NETWORK FINALS:  BLINDSPOT gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Friday cable, down a tick to 0.64.  On Discovery, a GOLD RUSH special dropped 0.11 from last week’s regular episode to 0.53, and the lead-out […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 6.0, down a point from last week’s game.  On CBS, where football slid the schedule, 60 MINUTES gained 0.04 to 1.9, NCIS: LA rose 0.1 to 0.9, and MADAM SECRETARY’s rating was 0.6, steady with last week.           Broadcast Official Nationals […]

  The BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS carried the night. 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 […]

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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 23 and Sunday April 24, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. Golf PGA: Valero Texas Open […]

  NBC bid adieu for the season to its highest-rated show. NBC:  Despite speculation that the season’s finale of SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL would be a bust with Tony Romo out due to injury, the game turned out to be an edge-of-the-seat thriller, and with Dallas and Philadelphia in a win-or-go-home game, NBC had a huge […]

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). Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  With all the sports and political preemptions and shifts, there were lots of changes from this morning’s numbers.  On NBC, BIGGEST LOSER, A TO Z and PARENTHOOD each lost 0.2, putting them at 1.1/0.7/1.3, and BAD JUDGE dropped 0.3, down to 0.9.  On CBS, BIG BANG THEORY gained back only 0.1 of this […]