NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for THE CON and THE MASKED SINGER.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV’s THE CHALLENGE rose 0.08 to 0.56.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.38/0.32.  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW JERSEY ticked […]

Ratings for the simultaneous double-headers on ESPN and ESPN2 Tuesday have been added to the chart below. World Cup to Date:  2014 is now 69% ahead of 2010 in terms of the total audience (persons aged 2+).  Further, 2014 is 56% ahead with adults 18-49, 47% ahead with the key sports sales demographic of men […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE gained 0.1 and THE ISLAND fell 0.1 in final numbers.  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As usual on Mondays without special events, the cable night belonged to USA’s WWE coverage and VH1’s LOVE & HIP-HOP.  The former was at 1.38-1.25 over its 3 hours (up about a tenth from […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 30 and Sunday January 31, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. NFL 5.03 rating ESPN 7:00 pm […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 8-9, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, October 10-11, […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  There was a bit of good news for FOX in the afternoon final numbers in that ALMOST HUMAN crept up 0.1 to 2.3, but it was a weird bump, because it all came from new viewers who tuned in at 8:45PM when the show was almost over.  They then seemed to hang […]

  After just 2 episodes and less than a single week, CBS has yanked the disastrous dating show 3 from its schedule.  No one can blame it:  the show launched with a “special” airing on Thursday after Big Brother and promptly lost more than 60% of its lead-in rating with a 0.8.  In its one […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT dipped 0.03 to 0.44, and THE GOOD DOCTOR was up 0.03 to 0.36. CBS:  Returning from a rerun week, THE NEIGHBORHOOD lost 0.04 to 0.52, BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA edged up 0.02 to 0.43, NCIS gained 0.04 to 0.47, and NCIS: HAWAII was down 0.02 to 0.34. […]