Special edition of SKEDBALL, a preview of the 11/28-12/4 weekly report with data through THU 12/1. ###

  Another all but empty summer Friday. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow […]

> See A Word About Busted Pilots We round out our survey of some of the more notable busted pilots of the season with the distinctive POE, produced by Warner Bros Television for ABC and written by Chris Hollier (a former writer for Kyle XY).  Unfortunately, this pilot stands for the proposition that “distinctive” doesn’t […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Aside from sports, Christmas Night was a festival of reruns. ABC:  The broadcaster aired 3 of the holiday’s 5 games at 1.49/1.07/0.52. NBC:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 4.20, up 0.27 from last week’s game.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN aired all of the NBA quintuple-header […]

  NOTE:  It was another night of NFL preseason pre-emptions, so don’t get too excited about the seeming boosts for BOSTON EMS and HANNIBAL.  We’ll take a closer look at the Saturday numbers in our network update report on Tuesday. A few specials dot tonight’s network line-up, with the TEEN CHOICE AWARDS on FOX, and […]

> Michael Scott is really gone.  Technically, that’s been true since a few episodes before the end of THE OFFICE‘s last season, but with tonight’s season premiere, Office 2.0, the most well-publicized reboot of the new season, began to tell us what it’s going to be.   Which is, for now at least, a somewhat jarring […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday January 16 through Sunday January 22, 2023. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday December 31, 2018 through Sunday January 6, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the […]