The second Thursday of the season is down a relatively modest 13% collectively for the broadcast networks (10.2 Adult 18-49 rating last night versus 11.7 last fall on this night). Thursday Night Football (Cardinals at Rams) on the NFL Network had limited impact on the fast nationals.  The game was aired locally in Phoenix on […]

  STATE OF AFFAIRS:  Monday 10PM on NBC starting November 17 – If Nothing Else Is On… PLAYERS:  Star and Executive Producer Katherine Heigl, who developed the series for herself and pitched it to all the networks, hoping to spark a bidding war (which never really happened).  Series creator and pilot director Joe Carnahan, a […]

  Nothing last night came close to basketball. ABC:  Per Mitch Metcalf:  NBA FINALS GAME 3 came to life last night with a 5.8 unadjusted fast national rating with adults 18-49.  We are estimating that rating will go up to a 6.7 rating in the official (time-zone-adjusted) nationals to be released later today.  This still lags […]

  Football helped all FOX’s shows… except one. 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 […]

> The new shows tumble. FOX:  TOUCH faced new scripted competition from CBS for the first time, and even though NBC and ABC were still mostly in repeats during the hour, Touch lost half a ratings point to 2.8.  That’s a solid number, and a decent retention of its American Idol lead-in, but the show’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Game 4 of the NBA FINALS adjusted to 2.9, down 1.4 from 2019’s Game 4.  In addition, FBI DECLASSIFIED and ELLEN’S GAME OF GAMES gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TBS’s MLB PLAYOFFS games were at […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year. NBA Playoffs […]

  More reruns (not all of them noted on the chart below). 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 […]