance, so as the fall season moves toward the beginning of November sweeps on Halloween night (ooooh, scary!), any  network that wants its changes to have effect during sweeps–still very important to stations, especially the 10PM hour that leads […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BROKE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Another news-heavy night was topped by CNN’s CUOMO PRIME TIME at 0.54/0.75/2.8M, with Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at […]

  The arrival of THE WALKING DEAD didn’t change much on the broadcast networks. 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 […]

  Thanks mostly to last night’s ACADEMY AWARDS, ABC enjoyed one of its very few weekly wins of the season.  The network was at 3.34 last week, up a huge 2.23 from the week before, while NBC was at 1.79 (down a massive 2.44 with the end of the Olympics), CBS averaged 1.69 (up 0.55 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game was dominant in primetime at 1.25, while Fox’s MLB game was at 0.55.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL was at the top of Saturday cable as well, with ESPN’s games at 1.03/0.54/0.40, ESPN2’s games at 0.32/0.20/0.13/0.12, and Fox Sports 1’s […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  DANCING WITH THE STARS was steady at 0.72, and THE GOOD DOCTOR ticked up to 0.42. CBS:  THE NEIGHBORHOOD lost 0.04 to 0.62, I HEART ABISHOLA dropped 0.07 to 0.52, NCIS fell 0.07 to 0.64, and NCIS:  HAWAII was down 0.02 to 0.48. NBC:  THE VOICE was steady at 0.96, and […]

A blah night for network TV. FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL may not be the behemoth it used to be, but it’s not going anywhere either, down just a tick to a still-powerful 5.4.  That’s higher than the combined ratings for ABC, CBS and FOX on the night. ABC:  It’s not much of a surprise that THE […]