A down night for both of Tuesday’s summer hits. 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). […]

Based on fast nationals for Friday-Sunday and official national ratings for Monday-Thursday, the week of July 16-22 looks like ABC and FOX in a tie for first place with CBS and NBC several notches below, fighting to stay out of fourth place. ABC challenged FOX for first place this week (both networks around a 1.44/1.45 […]

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). ###

A very good night on NBC last night for the final Wednesday from London, a preliminary 9.2 rating with Adults 18-49 in prime time.  The number will easily rise to a 9.5 in the official nationals, blowing away the previous high for this night in recent Summer Olympics (8.7 from Athens in 2004).  The night […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday May 7 and Sunday May 8, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. Triple Crown: Kentucky Derby Saturday 3.92 rating […]

A very interesting and competitive night of reality television last night. FOX can claim they won the night with a 3.3 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8-10 pm with the season premiere of The X Factor.  FOX will not go out of its way to compare the second season premiere to last year’s X Factor debut (4.4 rating […]

  The Sunday cable numbers will mostly be released tomorrow, but Showtime was in an understandable hurry to get out the fast news about last night’s numbers. In total audience (the 18-49 demo numbers are still in process), Showtime had its biggest Sunday ever.  HOMELAND, understandably sparked by last week’s Emmy triumph, had its highest-rated […]

After two atypical Tuesdays (Election Night and a two-hour Voice the week before), NBC has come back down to a 2.6 rating with adults 18-49 on Tuesday (below the 3.3 Tuesday average so far this season), just slightly ahead of CBS (last night’s 2.5 on CBS virtually matches the 2.6 Tuesday average so far this season).  The […]