A big sigh of relief at NBC as The Voice returned to a 4+ rating with adults 18-49 last night. There might be some inflation due to pre-emptions in Charlotte for Monday Night Football, but if NBC goes down in the official nationals it would only be a tenth of rating point. That would still be a 3.7 […]
The night’s brightest sign of life was for a summer premiere. 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). […]
NOTE: This was another night where half a dozen NFL exhibition football games inflated the preliminary ratings, making week-to-week comparisons pointless. We’ll hold our analysis for our Network Update post on Monday afternoon. Tonight’s major event is the season finale of POWER on Starz. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below […]
Read All Our Fall Pilot Reports here. DADS: Tuesday 8PM on FOX – Change the Channel It’s hard to believe that the comedy executives at FOX, who have put such high-quality shows as New Girl, The Mindy Project and Raising Hope on the air in recent years, not to mention the upcoming and very […]
At this late point in the network summer, it wouldn’t make sense to expect much change from the norm. ABC: The move of MISTRESSES to 9PM had only mild effect, as the show climbed 0.1 to 1.0. That was below the 1.1 for the rerun SHARK TANK that preceded it. NBC: With less competition […]
Ratings for Saturday’s Netherlands vs Costa Rica match on ESPN have been added to the chart below. Nothing spectacular: ranking #11 out of 59 matches to date, with demographic ratings slightly below the Knockout Stage averages for 2014 (also noted in the table below). Come back later for ratings for yesterday’s ponderous loss of Brazil […]
In about a year, the reboot of the network late-night talk shows will be complete, now that David Letterman, cranky genius of the format, has announced that sometime in 2015 he’ll be retiring. With Jimmy Kimmel’s move to 11:35PM and the recent ascensions of Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, it will be the first […]
BROADCAST FINALS: ABC: The season premiere of THE GOLDBERGS was at 0.70, down a tenth from last fall’s premiere. THE WONDER YEARS premiered very compatibly at 0.67. The live season premiere of THE CONNERS was at 0.65, down from 0.9 for last year’s live premiere. The season premiere of HOME ECONOMICS was at 0.41, […]