Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).   The return of the NFL regular season pushed NBC to the top of the heap (with not one but two prime time games, on Thursday and Sunday).  NBC matched the same week last year with […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 7 and Sunday September 8, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) NFL Week 1.  The FOX 4:30 afternoon game (Green Bay at San Francisco in almost all the country) […]

Sunday ratings last night, last year and last week.  In the table below, live sports programming (the entire evening on NC and the 7 pm hours on CBS and FOX) has been adjusted to our estimates of the eventual official national ratings, available Tuesday morning after West Coast viewing has been properly counted.   The Sunday […]

The weekly rankings so far (through Thursday) for cable and broadcast programs.  In the official nationals, Thursday’s NFL season kickoff game (Baltimore at Denver) came in at a 10.3 rating with adults 18-49, the #1 show of the week by far at this point and ahead of last year’s 9.7 rating for the similar game […]

Thursday ratings for last night, last week and last year (using Wednesday from the same week last year as the relevant comparison, the night to which the NFL premiere game was relocated by the Democratic National Convention).  The NFL is off to a rousing start.  In the fast nationals, the game averaged a 10.0 rating, but that […]

Wednesday ratings last night and last week, with a comparision to Thursday the same week last year (because the similar Wednesday last year had the NFL kick-off game, which was displaced by coverage of President Obama’s acceptance speech for his second Democratic nomination).  Tomorrow we will compared tonight’s NFL premiere game with the unusual Wednesday […]

Top programs of the week on cable and broadcast networks:  

  An extremely stable night. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT won the night for NBC with a 2.3, up 0.1 from last week. ABC:  The season finale of EXTREME WEIGHT LOSS tied the 1.2 both of last week and last year’s finale. FOX:  SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE was even at 1.3. CW:  WHOSE LINE […]