Lots of small drops. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun of THE CONNERS at 0.31, THE GOLDBERGS was steady at 0.34, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY gained 0.08 to 0.53, NOT DEAD YET dropped 0.05 to 0.26, and A MILLION LITTLE THINGS held at 0.21. CBS:  SURVIVOR remained at 0.71.  Following a rerun at 0.21, TRUE LIES held at 0.23. NBC:  […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The ABC COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted up to 1.1, and FOX’s went to 0.7.  Elsewhere, the AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR rerun gained 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  All but one of Saturday’s Top 10 were COLLEGE FOOTBALL-related, with ESPN’s primetime game the leader by far at 2.77 (the evening’s earlier game was at 1.11, and […]

  Due to live sports, there may be adjustments ahead for CBS, NBC and FOX. 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 […]

>Put ABC’s Suburgatory in the conditional win column, while Revenge is on a watch list to see where it settles.  FOX’s The X Factor suffered a decline in week two, but the Simon Cowell performance show still powered FOX to a victory on the second Wednesday of the season.  CBS was down a bit at […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday March 7 and Sunday March 8, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. College Basketball Saturday 0.90 rating CBS 12:00 pm Syracuse at North Carolina State 1.83 rating CBS 2:00 pm […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday January 27-28, 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, January 28-29, […]

UPDATE at 3:40 pm PT: Fast nationals for Monday 12.28.2015 scheduled for release at 5:00 pm PT (8:00 pm ET), an unusually late hour for a data release. But this has been a most unusual day. UPDATE at 2:25 pm PT: Next update at 3:30 pm PT.  Around that time, Nielsen will either announce a data […]