TUESDAY UPDATE: With the Masters overrun removed, 60 MINUTES fell 0.2 from early numbers. The rest of the adjustments were upward by 0.1: ONCE UPON A TIME and RESURRECTION on ABC, THE AMAZING RACE and THE MENTALIST on CBS, and THE SIMPSONS and COSMOS on FOX. SUNDAY CABLE: The Purple Wedding episode of GAME […]
AFTERNOON UPDATE: 2 BROKE GIRLS and THE VOICE both climbed 0.1, and that was it for the adjustments on original programming. At 10PM, all the reruns were up 0.1. MONDAY CABLE: WWE (USA) was as usual in the lead, although at 1.7 it was down 0.2 from last week. On VH1, BASKETBALL WIVES was […]
Monday preliminary broadcast ratings:
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 12 and Sunday April 13, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. PGA Golf: The Masters “Hello, Friends…” 4.4 rating CBS 3:00 pm Saturday 3rd Round (-30% […]
Sunday preliminary broadcast ratings: 60 Minutes and the CBS 7:00-7:30 half hour specifically inflated by 10 minutes of the end of Masters coverage from 7:00-7:10 pm (mostly the monumentally awkward and amazingly tense ceremony in “Butler Cabin,” where the Green Jacket is awarded).
FOX: The season premiere episodes of KITCHEN NIGHTMARES ran at 1.2/1.1, far better in the 9PM hour than sitcoms have done for FOX all season. They were also up from last season’s 0.9 premiere. ABC: The night started with 1.1 for LAST MAN STANDING, down 0.3 from last week. That didn’t help the season […]
UPDATE: Lots of adjustments, but none of them over 0.1, with AMERICAN IDOL, THE BIG BANG THEORY, GREY’S ANATOMY, SHARK TANK and COMMUNITY up (narrowly avoiding series lows in some cases), and THE MILLERS and ELEMENTARY down. THURSDAY CABLE: VIKINGS and PAWN STARS led the way for History once again, at 1.0 and 0.8/1.0 […]
Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings: