ABC fared best on a night with some downturns. 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). Ratings analysis […]

>An incredibly quiet final Tuesday of 2011 last night on the broadcast networks, with CBS’s 1.4 rating leading the pack.  Last year on this night, NBC had an incredible performance from a rescheduled Sunday Night Football game, which was moved to Tuesday because of a roof collapse (from heavy snow) in Indianapolis.       […]

February Sweeps stunts by NBC and CBS both fail. NBC:  The network aggressively promoted last night’s SVU because it featured Mike Tyson as a guest star, but the show dropped 0.2 to 1.5, in 4th place for its hour.  CHICAGO FIRE had an even steeper fall, down 0.3 to 1.8, but that was enough to […]

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:  There were a significant adjustment (to the next tenth) for SHARK TANK.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.53/0.36 compared to last week’s 0.51/0.38, and MYSTERY OF BLIND FROG RANCH was steady at 0.16.  ESPN’s NBA […]

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). ###

> Showtime announced today the return of 2 of its signature dramas:  both DEXTER and HOMELAND will begin their new seasons on Sunday, September 30. Not coincidentally, this is exactly 1 week after the year’s Emmy Awards on September 23, at which Showtime will be hoping that both shows–but particularly the dazzling and widely-acclaimed Homeland–will […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 13 and Sunday December 14, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 15 Sunday 12.3 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly DEN-SD MIA-NE HOU-IND […]