>Once again football tops the weekly cable ratings chart.  ESPN’s Monday Night Football was in its usual #1 position with a solid 5.6 Adult 18-49 rating, but the big number was turned in by the NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football (a very good 4.1 rating, almost double the performance of the franchise two weeks ago).  […]

  Little original programming on the last Friday of summer TV. 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 […]

  Even with a captive audience, the attraction of network TV may be fading. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s regional MLB coverage and the 9PM hour of 48 HOURS lost 0.1 in final numbers.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s UFC PRELIMS led Saturday cable at 0.44, up 0.02 from last week, the network’s morning WIMBLEDON coverage was […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday January 21 through Sunday January 27, 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 […]

>ABC led a very quiet Saturday night with a 1.2 Adult 18-49 from 8-11 pm in the preliminary fast nationals.  Wipeout at 8 pm averaged a 0.9 from 8:00-8:30 and 1.0 from 8:30-9:00, winning the hour.  ABC continued its winning ways from 9-11 pm with a 20/20 special, My Extreme Affliction (about people with extraordinary […]

  Even at HBO, someone has to watch your show.  The network announced today that ENLIGHTENED won’t be returning for a third season.  The Mike White/Laura Dern dramedy earned its share of praise, but its Season 2 finale was watched by 200,000 people–and that’s not 18-49s, that’s the total number of people in America who […]

  The turkey was barely cold before Christmas season arrived on the networks. 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 […]