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). ###

The World Series survives another year… but only with the help of football. FOX:  There’s a certain irony in the fact that WORLD SERIES GAME 4 avoided record lows (as detailed in Mitch Metcalf’s Daily Ratings Report today) mainly because the late afternoon down-to-the-wire NY Giants vs. Dallas Cowboys NFL FOOTBALL game gave baseball a […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s Alabama vs. USC game adjusted up 0.1 to 2.5 in final numbers.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE ORIGINALS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL dominated Saturday cable, with games and related programming occupying 11 of the Top 12 slots.  (ESPN alone had 10 of those, […]

Ratings for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs):

> FOX did what it had to do today, shutting the time-travel portal on TERRA NOVA.  The show (which, because of its CG postproduction, would have needed an early renewal to be ready for air in Fall 2012) was enormously expensive, and its ratings trajectory was steeply downward, ending its run at a level barely […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC and CW were both preempted by local telecasts of MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, leading to adjustments in finals.  DANCING WITH THE STARS, THE GOOD DOCTOR, one of the WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY reruns and the PENN & TELLER: FOOL US rerun all lost 0.1.  Elsewhere, LA’S FINEST, FILTHY […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The 8:30PM rerun of BOB’S BURGERS gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Syfy’s SHARKNADO reign may be done.  The latest title in the series scored 0.33, down 0.24 from 2017 (when it faced GAME OF THRONES), […]

>The November Sweep began last night, and FOX is off to a rousing start.  One night into the 28-night “sweep” period (in which each of the 210 TV markets are measured demographically in addition to the normal national ratings), FOX is #1 with a 5.8 fast national 18-49 rating, up 41% over the same night […]