An easy win for NBC. 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 comparisons […]

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). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 27 and Sunday September 28, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 4 Sunday 8.2 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (1pm: TEN-IND CAR-BAL MIA-OAK […]

NOTE: The fast-affiliate based nationals below include significant local news pre-emptions in major markets. Accurate broadcast ratings for Sunday (as well as Sunday cable ratings) will be available Tuesday morning. 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 […]

> There are few opportunities left to tune in to NBC and bask in the glory of the network that used to be.  One that remains, though, is 30 ROCK, postponed this season to winter due to Tina Fey’s pregnancy but now back on Thursday nights. WHERE WE LEFT OFF:  Wacky, smart, mildly surreal, wickedly […]

  Michael Myers and Freddie Kreuger have nothing on THE KILLING, a series that seems to be perpetually death-defying.  After the 2-season search for the killer of Rosie Larsen, with a conclusion that seemed to satisfy no one, and then a third season that generated little excitement, AMC canceled The Killing… but it’s back.  Netflix […]

> Last night, viewers took a stand against the hatred of teenage daughters. FOX:  I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER, in its 2d airing (and first against new episodes on ABC) slumped to a 2.1 rating, losing more than a third of X FACTOR‘s lead-in 3.3.  The Teenage Daughter numbers may continue to be erratic, because […]

  On the night before Thanksgiving, only 2 networks aired regular programming. 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 […]