6:30 We’ve arrived at that strangest phenomenon of awards season, the night when we collectively grant the 88 nonentities of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (none of them filmmakers, many of them not even critics, and some of them of dubious principle) meaningful sway over the Academy Awards.  That will be even more true this […]

  AMERICAN IDOL continued its slide. 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 and comparisons follow the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BACHELOR gained 0.1 in final numbers, and THE GOOD DOCTOR lost the same.  Elsewhere, MAN WITH THE PLAN went up 0.1, and THE ENEMY WITHIN was down the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telecast was at […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and HOTEL HELL gained 0.1 in final numbers, but NBC’s REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION coverage and the 8:30PM rerun of FRESH OFF THE BOAT lost the same.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN made its move from Thursday […]

PGA golf was the big winner this weekend (May 11-12, 2013), thanks to a resurgent Tiger Woods, who won his fourth tournament this year at the mini-major TPC in Florida.  NBC was up almost 50% over last year for the weekend coverage and up almost 70% for Sunday’s final round as Woods cruised to victory […]

  By summer TV standards, there were plenty of well-watched shows on the networks last night.  The bad news:  they were all down. ABC:  Game 3 of the NBA FINALS will, we estimate, end up with a 5.8 rating after adjustment to reflect west coast live viewing.  However, that’s 0.7 below Game 3 of last […]

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at fall 2015:  The CW’s primetime lineup is shown below.  As a reminder, the programs are arranged by broadcast schedule, with each show placed on the night it spent most of the season so far.  The audience share for each of 30 gender-age subgroups is noted for each […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 34: August 16-22, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]