BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.22/0.16/0.16. CBS:  The FBI franchise included the mothership down 0.03 to 0.46, FBI: INTERNATIONAL down 0.09 to 0.40, and FBI: MOST WANTED down 0.08 to 0.38. NBC:  NIGHT COURT fell 0.11 to 0.29, and AMERICAN AUTO was down 0.02 to 0.21.  The season premiere of THE WALL was at […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday August 6-7, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K 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, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE SUPER BOWL adjusted to 31.0, down 2.4 from 2018’s final number.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As usual, there were few alternatives on Super Bowl Sunday.  Animal Planet’s PUPPY BOWL fell a sharp 0.39 from last year’s edition to […]

> Baseball threw FOX–sorry–a curveball, but there was plenty of bad news for everyone last night. FOX:  Since the playoff game lasted until 8:52PM eastern time, it isn’t clear why FOX didn’t just fill in the 8 minutes left in the hour and go straight to House at 9PM.  But for whatever reason, they ran […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The MASKED SINGER after-show lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV’s THE CHALLENGE led Wednesday cable, down 0.06 to 0.49, and RIDICULOUSNESS ticked up to 0.13.  On Bravo, REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS dropped 0.09 to […]

  The JEOPARDY finale dipped a bit. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Friday cable, up 0.04 to 0.48, with LIVE PD: WANTED steady at 0.37, and the lead-in hour up a tick to 0.22.  […]

  A fairly typical 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 follows the chart. CBS:  MACGYVER […]