NETWORK FINALS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.1 in final numbers, while I FEEL BAD and MOM lost the same.  In addition, THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.7, up 0.4 from last week.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NFL Network’s share of […]

Thanks to football, Sunday nights in the fall can be very misleading.  NBC will walk away with the night between September and December with an astounding 6.5 rating each Sunday in prime time during the NFL season.  For 18 weeks, this is the highest-rated night on any network. Further, the Sunday prime time ratings for […]

  College basketball’s big night. 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 and comparisons follow the chart. […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a GLOBAL CITIZEN FESTIVAL special at 0.12, it was a night of premieres.  CELEBRITY JEOPARDY launched at 0.42.  The season premiere of CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE was at 0.47, up 0.07 from the 2021 premiere.  The season premiere of THE ROOKIE was at 0.31, down 0.05 from last fall. CBS:  […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  Things actually got worse for AMERICAN IDOL in the adjusted numbers, falling 0.1 to 1.7, not just yet another new all-time low, but ignominiously keeping it in a tie with THE CRAZY ONES (which also fell 0.1), a show CBS may not even renew.  THE MILLERS and ELEMENTARY also lost 0.1 each.  […]

  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 and comparisons follow the chart. CBS:  The network was […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were 0.1 bumps for the season finales of THE VOICE, THE FLASH and THE REAL O’NEALS in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT took its NBA PLAYOFFS-fueled turn at the top of Tuesday cable, with 3.59 for its Golden […]

NOTE: ABC and CW numbers below are inflated somewhat by major-market pre-emptions for the Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN nationally. ABC stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose carried the late game (Rams-Raiders in west coast primetime), while WPIX in New York (CW) carried the Jets-Lions game in east/central primetime. Any Detroit pre-emption […]