Post-Sweeps malaise. NBC:  Cleveland must be feeling pretty good about its preemptions last night, as the 9-11PM regular network schedule averaged under a 1.0 rating, with 0.9s for a new 1600 PENN and rerun SVU, and a 1.0 for an OFFICE rerun.  COMMUNITY held even at 1.1 at 8PM, followed by 0.9 for a PARKS […]

  NOTE TO READERS:  Due to our upcoming Sundance Film Festival coverage, ratings posts for the rest of this week will largely be charts without text.  In addition, we may not be able to respond promptly to reader requests for specific ratings in the Comments. NETWORK UPDATE:  UFC FIGHT NIGHT gained 0.1 to 1.2 in […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 12 through Sunday September 13, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the comparable weekend last year. NFL: Week 1 […]

  Welcome to Upfronts week, when the broadcast networks (or what’s left of them) announce their Fall schedules and attempt to generate billions of dollars worth of excitement from advertisers.  It’s harder than ever to authoritatively analyze the thought process that goes into a broadcaster’s cancellation, renewal and pick-up decisions, because network ad revenues directly […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC;  THE BACHELORETTE slipped 0.02 to 0.72, and CLAIM TO FAME was up 0.02 to 0.39. CBS:  Reruns at 0.28/0.26/0.24/0.25. NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR gained 0.02 to 0.37, followed by a WEAKEST LINK rerun at 0.30. FOX:  Returning from a rerun week, DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS dropped 0.06 to 0.27, and BEAT […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 27-28, 2018.  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, October 28-29, […]

>American Idol kept FOX on top in the first Wednesday of the May Sweep, despite continued declines from last year.  CBS and ABC trail with fairly respectable nights (CBS down a couple of tenths from last year and ABC up three tenths from the same night last year).  NBC remains stuck in a weak fourth […]

  Just in case THE SIMPSONS hadn’t made enough billions for 20th Century Fox Television (the in-house production studio of FOX network), its producers and the larger corporate entity, today the show closed a deal with the fledgling FXX cable network to sell the exclusive cable rights there, for a term reportedly of 8-10 years, […]