Not even the NBA Finals could hold its own this low-watched summer. ABC:  Thanks to the NBA FINALS GAME 1, ABC was up 267% for the night versus the same Thursday last year, but that’s apples and oranges.  A more meaningful comparison is Thursday, June 14, 2012, which also featured an NBA Finals game.  Last […]

  FRIDAY STARZ:  Things got even worse for MAGIC CITY, with under 350K total viewers and an 18-49 number that had to be rounded up to reach 0.1.  It’s hard to imagine Starz ordering a third season, unless there are non-financial reasons. SYFY:  CONTINUUM was down 30% in total viewers to 1M, and down 0.1 […]

  HBO’s Aaron Sorkin opus THE NEWSROOM fared well in its Season 2 premiere last night, drawing 2.2M total viewers (plus another 400K for the late-night re-airing).  Demo info won’t be available until tomorrow, but that should translate into a solid 0.9-1.0 in 18-49s.  The total viewer number isn’t quite a series record–the Season 1 […]

  FRIDAY STARZ:  The pay-TV network had plenty of announcements at its TCA press tour session, including a renewal for its pirate series Black Sails before the show has even aired, but there wasn’t a word of comfort for MAGIC CITY, which is just 2 weeks from its Season 2 conclusion.  The show has been […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 17 and Sunday August 18, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   NASCAR was off a bit from last year but still a very viable 3.0 rating. […]

  The first Thursday BIG BROTHER of the season won the night. 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 […]

Sunday ratings last night, last year and last week.  In the table below, live sports programming (the entire evening on NC and the 7 pm hours on CBS and FOX) has been adjusted to our estimates of the eventual official national ratings, available Tuesday morning after West Coast viewing has been properly counted.   The Sunday […]

  The first back order of the 2013-14 TV season… is a renewal. SLEEPY HOLLOW was only intended to run half a season this year, splitting the Monday 9PM timeslot with the return of The Following, and since it’s been a big success, with three consecutive ratings at a 3 or higher in 18-49s and […]