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 […]

  A slow night, even by Friday standards. 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). Ratings analysis follows the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FRESH OFF THE BOAT gained 0.1 in final numbers, and CHARMED lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 2.01 (for the first Lakers game after Kobe Bryant’s death)/0.63.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.53/0.35 […]

  Under the Dome is still the place to be on Mondays. CBS:  UNDER THE DOME slipped again, down 0.2 from last week, but it remains one of the biggest hits of the summer with a 2.7 rating.  That more than doubled the line-up’s highest rated rerun, a 1.3 for 2 BROKE GIRLS. ABC:  A […]

  Below are the ratings in key demos for Sunday’s Top 25 original cable telecasts, plus a few more of interest.  If you’d like additional lower-rated series included in the latter list, please let us know.  Some analysis and context follow the chart. Several networks took the Sunday of Labor Day weekend off, notably HBO, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up to 5.9 in final numbers, a point above last week’s game.  Elsewhere, HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER gained 0.1. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart    CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The NFL Network piece of THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL didn’t have the same bounce as the network portion, and […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  With New York’s baseball game removed from the CW ratings, both THE ORIGINALS and JANE THE VIRGIN fell 0.2 to twin 0.4s.  On NBC, THE VOICE gained 0.1 and THE NIGHT SHIFT fell by the same amount.  In addition, DANCING WITH THE STARS rose 0.1.  Ratings in key demos for the Top […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 29: July 12-18, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]