The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 15 and Sunday November 16, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 11 Sunday 11.7 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly OAK-SD DEN-STL CIN-NO) […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE VOICE, TRANSPLANT, THE BACHELORETTE and the FBI: MOST WANTED, COSMOS and WEAKEST LINK reruns all gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL led Tuesday cable at 0.59/0.58, and the network’s CFP RANKINGS SHOW […]

> Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these critiques shouldn’t be taken as full reviews, but rather as a guide to the general style and content of the […]

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 26: June 22-28, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

Big Brother’s second episode aired last night, scoring a preliminary 2.2 rating with Adults 18-49.  Although it was the top-rated broadcast program Sunday night (and the only network program to top a 2.0 rating Sunday), last night’s episode was down three-tenths of a rating point from the comparable episode last summer.  More detail on Sunday […]

> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, and […]

        NETWORK REPORT:  Although broadcast/cable coverage of the NFL DRAFT is being given blame for some of Thursday’s low ratings, that wasn’t particularly true last year, and the addition of FOX to the cable coverage didn’t raise the cumulative total rating all that much. ABC:  Supposedly international sales justified the renewal of […]

  Republicans ♥ NBC? NBC:  Somewhat ironically, considering the Right’s loathing of MSNBC, preliminary numbers have the Peacock as the GOP network of choice for last night’s coverage of the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, with a 1.3, more than the CBS and ABC numbers combined.  The rating may be somewhat attributable to the 2.4 earned in […]