NBC of course won last night handily with the first NFL game of the season.  Usually scheduled on the Thursday after Labor Day, the NFL moved the game to Wednesday out of deference to President Obama who gives his acceptance speech in Charlotte tomorrow night.  Last night’s game (Dallas upsetting the Super Bowl champion New […]

[UPDATE:  As expected, the post-football numbers for NBC left its shows with ratings virtually identical to last week’s.  Optimists might say that’s an accomplishment with this week’s much stronger competition–but it’s also true that the shows, none above a 1.6 except THE OFFICE’s 2.1, didn’t have much room to fall.  GLEE and SCANDAL also lost […]

  A superhero comes to the rescue. CW:  ARROW gave the beleagurered little network the best news it’s had literally in years, with a colossal (for CW) 1.3 rating that beat NBC in its first half-hour and was only narrowly behind in its second.  That also lifted SUPERNATURAL to a snappy 1.0 at 9PM. ABC:  You couldn’t call NASHVILLE a […]

NBC is on track to win its third Tuesday in a row according to the preliminary fast nationals.  Last week was a bit of an aberration because of the presidential debate but October 9 and 23 were more normal weeks in which CBS’s erosion has allowed NBC to sneak ahead.  FOX and ABC continue to […]

  Nielsen wasn’t in a hurry with today’s ratings. 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 […]

Something finally goes right for ABC this fall. ABC:  This was what the network had in mind when it announced its Friday schedule.  LAST MAN STANDING debuted to a 1.9, above the mid-1 numbers it was doing on higher-viewing Tuesdays.  It also proved to be an effective lead-in to the launch of MALIBU COUNTRY, which […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

CBS dominates, without a singing competition to be seen. CBS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY, 2 1/2 MEN and PERSON OF INTEREST all had their best outings of the season.  Big Bang was particularly impressive, up 0.4 to a huge 5.5 that almost equaled the 4 other networks combined.  Men was up just a tick to […]