NOTE TO READERS:  Beginning with the Monday cable post this afternoon, and for the rest of the week, charts will be posted as usual, but text (and responses to Comments) will be much delayed if they appear at all, due to our Sundance coverage. NETWORK FINALS:  CBS’s AFC CHAMPIONSHIP game adjusted to […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The midseason lineup began with the premiere of JUDGE STEVE HARVEY at 0.73.  ABBOTT ELEMENTARY had its official premiere at 0.64, up a tick from its preview airing in December.  The season premiere of BLACK-ISH was at 0.53, close to last season’s 0.6 premiere.  QUEENS aired for the first time since […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  MIXED-ISH lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  CNN’s DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DEBATE led Tuesday cable at 1.50/2.01/8.6M, down 0.6 from the last debate on ABC, with Fox News’s HANNITY at 0.27/0.46/3.1M, and MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW at […]

  The NFL returned, but with an asterisk. 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 and comparisons […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Sports adjustments put the PGA CHAMPIONSHIP on CBS at 0.5, the NHL game on NBC at 0.3, and PBC Boxing on FOX at 0.2.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports was firmly in control of Saturday cable.  There were NBA […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) NFL Week 2.  The 4:30 game on CBS was the big winner on yesterday’s NFL coverage (17.8 household rating […]

  SHADES OF BLUE ended its run. 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 and comparisons follow […]

  THIS IS US returned bigger than ever. 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 and comparisons […]