NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 6.1.  Football-related adjustments on other networks pushed the reruns of THE SIMPSONS and BOB’S BURGERS down by 1.2 each, 60 MINUTES and THE SIMPSONS down 0.4, and GOD FRIENDED ME, BOB’S BURGERS and the MAGNUM PI rerun down 0.1.         Broadcast […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 5 and Sunday April 6, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. College Basketball NCAA Men’s Tournament: Final Four 4.6 rating TBS 6:00 pm Saturday #1-Florida 53 vs […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The reruns of SINGLE PARENTS and CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD lost 0.1 in final numbers.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The season 2 finale of YELLOWSTONE won the cable night at 0.59, up 0.06 from last week, and even more impressively […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary numbers for Sunday.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Considering its pedigree, HBO’s BIG LITTLE LIES had an unexciting debut at 0.31, although its total viewers number was a bit better because it skewed […]

  Anyone who’s been following the tumult in television, typified by the recently-concluded WGA strike and the ongoing-as-of-this-post SAG-AFTRA strike, knows that a key issue for the industry is that the streamers, who now dominate the programming landscape, keep their metrics deeply opaque.  This is their firm policy not just with their talent, but even […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday July 11 through Sunday July 17, 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: […]

  A big night for football, and not much else. 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). […]

  A definition of pathetic:  the combined rating for the four broadcast networks last night sunk below a 4 rating with adults 18-49, down 33% from the same night last year. CBS:  For what it’s worth, a 1.1 average allowed CBS to claim victory last night.  BIG BROTHER was the highest-rated show of the evening […]