Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 5 through Sunday October 11, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL gave a jolt to Sunday TV. 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). […]

>American Idol edged down again this week, but the rate of decline is slowing.  The Wednesday edition appears to be locking in on a 5 rating or just below.  Meanwhile, ABC bounced back from last week and is approaching last year’s pace.  CBS, in contrast, is way off last year’s numbers.  NBC continues to struggle […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE BIG BANG THEORY, THE BLACKLIST and AMERICAN IDOL all gained 0.1 in final numbers.  An additional note:  quarter-hour numbers for AMERICAN CRIME reveal a somewhat troubling steady decline throughout the hour:  2.3/2.1/1.9/1.8.  The drop at 10:15PM makes sense because some SCANDAL fans who tried it out would have decided to exit, […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 46: November 7-13, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY dropped 0.14 to 0.40.  The series finale of BLACK-ISH fell 0.06 to 0.37, with a post-show special at 0.26.  TO TELL THE TRUTH was down 0.04 to 0.27. CBS:  FBI lost 0.07 to 0.56, FBI: INTERNATIONAL ticked down to 0.53, and FBI: MOST WANTED was down 0.06 to […]

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). Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  The AFC NFL WILD CARD game on CBS adjusted up to 10.1 in final numbers.  Elsewhere, the 8:30PM BLACKISH rerun lost 0.1. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN simulcast the other Saturday NFL WILD CARD game with ABC, and the ESPN piece of it was at […]