A quiet night on the networks. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was easily the highest rated show of the night, but its 2.2 was its lowest rated Tuesday airing ever, down 0.2 from last week and 0.3 from the parallel night last year. FOX:  SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE slipped 0.1 to 1.2. ABC:  […]

Through Sunday and 52 games, the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament on CBS and three Turner networks (TNT, TBS and TruTV) is combining for over 11.6 million viewers 2+ live+same day in an average minute, up +10% from last year and up +6% from the 2012-2016 average to a recent high, according to Nielsen television ratings. CBS […]

Tuesday ratings last night, last year and last week.  President Obama’s address on Syria interrupted network schedules to varying degrees at 9 pm ET last night, with NBC sliding America’s Got Talent a little over 15 minutes, while CBS was closer to a half-hour slide of the 9 and 10 pm repeat dramas.  ABC devoted […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 6, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   College Football Week 6 Top Games on Saturday 4.6 rating ABC 8:00 pm #4 Ohio State […]

  FOX announced most of its midseason decisions today, and there were a few surprises.  Biggest was the reduction of AMERICAN IDOL‘s Thursday night results show to 30 minutes, with the new sitcom SURVIVING JACK at 8:30PM, and the Greg Kinnear vehicle RAKE following at 9PM.  We’ve come a long way from the days when […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  the FILTHY RICH rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NFL Network’s THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL barely took the Thursday cable crown, down 0.44 from last week’s game to 1.90.  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was right behind […]

  Note:  NBC and FOX NFL ratings below are adjusted to reflect our estimated final numbers after time zone adjustment.  In addition, the CBS schedule ran about half an hour late in several markets, also due to football. Preliminary numbers for the simultaneous premiere of BONNIE & CLYDE on Lifetime, A&E and History are at […]

  The night was dominated by football and its aftereffects, but there were some other (dimmer) bright spots.  Note:  we don’t yet have a rating for the PBS season debut of Downton Abbey. FOX:  Our projection is that the overrun of the NFC WILD CARD PLAYOFF GAME, which pushed the network’s primetime schedule by about […]