RENT wasn’t particularly live in any respect. 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). Ratings analysis […]

> Welcome back to Network Scorecard, where we consider the perplexing case of AMERICAN IDOL. FOX:  It’s now clear that the biggest story of the 2011-12 television season is the slump in established reality-competition franchises.  Idol joins Dancing With the Stars and The Biggest Loser with a nearly 30% decline from last year’s Wednesday average.  […]

  FOX:  Any hope that ENLISTED could find itself some helpful word-of-mouth faded as its 2d episode fell 0.1 from the premiere to 0.6.  It was again 0.1 below RAISING HOPE, itself down 0.1 to 0.7.  Neither could complain about its 8PM lead-in, since BONES was relatively robust at a steady 1.5. NBC:  DATELINE was even […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday January 2 through Sunday January 8, 2023. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  YOUNG SHELDON gained 0.1 in final numbers, but the series premiere of EVIL and the season premiere of A MILLION LITTLE THINGS lost the same.  In addition, FOX’s THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.6.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NFL Network’s share of […]

  Friday wasn’t a friendly neighborhood for ABC’s new arrival. ABC:  THE NEIGHBORS arrived on Fridays with a 1.2 thud, down from all its Wednesday numbers and also down 0.3 from its LAST MAN STANDING lead-in.  Not that Last Man had anything to feel good about, since its 1.5 was down half a ratings point […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, after baseball adjustments, the CW reruns fell to 0.2/0.1.  In addition, AMERICA’S GOT TALENT (up) and WORLD OF DANCE (down) swapped 0.1s, and BEAT SHAZAM gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:   Freeform’s THE BOLD […]

NETWORK UPDATE:  The Oregon vs. Michigan State COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 2.5.  The reruns of RUNNING WILD and BULLSEYE each lost 0.1 in final numbers. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports (and ESPN) dominated Saturday cable, with COLLEGE FOOTBALL and various pre-and-post shows accounting for 7 of the day’s Top 10 slots.  The Oklahoma vs. Tennessee game […]