None of the networks had very much to complain about last night, as the fall TV season officially got under way. CBS: THE BIG BANG THEORY handily won the 8PM showdown with episodes at 5.3/5.4, comparable with the 5.3/5.8 it had in preliminary numbers (on Thursday) last fall, although both of those episodes went […]
ESPN’s coverage of Major League Baseball’s (actually State Farm’s) Home Run Derby averaged a 2.7 rating with Adults 18-49, making it the top cable program in the past seven days and the top program on any network Monday night (edging FOX’s Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef, both at a 2.5 rating in the official nationals for last night). This is up […]
Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 3-4, 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, September […]
NBC won a painful Sunday night with a 1.2 preliminary Adult 18-49 rating from 7-11 pm. The U.S. Olympic Trials at 7 pm, featuring track and field from Eugene, Oregon, averaged a 1.2 rating, starting at a 1.0 in the 7:00 half hour and building to a 1.4 at 7:30. The comparable telecast on July […]
A mixed bag of a 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 […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: The season finale of AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS was at 0.50, down 0.21 from last week (which had an NBA Playoffs boost) and down a tenth from 2021. The season finale of AMERICAN IDOL was at 0.76, up a tenth from last week and down 0.12 from last season. CBS: The […]
NETWORK FINALS: MOM gained 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: Two smackdowns topped Thursday cable, but it was USA’s WWE match that prevailed, down a tenth to 0.75 (and followed by a steady 0.39 for COLONY). Wrestling edged out CNN’s coverage of the PBS DEMOCRATIC DEBATE […]
NETWORK FINALS: The BLACK-ISH and HELL’S KITCHEN reruns lost 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: The Kamala Harris announcement put cable news at the top on Tuesday, with Fox News’s HANNITY at 0.44/0.69/4.6M, CNN’s SITUATION ROOM at 0.32/0.45/2M, and […]