Wednesday preliminary broadcast ratings (adult 18-49 ratings for last night, the same night last year and same night last week). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL The chart above goes beyond the adult 18-49 rating, adding other key advertiser sales demographics (adult 18-34 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares), and total viewership […]

  The return of LUCIFER had both good and bad news for FOX. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY rose 0.09 to 0.54.  The season finale of ABBOTT ELEMENTARY climbed 0.08 to 0.57, and the penultimate BLACK-ISH was also up 0.08 to 0.43.  TO TELL THE TRUTH gained 0.03 to 0.31. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, FBI slipped 0.03 to 0.63, FBI: INTERNATIONAL lost 0.02 to […]

Note: Preliminary CW ratings will be adjusted in finals to reflect preemption in NY for MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL. 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 […]

  The only faint sign of ratings life came from the US OLYMPIC TRIALS. 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 […]

Ratings for Sunday’s ESPN matches show that the Knockout Stage (starting with the Round of 16) is off to a great start.  The Netherlands vs Mexico match at 11:30 am Sunday averaged 5.7 million persons 2+ watching ESPN on television, while the 3:30 pm Costa Rica vs Greece match (settled by a shoot-out) hit 5.9 […]

        NETWORK REPORT:  Although broadcast/cable coverage of the NFL DRAFT is being given blame for some of Thursday’s low ratings, that wasn’t particularly true last year, and the addition of FOX to the cable coverage didn’t raise the cumulative total rating all that much. ABC:  Supposedly international sales justified the renewal of […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  Things only got worse in final numbers, as both TIMELESS and CONVICTION fell an additional 0.1.  As expected, the NFL preemption on CBS pushed KEVIN CAN WAIT down 0.2 and the SCORPION season premiere down 0.3, although THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.1.  (THE VOICE also added 0.1.)  The NFL […]