NETWORK FINALS:  The rerun of THE GOLDBERGS gained 0.1 in final numbers.  A couple of less-rounded finals:  STAR ended up at 1.26, and THE 100 at 0.43.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The opening episode of BET’s MADIBA miniseries was a mere […]

CBS won Monday with a 3.1 adult 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm, down from last week’s season high for Monday (3.3) and tied with the second-highest CBS Monday rating (also 3.1 on 11.26, 12.10 and 12.17).  How I Met Your Mother and 2 Broke Girls each scored a 3.7, the highest-rated network programs last night.  Mike & Molly (3.3), repeat […]

The rank order of the broadcast networks last night was exactly the same as last year: FOX (with the penultimate American Idol on a special night), ABC (with the finale of Dancing with the Stars), NBC (with more auditions for America’s Got Talent minus The Voice episode it had last year), and CBS (with all […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  As expected, post-football adjustment wiped out the 0.2 improvements for REIGN and GLEE.  However, THE X FACTOR only lost 0.1 of its 0.3 gain, sticking at 1.5, and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES stayed at 1.3.  THE BIG BANG THEORY and GREY’S ANATOMY were also adjusted up 0.1, which for GREY’S at least got […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The post-football adjustments to NBC pushed both episodes of SUPERSTORE and CHICAGO MED each down 0.1, and THE BLACKLIST down 0.2 from this morning’s preliminary ratings.  Elsewhere, LIFE IN PIECES gained 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  This was the final […]

  A better lead-in didn’t do anything for QUANTICO. 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 […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday December 3-9, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the same weekend last year, December […]

  Another dim night for most of the networks. NBC:  Last night marked the season’s final Friday airing of GRIMM before it moves to Tuesdays, and its send-off was unpromising, a 1.3 that was down 0.2 from its last new episode 3 weeks ago.  As could be expected after last week’s breaking news in Boston, […]