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). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 live+same day ratings […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE MASKED SINGER gained 0.1 in final numbers, and SEAL TEAM lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Cable news was led by Fox News’s SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRET BAIER at 0.64/0.95/5.5M, with CNN’s CUOMO PRIME TIME at 0.43/0.61/2.6M, […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The broadcast piece of the NBA DRAFT was at 0.44, up 0.05 from 2022. CBS:  Reruns at 0.25/0.20/0.19/0.14. NBC:  THE BLACKLIST returned from an off-week down 0.04 to 0.21.  It was followed by reruns at 0.16/0.14. FOX:  A TMZ INVESTIGATES special at 0.21 was followed by a rerun at 0.14. CW:  […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 24-25, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size.   For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, September […]

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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Due to football adjustment, DANCING WITH THE STARS lost 0.1 in final numbers, TO TELL THE TRUTH dropped 0.2, and CW’s reruns of SUPERGIRL and WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY were down 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY […]

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The WOMENS WORLD CUP FINALS adjusted up 0.6 to 7.0 in final numbers.  The primetime NASCAR telecast turned out to be a very long rain delay, and it lost 0.1 to 0.7.  In addition, BIG BROTHER and CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD received 0.1 bumps. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sunday marked the start of Shark Week, Discovery’s favorite […]