NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from Sunday’s preliminary ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  In the absence of BIG LITTLE LIES and FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, the top-rated scripted show on Sunday cable was Adult Swim’s late-night MIKE TYSON MYSTERIES at […]

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (January 28-February 3, 2013), CBS of course dominated with the Super Bowl, achieving a preliminary 9.04 adult 18-49 rating for the week.  This assumes about a 40.6 rating during prime time on Sunday (estimated from the 35.3 non-time-zone-adjusted fast national rating).  Last year, NBC scored a 7.66 rating […]

NOTE: ABC and CW numbers below are inflated somewhat by major-market pre-emptions for the Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN nationally. ABC stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose carried the late game (Rams-Raiders in west coast primetime), while WPIX in New York (CW) carried the Jets-Lions game in east/central primetime. Any Detroit pre-emption […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  HAWAII 5-0 gained 0.1 in final numbers, but MASTERCHEF JR  lost the same. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH easily won the night despite dropping 0.11 from last week to 1.23.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.71/0.68.  On Lifetime, BRING IT lost 0.09 to […]

    CW Programs added below the chart as a note.     NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.6, down 0.3 from last week’s game.  Elsewhere, THE SIMPSONS, 60 MINUTES and NCIS: LA gained 0.1 in final numbers       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CW: Pandora     8:00 PM  […]

  Varying starts for the night’s newcomers. 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 and […]

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 42: October 12-18, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

> HBO, to no one’s surprise, has renewed both its new half-hours, VEEP and GIRLS, for 2d seasons (10 episodes each).  Neither show is a ratings blockbuster (numbers aren’t available yet for last night, but the previous week Veep had an 0.6 rating and Girls had a 0.4), but as is often the case with […]