> When you’re NBC, even a 1.8 rating can look good. NBC:  PARKS & RECREATION returned to the schedule last night in the 9:30PM slot, with a 1.8 that was far better than the 1.2-1.5 that Up All Night had been getting there.  Parks held 80% of its lead-in from THE OFFICE (which tied last […]

NBC led the broadcast networks last night with a 1.6 Adult 18-49 rating from 7-11 pm in the preliminary fast nationals, although ESPN’s coverage of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals and HBO’s Game of Thrones are certain to pull ahead when the cable ratings are available tomorrow morning.  NBC started relatively slowly with Dateline at […]

Week 39 of the broadcast season (June 11-17) was won handily by ABC with a 3.17 Adult 18-49 rating in prime time, thanks to three high-rated NBA Finals games (Game 1 on Tuesday earned a 6.9 rating, Game 2 on Thursday built to a 7.1, and Game 3 on Sunday came in at a relatively […]

  HBO announced today that its new Aaron Sorkin series THE NEWSROOM has been renewed for a 2d season, and that TRUE BLOOD will be back for Season 6.  Newsroom is the most talked-about new show of the summer, and True Blood is the network’s biggest hit, so neither of these decisions was in any […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 19 through Sunday August 25, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K 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 for the same […]

A night, sadly, for news shows. NBC:  We don’t know at this time what the ratings have been for the 24-hour cable news networks that have been covering the Aurora shootings non-stop since Thursday night.  Friday evening, the broadcast networks joined the coverage, and NBC devoted 2 primetime hours of DATELINE to the story, with about […]

Note: Local broadcast coverage of the ESPN NFL Monday Night Football doubleheader impacted the fast-affiliate nationals below. ABC numbers are inflated slightly by local pre-emptions in Houston for the early game and San Francisco-Oakland for the late game. NBC numbers inflated slightly by a pre-emption in New Orleans for the early game. In Denver, the […]

NBC  averaged almost a 10.5 Adult 18-49 rating in prime time the week of July 30-August 5, a cool 814% improvement over the same early-August week a year ago.  NBC deftly kept the weekly rating in double digits by excluding the relatively low-rated half hours Friday at 8:00, Saturday at 8:00, and Sunday at 7:00. […]