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Weekly Ratings Way Off the Normal Pace for Broadcast Networks

Posted February 18, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (February 11-17, 2013), FOX won with a preliminary 2.11 adult 18-49 rating in prime time, down from last week’s 2.25 rating but still ahead of the horrible performances by the other networks. CBS will fall to second place with a preliminary 1.89 adult 18-49 rating, down from last week’s Grammy-boosted 3.32 […]

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THE SKED’S FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 3/15/13

Posted March 16, 2013 by Mitch Salem

A good night for Tom Selleck fans, and not much more. CBS:  BLUE BLOODS was the highest rated show of the night, up 0.3 to 1.7.  However, it’s not clear at this point how much local preemptions for basketball championships affected Friday’s numbers.  Earlier in the evening, reruns of UNDERCOVER BOSS and HAWAII 5-0 were […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Tuesday 11.23.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted November 24, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELORETTE dipped 0.07 to 0.62, and QUEENS was down 0.02 to 0.26. CBS:  Reruns at 0.47/0.38/0.36. NBC:  THE VOICE slipped 0.03 to 0.79, LA BREA fell 0.14 to 0.46 (between the 2 shows, the network ran a 5-minute promo for next summer’s JURASSIC WORLD installment, which was rated at 0.67).  […]

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SKEDBALL: College Football Playoff Championship Ratings

Posted January 10, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

Although the College Football Playoff semifinal games were up this year over last year (one game up +23% and the other up a more modest +3%), last night’s Championship game was down slightly from last year’s already disappointing final in most demographics.  The 25.2 million viewers 2+ audience last night breaks down to 24.4 million […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 25 Friday Cable Originals (& Network/Oscars Update): 2.20.2015

Posted February 23, 2015 by Mitch Metcalf

  OSCARS UPDATE:  The shortfall for last night’s ACADEMY AWARDS presentation was even worse in time zone-adjusted numbers, with the ceremony only up to 10.8, down 2.3 points from 2014.  Although a lot of the fault has to do with the arthouse nature of the major nominees, it’ll be interesting to see if the Academy and […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Friday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.13.2021

Posted August 16, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

          Now where were we…   BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:  As we noted in this morning’s post, we’ll be posting broadcast ratings on the basis of finals rather than preliminary morning numbers.  Starting with the Monday ratings (which we should have tomorrow afternoon), we’ll be able to provide comparisons with the previous week.  […]

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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 12/27/11

Posted December 28, 2011 by Mitch Salem

> The broadcast networks continue their holiday vacation, with virtually no new programming on the air. CBS:  The KENNEDY CENTER HONORS are a prestige show that no one watches, and more so this year:  a dismal 1.1 that was down considerably even from last year’s 1.5–and that’s with a 2.1 NCIS rerun lead-in that was […]

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THE SKED’S TUESDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 4/9/13

Posted April 10, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  NBC’s curse continues. NBC:  The network really thought it had something with the dating show READY FOR LOVE, promoting it like crazy and clearing Tuesdays of Go On, The New Normal and Smash so it could pair 2-hour episodes with THE VOICE.  But last night’s blah result was a 1.6, and as Mitch Metcalf […]

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