NETWORK FINALS:  THIS IS US and THE GIFTED gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On USA, WWE SMACKDOWN rose 0.12 to 0.81, and REAL COUNTRY was up 0.04 to 0.21.  On History, CURSE OF OAK ISLAND gained […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After reruns at 0.29/0.53, COLLEGE FOOTBALL was at 1.90. CBS:  BIG BROTHER was hit hard by the sports competition, down 0.26 to 0.54.  Reruns took up the rest of the night at 0.31/0.18/0.17. NBC:  Reruns at 0.26/0.28/0.22 FOX:  FIGHT NIGHT at 0.11 was followed by reruns at 0.12/0.16. CW:  Reruns at […]

  NOTE:  Due to last Tuesday’s Supreme Court announcement and other preemptions, many comparisons are to prior weeks. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted up to 2.7 in final numbers, and FOX’s game adjusted to 1.0.  In addition, the 9PM 48 HOURS gained 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s US OPEN coverage and its morning COLLEGE GAMEDAY show […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s run of MONSTERS UNIVERSITY and CBS’s rerun of NCIS: NEW ORLEANS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It appears that HBO mistakenly listed the premiere of Beyonce’s LEMONADE as a rerun, which is why it […]

  STALKER:  Wednesday 10PM on CBS starting October 1 – Change the Channel PLAYERS:  Series creator Kevin Williamson, of The Following, The Vampire Diaries and Scream fame.  Stars Maggie Q and Dylan McDermott, and a supporting cast that includes Victor Rasuk, Mariana Klaveno and Elisabeth Rohm (the latter added in a recasting after the pilot […]

> Don’t get too attached to those CG dinosaurs. FOX:  TERRA NOVA barely bothers with those creatures these days anyway, being more concerned with dull conspiracies among humans (points to anyone who can figure out what the “time fracture” means), and it may not be showing anything for much longer.  With just a few episodes […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday May 19-20, 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, May 20-21, […]