NETWORK UPDATE:  20/20 lost 0.1 and the rerun of HAWAII 5-0 gained the same in final numbers. CABLE RATINGS:  It was a tremendous day and night for Disney Channel, which had 4 of Friday’s top cable shows.  TEEN BEACH 2 led the way with 1.03–down a bit from the 1.2 for the original 2013 TEEN BEACH, but […]

  A good night for CBS. 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 follows the […]

  CBS’s experiment with a May sweeps miniseries didn’t start well. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Game 1 of the NBA FINALS was at 3.54, down 0.09 from last year’s Game 1. CBS:  Reruns at 0.32/0.27/0.19/0.19. NBC:  THE BLACKLIST moved into its endgame position with a shift to Thursdays, where its episodes were at 0.24/0.20 compared to Sunday’s 0.19.  A rerun followed at 0.16. FOX:  Reruns at […]

> The news was mostly good for the networks last night–except for the one show whose news was fatal. FOX:  If anything, FOX seems to have been the victim of its own hype this fall.  Like The X-Factor, TERRA NOVA is looking like a solid hit–just not the blockbuster the network foretold.  Its 100% retention […]

NBC won Saturday night with a 1.5 preliminary Adults 18-49 rating (subject to upward revision due to the live broadcast feed to the west coast).  Coverage of the third round of the U.S. Open golf championship from Olympic Club in San Francisco earned a 1.5 preliminary rating from 8-10 pm and a 1.6 rating from […]

We’ve reached the broadcast networks’ Upfront Week… which used to be a lot more central to our television lives than it is now.  Ratings everywhere are down, and there’s no reason to think they’ve hit bottom, which has caused seismic changes in the ways networks make scheduling decisions.  Among other things, with revenues from on-air […]

  SQUIRREL!  NBC, and its media enablers, will do their best to focus discussion of the WINTER OLYMPICS ratings on total viewers, daytime and online numbers, and–SQUIRREL!–anything other than the evident fact that the Games didn’t justify a cost that probably exceeded $1 billion, between rights ($775M alone) and production costs over the 18 days of […]