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EARLY SUNDAY CABLE RATINGS: “Mad Men” Up, “Devious Maids” Soft, Wallenda Wins

Posted June 24, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Cable ratings will be fragmentary until tomorrow, but here are some numbers worth noting: MAD MEN‘s Season 6 finale was, despite some viewers’ misgivings about this season, the show’s highest-rated finale ever, with 2.7M total viewers.  (AMC didn’t release 18-49 numbers, but Mad Men has always skewed old.)  That was 200,000 more viewers than […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 2.25.2017

Posted February 28, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were no adjustments from the Saturday preliminary ratings.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN had 3 COLLEGE BASKETBALL games in the Saturday cable Top 10, led by UCLA vs. Arizona at 0.65.  (Note that HBO, as is its practice, […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 6.17-18.2017

Posted June 20, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday June 17-18, 2017.  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, June 18-19, […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY MONDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.7.2019

Posted January 8, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

  A pair of premieres. 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 […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings

Posted April 1, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

The NCAA men’s basketball championship tournament rolled on Sunday with two games to select the last Final Four spots.  The two games averaged 19% higher household ratings than last year in the 56 local markets measured by Nielsen (covering 70% of the country).  The second game at 5:00 Sunday almost hit the magic 10.0 rating […]

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THE SKED NETWORK SCORECARD – 11/12/13

Posted November 13, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Agents of SHIELD has lost its superpowers. ABC;  One might reasonably have expected AGENTS OF SHIELD to benefit from the arrival of the blockbuster new Thor movie in theatres last weekend (the series is even planning a spin-off episode next week, although without any of the movie’s stars).  But instead, SHIELD plunged 0.3 to […]

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The Sked: Saturday Network Scorecard 3.28.2020

Posted March 29, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SUNDAY SCORECARD – 5/25/14

Posted May 28, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only change from preliminary numbers was a 0.1 gain for the NASCAR race on FOX. SATURDAY CABLE:  On BBC America, ORPHAN BLACK was up very slightly to 0.25, with follow-up IN THE FLESH barely registering at 0.03.  ESPN dominated the night with a 2.7 for its NBA PLAYOFFS game. SUNDAY CABLE:  […]

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