NETWORK FINALS:  THE YEAR: 2016 dropped 0.1 in final numbers, so it now has to share the highest-rated show of the night title with reruns of SHREK THE HALLS and NCIS.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  History’s CURSE OF OAK ISLAND was […]

        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, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  LAST MAN STANDING gained 0.1 in final numbers, and DYNASTY lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.81/0.55, and the COLLEGE FOOTBALL game on ESPN2 was at 0.31.  A&E’s LIVE PD ticked up to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  MENTAL SAMURAI and 1969 lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS (UPDATE #2): Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals has been correctly titled and added to the charts below in the #1 spot.  [TNT earned 3.634 […]

  Fans of HANNIBAL shouldn’t get too excited about its preliminary 0.8 series finale rating.  NFL PRESEASON coverage made these early numbers all but worthless, with preemptions that included ABC in Cleveland (CLE-TB) and Baltimore (WAS-BAL), NBC in New York (NYJ-NYG) and Washington DC (WAS-BAL), and FOX in Chicago (CHI-CIN) and Minneapolis (MIN-DAL).  We’ll look […]

  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): College football took up 6 of the top 7 slots on Saturday cable, with more farther down the list, ranging from 0.12 for a late ESPN2 game to 1.80 for the mother network’s primetime coverage.  […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE dropped 0.11 to 0.54, and THE ROOKIE: FEDS was down 0.04 to 0.30. CBS:  FBI gained 0.03 to 0.57, FBI: INTERNATIONAL slipped 0.02 to 0.46, and FBI: MOST WANTED was down 0.02 to 0.45. NBC:  THE VOICE ticked up to 0.70, LA BREA lost 0.05 to 0.44, and […]

  Election coverage, by its nature, is live programming, and thus subject to adjustment in final numbers.  Currently NBC leads the night at 1.4, with ABC at 1.3 and CBS at 0.9.  In addition, while FOX and CW aired scripted programming, many of their local stations preempted or interrupted the shows for election updates, so […]