NASCAR led a slow night. 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 and comparisons […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  SHARK TANK lost 0.1 in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  AMC naturally owned Sunday cable, with THE WALKING DEAD down 0.17 from last week’s midseason premiere to 6.58, and TALKING DEAD down 0.42 to 2.68, with COMIC BOOK MEN down 0.22 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The Women’s Gymnastics US OLYMPIC TRIALS, BIG BROTHER and the AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.  Also note that due to a golf overrun on FOX, the regular schedule of reruns only ran 8:30-10PM.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE NIGHT SHIFT fell even lower in final numbers, down 0.1 to a 1.3 that represented just half of its AMERICA’S GOT TALENT lead-in.  The NCIS LA nudged up 0.1, while the FAMILY GUY rerun nudged down. TUESDAY CABLE:  As detailed in today’s WORLD CUP SKEDBALL, the highest rated shows of the […]

  SUNDAY HBO:  It’s still TRUE BLOOD season, and even though the show slipped 0.1 to 2.4 among 18-49s, holding more or less even in total viewers at 4.5M, that was by far the biggest cable rating of the night.  In fact, even though HBO is only in 1/3 of US households, it came within […]

> It’s been a long, long time, but finally the prayers of MAD MEN fans are being answered:  at the Television Critics Association gathering today, AMC confirmed that the series will return at 9PM on Sunday March 25, with a 2-hour episode written by Genius Emeritus Matthew Weiner. The following Sunday, April 1, AMC brings […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  DYNASTY and the 9:30PM rerun of WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY each lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS game led Friday cable at 1.36, followed by the network’s preceding coverage of the NFL […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 29-30, 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 31-November […]