Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday July 15 through Sunday July 21, 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 same […]

NBC could have used Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday rather than Monday.  The 2.0 rating the concluding game generated Monday would have doubled last night’s rating for the regular NBC Wednesday line-up (instead of bumping a much higher-rated America’s Got Talent out of its pattern Monday night).  In any case, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE coverage was at 0.83/0.82/0.78, compared to last week’s 0.75/0.75/0.73.  On VH1, LOVE & HIP-HOP dipped 0.06 to 0.81, GIRLS CRUISE ticked up […]

Two networks competed last night, FOX and NBC, each ending with a preliminary 2.2 Adult 18-49 rating in prime time. FOX‘s Gordon Ramsay cooking combo of Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef each averaged a 2.2 rating.  The Tuesday tracks for the reality pairing since June 5: Hell’s Kitchen (2.1– 2.2– 2.2– 2.2) and MasterChef (2.2– 2.1– 2.1– 2.2).  It doesn’t get more consistent than […]

Another Sunday with Game of Thrones probably beating everything on broadcast TV. CBS:  BIG BROTHER was the highest-rated show on the networks last night, with a 2.2 that was about 10% below the show’s Sunday premiere last year.  That wasn’t enough to give CBS the nightly win, because nothing else on the schedule was higher […]

  The regular season NFL roared back to life. 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 […]

The top cable programs of the week that competed against the early nights of the London Summer Olympics (True Blood on HBO Sunday, Keeping Up with the Kardashians on E! Sunday, VH1’s Love and Hip Hop Atlanta on Monday) were close to their normal levels, with the Kardashians slightly above normal.  Even with a 10 or 11 rating on a broadcast network, […]

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