One-third of last year’s viewers have left. FOX: The next-to-last AMERICAN IDOL of the season, airing against repeats on every other network, scored a 4.2, which gave FOX the nightly win but was down a whopping 2.2 rating points from last year’s parallel show. GLEE‘s season finale, given that mighty lead-in, earned […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: THE BACHELOR ticked down to 0.65. In what turned out to be the final straw for PROMISED LAND, which will be yanked to Hulu after next week, the series dropped 0.03 to 0.15. CBS: THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT was at 0.53, and BIG BROTHER: CELEBRITY EDITION ticked down […]
Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday June 16-17, 2018. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, June 17-18, […]
>History’s Pawn Stars returned with original episodes Monday at 10 pm, powering the reality hit to the top of the weekly cable ratings chart to a very good 2.0 rating with Adults 18-49. That puts Pawn Stars tied for second place among all networks in the Monday 10 pm hour: #1 CBS Hawaii Five-O 2.6, […]
Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday March 7 through Sunday March 13, 2022. 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 last year: […]
BROADCAST FINALS ABC: Most of the broadcast networks were in rerun mode due to the NCAA Championship game, but ABC was all-new, as AMERICAN IDOL fell a tenth to 0.64, and THE GOOD DOCTOR dropped 0.07 to 0.37. CBS: Reruns at 0.44/0.37/0.28/0.22. NBC: AMERICAN SONG CONTEST lost another 0.06 to 0.28, and a special […]
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).
> DISCLAIMER: These initial impressions are based on the clips (usually 3-5 minutes) released by the networks to use in their Upfront presentations and for promos. They’re chosen to sell the show, not to accurately represent it. So take the reactions below with a large satchel of salt–we may well feel differently about these shows […]