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). ###

Monday night’s Olympics coverage on NBC scored a solid 10.5 rating with Adults 18-49, just a tenth of a point off Beijing’s pace but well ahead of Athens and Sydney. FOX went with repeats of Hell’s Kitchen Monday, averaging a 1.1 rating and making it the second place broadcast network in the shadow of the Olympics.  CBS […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The NFL HALL OF GAME adjusted to 2.0, still half a point below last year’s game.  Elsewhere, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the reruns of THE BIG BANG THEORY and SUPERNATURAL lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     […]

  With the networks in holiday hibernation, nothing on broadcast TV managed more than a 0.8 rating. 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 […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

>When the television ratings come in each morning, there is often a lot of attention paid to a rating that might be up only one tenth of a rating point from the prior week or the prior year.  (More recently, most ratings in most time periods have been trending down instead of up, which makes […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  WHISTLEBLOWER and the rerun of THE RESIDENT fell 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, probably due to preseason NFL preemptions, the entire CW line-up was down respectively by 0.1/0.1/0.2.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Friday cable, […]

> As we know from the final ratings, last night went as well for NBC as it possibly could have, with the Giants/Patriot Super Bowl (yay, Giants!) becoming the most watched broadcast in television history, boasting an audience of over 111 million people, while the post-game season premiere of THE VOICE was watched by more […]