NBC didn’t give GREAT NEWS much of a (seasonal?) send-off. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from a rerun week, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS gained 0.02 to 0.51, CELEBRITY WHEEL OF FORTUNE fell 0.19 to 0.43, SUPERMARKET SWEEP was also down 0.19 to 0.36, and THE ROOKIE lost 0.08 to 0.32. CBS:  The AFC Divisional NFL PLAYOFFS game was gigantic at 11.37, a strong enough lead-in […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.32/0.28/0.28/0.25, followed by the news special 24 MONTHS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD at 0.25. CBS:  SURVIVOR gained 0.06 to 0.90, BEYOND THE EDGE dropped 0.04 to 0.35, and GOOD SAM was up 0.02 to 0.24. NBC:  Reruns at 0.40/0.47/0.41. FOX:  THE MASKED SINGER rose 0.09 to 0.81, and DOMINO […]

  THE CODE didn’t have the key to high ratings. 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). […]

>With the news that Chris Meloni will not return to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the ratings in the Wednesday 10 pm hour will be adjusted to reflect a slightly lower SVU rating and a slightly higher CSI rating.  As a result, CSI‘s projected margin of victory will move from 0.1 to 0.3.  Updated […]

  Even with a drop, THE BACHELOR easily won the demo. 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 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There was some shuffling in the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ratings, as both NBC and CBS gained 0.1 in final numbers, and ABC lost the same.  Also down 0.1 were the reruns of the MADTV 20TH ANNIVERSARY special and PENN & TELLER: FOOL US.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program […]

> CBS narrowly won the second Friday of the season with a 1.5 Adult 18-49 rating (each of the three scripted programs was down 0.2 from premiere week), while NBC and FOX followed closely with a 1.4 rating, fueled by lower cost unscripted fare.  Dateline averaged a 1.6 over two hours and peaked at a […]