Like the movie box office, the summer TV season is ending with a whimper. CBS:  The network will have to hope that there’s more audience interest in its new shows than the 0.8 rating for its CBS FALL PREVIEW infomercial suggests.  After that, the increasingly nutso UNDER THE DOME fell 0.2 to a new […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 fell 0.08 to 0.45, GREY’S ANATOMY lost 0.06 to 0.40, and ALASKA DAILY was down 0.09 to 0.17. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON ticked up to 0.57, GHOSTS gained 0.02 to 0.55, SO HELP ME TODD was steady at 0.32, and CSI: VEGAS ticked down to 0.27. NBC:  LAW & ORDER […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Note that the length of the NBC schedule on Super Bowl Sunday cut off the other networks, so partial ratings for those are below. ABC:  Reruns of AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS were at 0.17/1.7M & 0.17/1.6M, and reruns of SHARK TANK were at 0.10/800K & 0.18/1.2M. CBS:  A rerun of 60 MINUTES […]

  Haircuts weren’t much of a draw. 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 follows […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE VOICE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while BLINDSPOT lost 0.1 for a series low 1.3.  In addition, CASTLE lost its 0.1 bump, and both the 8PM BIG BANG THEORY rerun and the GOTHAM rerun were also down 0.1.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   […]

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at fall 2015:  The CW’s primetime lineup is shown below.  As a reminder, the programs are arranged by broadcast schedule, with each show placed on the night it spent most of the season so far.  The audience share for each of 30 gender-age subgroups is noted for each […]

  No treats for the networks on Halloween night. 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). Ratings analysis and […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 11 and Sunday October 12, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 6 Sunday 10.6 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly DEN-NYJ, SD-OAK, PIT-CLE) […]