Last night’s intermittent rain delay in the St. Louis/San Francisco NATIONAL LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS game caused a potential 2-night disaster for FOX (but an unexpected opportunity for ABC). The game had started at 4PM East Coast time, and was supposed to end before primetime, when FOX would air THE X FACTOR.  But the rain delay […]

  A pair of TV veterans made their annual visits. 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). […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE dropped 0.09 to 0.49, and THE GOOD DOCTOR was down 0.04 to 0.29. CBS:  Reruns at 0.33/0.24/0.21/0.22. NBC:  THE VOICE ticked up to 0.61, and QUANTUM LEAP held at 0.33. FOX:  Reruns at 0.33/0.23. CW:  Reruns at 0.11/0.08. TELEMUNDO:  EXATLON fell 0.07 to 0.17, REINA DEL SUR lost […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 4.7 in final numbers, up 0.6 from last week’s game.  In addition, NOTORIOUS fell another 0.1, putting it at a new low 0.8.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s FALLING WATER premiered at a mediocre […]

    Viewers seemed to be predominantly uninterested. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for MAGNUM PI and WWE SMACKDOWN.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.30/0.28.  On VH1, RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE gained 0.02 to 0.26, and UNTUCKED ticked up to 0.18.  […]

> On a night when the most interesting rating is likely to be on cable (the return of Walking Dead on AMC), there wasn’t much good news for any broadcast network. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME is premiering 8PM next Sunday, and the night is hardly set up for the new arrival as the network […]

  Lots of action on the final Wednesday of the summer TV season. 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 […]