Ratings for Tuesday’s ESPN matches have been added to the table below.  The 3:30 pm telecast of Belgium vs USA averaged 13,440,000 persons 2+, just behind the 13,774,000 for USA vs Portugal on Sunday June 22 at 6 pm, a much better time period.  The streaming viewership had to be around a few million,  so […]

>From tvbythenumbers.com, decisive Game 5 last night (Detroit Tigers edging the New York Yankees 3-2 in the Bronx) made TBS the number three network in all of primetime television with a 7.3 Household rating in the metered markets, which represent over half the country equipped for next-day local ratings (as opposed to the fast nationals which provides a […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 23 and Sunday August 24, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. The Little League World Series (U.S. championship game Saturday and Sunday’s Championship game) attracted huge audiences, […]

  GREY’S ANATOMY, with its 16th season premiere, topped everything but football. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

A fond farewell to Wisteria Lane. ABC:  The bang-up season finale of ONCE UPON A TIME scored a 3.2, its best number in 2 months, sending the series to summer hiatus on a high.  DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES shuffled off its mortal coil with the same 3.2, not exactly an event number (just slightly higher than last […]

  A Duke nail-biter gave a big boost to CBS. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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). […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JEOPARDY MASTERS was at 0.39, followed by 20/20 down a tick to 0.28. CBS:  The uncanceled SWAT gained 0.06 to 0.36, FIRE COUNTRY was up 0.03 to 0.35, and BLUE BLOODS lost 0.02 to 0.28. NBC:  After a rerun at 0.29, DATELINE was up 0.03 to 0.27. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN climbed […]

> On the night that two of the Fall’s most-hyped new arrivals made their debuts, the clear winner was a returning hit. ABC:  When their horse has the lead, horse-racing fans will sometimes yell out “Wire!” in the hope that the finish line will miraculously appear and the race will end exactly as is.  That’s […]