BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.34/0.35/0.25. CBS:  Reruns at 0.38/0.19/0.19/0.17. NBC:  A NASCAR race at 0.43. FOX:  A USFL game at 0.13. CW:  Reruns at 0.04/0.02/0.03/0.02. TELEMUNDO:  Movies at 0.21/0.12. UNIVISION:  A COPA ORA match at 0.85.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The BET AWARDS got the Paramount “roadblock” […]

> Sweeps! FOX:  AMERICAN IDOL was steady with last Thursday at 5.4, which meant it was again down around 30% from last year and again saw its first half-hour lose to CBS’s Big Bang Theory.  THE FINDER, airing against original episodes on every network this week, lost most of last week’s gains and fell to […]

The Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays will cause delays for daily national ratings (cable and broadcast finals) for a few weeks.  This is how the ratings should roll out over the holiday period.  We will update this schedule if anything changes.  (All times Pacific.) Last Week of December Thursday Dec 24 nationals rescheduled to Monday Dec 28 at […]

> GLEE looks at a shark and considers taking a jump. FOX:  Despite perhaps the most melodramatic midseason finale of any “comedy’ in TV history (a suicide attempt, an as-yet unexplained pregnancy, and a dead-or-not-dead? cliffhanger), GLEE was up only 0.1 from last week’s season low.  The show won’t air again until mid-April.  NEW GIRL […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

> FOX’s 4-sitcom Tuesday excited no one. FOX:  I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER and BREAKING IN made unimpressive returns to the schedule.  Daughter could claim a decent retention of its RAISING HOPE lead-in, and it also won the head-to-head sitcom battle at 8:30PM–but really there’s nothing good about a 1.6 premiere.  Breaking In had less […]

  Welcome to summer network TV. 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 […]

> This morning we anticipated that the season finale of THE WALKING DEAD on AMC would outrate anything on network television last night, but that didn’t do justice to Dead‘s accomplishment.  In the finale’s initial airing (it was repeated later in the evening), it broke Dead‘s own record as the highest-rated cable television drama ever, […]