>The return of Dancing to Tuesday brought ABC back above a 2 rating and into second place, but far below the lofty 3.4 rating the network scored on this night a year ago.  Steady as always, CBS held on to first place for the night.  Dancing‘s recap and results shows did damage NBC, which sunk […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CHICAGO FIRE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while NANCY DREW lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader led Wednesday cable at 0.60/0.57.  FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY: 1984 gained 0.03 to 0.49.  On Comedy Central, SOUTH PARK […]

NBC changed format a bit Sunday night and aired Michael Phelps: America’s Golden Champion from 7-8 pm, followed by traditional Olympic coverage from 8 pm-midnight, including the men’s 100M dash, gymnastics individual apparatus finals, and beach volleyball.  The night started slowly, as it usually does, with a 5.5 Adult 18-49 rating in the 7:00 half hour, building […]

  The movement was mostly downward. 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 […]

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 21: May 17-23, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, ABC’s numbers dropped after NFL adjustment, THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT by 0.1 and 2017 IN MEMORIAM by 0.2.  Elsewhere, POPSTAR’S BEST OF 2017 lost 0.1, making for a dismal 0.1/0.1 night at CW.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE […]

  Back-to-back episodes of THE MASKED SINGER had different results. 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). […]

Presidential Election coverage on the combined seven major networks (the four broadcast networks plus CNN, Fox News Channel and MNSBC) averaged just over 61 million people (two years or older) in an average minute of prime time between 8 and 11 pm ET Tuesday 11.8.2016, above the incumbent re-election years of 2004 and 2012 (each under […]