>The new television season is here.  The kids are back in school, summer is a distant memory, and the Emmy telecast has ended.  It’s time for the networks to unleash a flurry of season premieres and series debuts in the span of a few weeks.  Tonight, ABC and NBC launch their new Monday schedules intact, […]

> A bad night at the Eye. CBS:  It’s lucky for CBS that one of its May Sweeps Sundays will be filled by the Survivor season finale, because the regular line-up is falling apart.  For no clear reason, the season’s penultimate AMAZING RACE took a 0.4 hit from last week, tying its season low 2.2.  […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Lots of adjustments in final numbers, of which the most notable was DYNASTY losing 0.1 to debut at a truly terrible 0.3 after the big (unchanged) 0.8 lead-in it had from RIVERDALE.  Elsewhere, there were 0.1 bumps for THE GOLDBERGS, SURVIVOR, THE BLACKLIST, and EMPIRE.           […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE VOICE gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did the BIG BANG THEORY rerun, while the ORIGINALS rerun lost 0.1.  With quarter-hour numbers available, the value of the VOICE lead-in to THE NIGHT SHIFT is even clearer, as over the course of the latter’s hour, it tumbled 1.9/1.3/1.1/1.1, although it kept its […]

  Reminder:  the return of preseason NFL football means that over the next several weeks, games will be aired on many local stations, which will lead to more afternoon adjustments for the networks than usual. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and […]

Live awards shows have been surging in the DVR age, and last night it happened again. ABC:  The BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS blew away the competition with a 3.6 (peaking at 3.9 in the 9-9:30PM half-hour), the show’s highest rating in 10 years and up a huge 1.2 from last year.  Before that, the season finale […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun CLAIM TO FAME at 0.20, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD fell 0.17 to 0.51, THE FINAL STRAW dropped 0.08 to 0.34, and THE $100,000 PYRAMID was up 0.05 to 0.39. CBS:  Sandwiched between reruns at 0.35/0.19/0.19, BIG BROTHER was down a tenth to 0.62. NBC:  WHO DO YOU THINK YOU […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  Nielsen got it all correct on the first try, and there were no changes from the preliminary numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  This is an opportune time for a reminder that only about one-third of US households subscribe to HBO, not […]