It looks like NBC suffered its first Sunday defeat of the new season.  The Sunday Night Football game certainly out-rated Game 4 of the World Series, but FOX built a commanding lead in the 7 pm hour alone with the controversial (and widely-viewed) end of the New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys NFL game.  ABC has stabilized […]

>The top two programs on cable this week aired on Sunday against the not-what-it-used-to-be but still very big Academy Awards on ABC.  Most notable was Walking Dead on AMC at 9:00 pm, just when the awards ceremony was getting rolling.  Facing the huge entertainment special, Walking Dead actually was up over last week, from a […]

  BIG BROTHER’s night. 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 and comparisons follow the […]

  Note that afternoon golf on CBS pushed 21 minutes into primetime, so the network’s preliminary ratings are likely to adjust in finals. 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 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 14 and Sunday March 15, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. College Basketball Saturday 1.55 rating CBS 1:00 pm Big Ten Semifinal: Purdue vs #6-Wisconsin 1.90 rating CBS 3:30 […]

  Nothing on network TV managed a rating over 0.6. 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 […]

  Mondays seem to be settling into place. 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 […]

  Night 3 of the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION was up slightly from Tuesday’s preliminary numbers at 0.3/0.3/0.3, but a bit below last week’s parallel night for the Democrats (0.3/0.3/0.4).  The disparity was more pronounced in aggregate 2+ ratings for the 3 networks, where last night was at 4.9M (down 500K from Tuesday) and the Democratic […]