NETWORK FINALS:  Note that the WE DAY special must have run without commercials, and thus it wasn’t included in Nielsen’s final ratings.  As expected, there were a slew of adjustments for the night, mostly attributable to NFL PRESEASON games.  The following shows dropped 0.2 from their preliminary ratings:  the reruns of […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Friday June 18, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday April 1-2, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K 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, April 2-3, […]

  The returnees were quiet. 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 follow […]

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 7: February 8-14, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 2.0.  Note that the FOX game was considered afternoon and not primetime programming by Nielsen, and therefore isn’t on the chart, but its adjusted rating (from 7:35PM) was 0.9.  Also, the NATIONAL DOG SHOW gained 0.1.  An additional note:  our fast nationals chart […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AGENTS OF SHIELD gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s afternoon MASTERS TOURNAMENT coverage topped Friday cable at 0.73, with primetime coverage at 0.32.  A&E’s LIVE PD returned from a rerun week at 0.60.  On Discovery, […]

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). Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on […]