Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 11 through Sunday October 17, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  With football adjusted out, THE VOICE and STATE OF AFFAIRS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.  That pushed STATE to a new low 1.5, and ominously, it was at 1.3 by its last 15 minutes.  Football also resulted in THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT and the CASTLE rerun on ABC losing 0.1 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE BACHELORETTE fell 0.11 to 0.56, and QUEENS was up 0.02 to 0.30. CBS:  FBI jumped 0.14 to 0.72, FBI INTERNATIONAL gained 0.05 to 0.51, and FBI MOST WANTED was steady at 0.44. NBC:  THE VOICE returned to regular episodes at 0.78, LA BREA climbed 0.15 to 0.58, and NEW AMSTERDAM […]

  The only original programming on any broadcast network last night was CBS’s annual KENNEDY CENTER HONORS special, which was up 0.3 from last year to 1.2, enough to tie it with the preceding NCIS rerun as the highest-rated show of the night.  The rest of the networks were in rerun mode, including marathons of […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday November 29 through Sunday December 5, 2021. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

  UPDATE:  We don’t yet have final national ratings for ESPN’s coverage of the COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF CHAMPIONSHIP, but they will be huge.  In the 56 largest TV markets with local Nielsen ratings, the game averaged an enormous 18.5 household rating, which would translate to around a 9 adult 18-49 rating (possibly approaching a 10 […]

  CW only programs 10 hours per week , but with its many bubble shows and outright failures, it’s generating plenty of activity.  Today it ordered 5 new dramas, and renewed bubble shows HART OF DIXIE and NIKITA.  Dixie‘s return isn’t a tremendous surprise, since it often outperforms its companion show Gossip Girl (itself currently […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Holiday reruns at 0.40/0.39/0.38/0.45/0.31. CBS:  More holiday reruns at 0.27/0.28/0.24. NBC:  The yearly run of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE was at 0.61, down 0.15 from 2020 but enough to win the night. FOX:  The only original show on broadcast TV was WWE SMACKDOWN, down 0.04 to 0.48. CW:  A rerun at […]