Thursday ratings: last night, last year and last week.  

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was at 2.54.  NBC’s USFL game was at 0.37.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.37.  On CW, MASTERS OF ILLUSION ticked down to 0.03, and TOTALLY WEIRD & FUNNY was also down a tick to 0.03.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On ESPN, […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 15-16, 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, […]

      NETWORK FINALS:   MOM lost 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 3.1, down 3.3 from last week’s game.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV’s JERSEY SHORE led Thursday cable at 0.66, steady with last week, and lead-out FLORIBAMA SHORE […]

  Another quiet Friday on the networks. 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 follows […]

  Craig Ferguson is maintaining that his decision to leave CBS and THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON in December is absolutely, entirely, utterly, completely, totally unrelated to the network’s recent decision to hand David Letterman’s slot to Stephen Colbert when Letterman steps down next year.  No, truly, he never had any interest in […]

  BIG BROTHER had no trouble blowing away a night filled with reruns. 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 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Friday December 27, Saturday December 28 and Sunday December 29, 2013. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   College Football Early Bowls Friday 1.6 rating ESPN 2:30 Military Bowl Marshall […]