>On an otherwise typically sluggish Friday night of broadcast television, one program topped a 2 rating: ABC’s 20/20 from 10-11 pm, smartly pegged to the enormous $640 million MegaMillions jackpot.  The news magazine trotted out stories of past lottery winners, busted fortunes, and the math and “winning strategies” behind the bouncing lottery balls.   The timely […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.8, down 0.7 from last week’s finals.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Neither of the night’s prestige premieres fared well.  HBO’s MY BRILLIANT FRIEND barely made the chart at 0.05, with CAMPING up 0.03 to […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR and the 2 BROKE GIRLS rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the BACHELOR IN PARADISE POST-SHOW and SIGNIFICANT MOTHER both fell 0.1.  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  LOVE & HIP-HOP was in its accustomed place at the top of Monday cable ratings, down 0.05 to 1.41, but with a new lead-out this […]

A good night for Tom Selleck fans, and not much more. CBS:  BLUE BLOODS was the highest rated show of the night, up 0.3 to 1.7.  However, it’s not clear at this point how much local preemptions for basketball championships affected Friday’s numbers.  Earlier in the evening, reruns of UNDERCOVER BOSS and HAWAII 5-0 were […]

  Little competition for an NFL PRESEASON game, and several of the other preliminary numbers below may be adjusted down on Monday for local NFL preemptions. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  MASTERCHEF gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun of ARROW lost the same (putting the latter down to 0.1, a dismal number even for a summer rerun).         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE was at the […]

  Only one fresh hour of broadcast TV. 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). Ratings analysis […]

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