AMERICAN IDOL rebounded from last week’s low. 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 comparisons […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SCANDAL and AMERICAN IDOL gained 0.1 in final ratings, and although the “REAL BLACKLIST” branded DATELINE did as well, THE BLACKLIST itself did not.  Meanwhile, things got worse at CBS, where THE ODD COUPLE, MOM and ELEMENTARY all lost 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  With Cincinnati’s simulcast of MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL removed, both the SNL CHRISTMAS clip show and STATE OF AFFAIRS on NBC lost 0.1, leaving them at 1.4 and 1.0, respectively.  (In the 10:30PM quarter-hour, AFFAIRS dipped to 0.9.)  The rerun BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original […]

  SECRETS AND LIES:  Midseason TBD on ABC THE FACTS:  Another ABC murder soap, this one starring Ryan Phillippe as a man who finds the body of a neighbor’s child in the woods, KaDee Strickland as his wife, and Juliette Lewis as the homicide detective who thinks he’s the killer.  It’s based on an Australian […]

SEASON TO DATE through 12 weeks (through Sunday, December 16, 2012, including adjusted fast national ratings for the last three nights): NBC is averaging a 2.76 adult 18-49 rating in prime time (up 20% from the same period last year). CBS is in second place with a 2.37 (down 14%). FOX is in third place with […]

    BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  Reruns at 0.20-0.37. CBS:  BIG BROTHER dipped 0.02 to 0.99, followed by reruns at 0.23-0.32. NBC:  BROOKLYN NINE-NINE was at 0.40/0.33 compared to last week’s 0.40/0.28.  The season finale of MAKING IT grew by a tenth to 0.33.  A LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME rerun ended the night at 0.22. […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 9 through Sunday August 15, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  SHARK TANK lost 0.03 to 0.52, and 20/20 was down 0.08 to 0.41. CBS:  SWAT was steady at 0.46, FIRE COUNTRY gained 0.04 to 0.52, and BLUE BLOODS ticked up to 0.42. NBC:  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ rose 0.04 to 0.33, YOUNG ROCK held at 0.27, and DATELINE fell 0.17 to 0.32. […]