Take a look at Mitch Metcalf’s Ratings Charts post today for a detailed explanation of the effect that last night’s NFL Preseason Football had on the night’s local ratings and why.  Viewers are so thrilled that some form of football is back on the air that they’ll flock even to these relatively meaningless games, […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 28 through Sunday November 3, 2019.  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 […]

>What an ugly night Tuesday has become.  Between the Daylight Saving Time effect early in the evening, a bumper crop of repeats, mid-season shows that are going nowhere, and a million other options (including streaming, DVR playback, local sports, and for the lucky audience in LA: freeway police chases on KCAL), no broadcast network last […]

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 49: November 30-December 6, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The season premiere of 20/20: IN AN INSTANT lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Showtime ran a “sneak preview” of I’M DYING UP HERE with little publicity and earned a rating of 0.03/102K. Sports occupied the […]

Chart updated with persons 2+ audiences for the four games played Saturday April 4, 2015 (the Final Four Round): Telecast 65: TBS/TNT/TRU Saturday 6:00 pm #1-Duke 81 #7-Michigan State 61 (Duke up 36-25 at half) Telecast 66: TBS/TNT/TRU Saturday 9:00 pm #1-Wisconsin 71 #1-Kentucky 64 (Tied 36-36 at half) The early Saturday game on TBS/TNT/TRU (telecast 65) averaged 15,307,000 persons 2+ across the […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday February 14 and Sunday February 15, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. College Basketball Saturday 0.84 rating CBS 1:00 pm Baylor at Kansas 0.35 rating FOX 12:30 pm […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Note that in much of the country, the primetime schedules were interrupted by news reports of the Texas school massacre. ABC:  HOLEY MOLEY rose 0.11 to 0.47, and THE CHASE was up 0.05 to 0.32.  A rerun WHO DO YOU BELIEVE was at 0.23. CBS:  The network pulled the scheduled season finale […]