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UPDATE: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 8.18.2018

Posted August 21, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were some major adjustments due to local Preseason NFL preemptions.  On ABC, the rerun THE GOOD DOCTOR fell 0.3 and 20/20 was down 0.2.  On CBS, the line-up was respectively down 0.3/0.2/0.1.  FOX’s MASTERCHEF dropped 0.3.  NBC was least effected, with the AMERICA’S GOT TALENT rerun down 0.1. […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Thursday 9.16.2021 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted September 17, 2021 by Mitch Metcalf

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  After a HOLEY MOLEY rerun at 0.36, WHEN NATURE CALLS held at 0.20, and THE HUSTLER was up 0.03 to 0.22. CBS:  A 2-hour BIG BROTHER gained 0.07 to 0.94, followed by a BULL rerun at 0.20. NBC:  The series finale of BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (and the last sitcom scheduled to air […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings (August 23-24, 2014)

Posted August 25, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 23 and Sunday August 24, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. The Little League World Series (U.S. championship game Saturday and Sunday’s Championship game) attracted huge audiences, […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.24.2020

Posted December 28, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

      NETWORK FINALS:  A holiday gift for our readers:  we are now able to provide final broadcast network ratings to the hundredths of a point.  We’ll alter the way we report adjustments from morning numbers (still in tenths) by noting that a show is “up” if its final number would round up to […]

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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 13

Posted June 25, 2014 by Mitch Metcalf

Ratings for the simultaneous double-headers on ESPN and ESPN2 Tuesday have been added to the chart below. World Cup to Date:  2014 is now 69% ahead of 2010 in terms of the total audience (persons aged 2+).  Further, 2014 is 56% ahead with adults 18-49, 47% ahead with the key sports sales demographic of men […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 1.6.2017

Posted January 7, 2017 by Mitch Metcalf

  The night’s new arrivals didn’t stir viewers the way a veteran did. 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 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 12.1.2016

Posted December 2, 2016 by Mitch Metcalf

      NETWORK FINALS:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 6.8.  In addition, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW gained 0.1 in final numbers, but SUPERNATURAL, THE GREAT INDOORS and THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW fell the same.   Except with respect to some programming on HGTV, Food Network and POP, all cable comparisons are to 2 weeks […]

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THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 5/26/13

Posted May 27, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  There was no curtain call for Smash.   NBC:  SMASH‘s 2-hour exit was an ignominious one.  Although its 0.5 was up 0.1 from its last Saturday airing, it was very nearly the lowest-rated show on a low-rated holiday weekend night, edged out only by a Good Wife rerun on CBS.  Smash barely managed to […]

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