NETWORK UPDATE:  HAWAII 5-0 gained 0.1 in final numbers, as did WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was again #1 on Friday cable, although it fell by 0.24 from last week to 1.25.  […]

  Preseason SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL arrived. 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 follow the […]

  Very little change from last week. 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 follow […]

  Don’t get too excited by those preliminary NBC numbers. 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 […]

  It really takes some doing to have ratings too low for CW on Friday nights, but CULT pulled it off, yanked from the network’s schedule with almost half of its episodes still unaired.  (Last week Cult had a 0.2 rating in 18-49s and was watched by a total of 622,000 viewers.)  For the rest of […]

>It’s the third week of the season and sampling starts to settle down and viewing patterns begin to emerge.  On Tuesday, New Girl remains the hit of the season, but other than that, the night is kind of blah.  FOX won with a good but not dominant 3.6 rating and CBS made it interesting with […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday May 30 through Sunday June 5, 2022. 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: […]

NOTE: Fast affiliate-based nationals continue to be distorted by a high number of pre-emptions in large markets for local breaking news. The numbers below represent viewing in primetime on over 200 local stations for each network (some combination of the network schedule and local news coverage in many places).  In light of this, we’re going […]