Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL returned to NFL Network (shared with NBC), and its 1.19 was up 0.03 from 2 weeks ago.  On USA, CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST rose 0.04 from last week to 0.41, and THE CROMARTIES ticked down to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As was the case the previous week, the Fri-Sun holiday period is going to be light on non-sports original cable programming.  ESPN’s coverage of the COTTON […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Nielsen announced this morning that there have been systematic problems with their ratings since March, which weren’t noticed through the months of low summer viewing, but became obvious once the fall season began.  Although Nielsen didn’t address the issue directly, the assumption is that this is the explanation (you can read the […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday July 7-8, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K 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, July 8-9, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  2 networks carried NBA ALL-STAR Weekend events, with TNT’s RISING STARS telecast at 0.69, and ESPN’s ALL-STAR EVENT at 0.60.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH rose 0.07 to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  STATION 19, DEPUTY, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE and the reruns of THE NEIGHBORHOOD and BULL all lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  News was again at the top of cable, with Fox News’s HANNITY at 0.65/0.97/5.6M, CNN’s GLOBAL […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The SUPER BOWL adjusted to 37.1, 0.6 below the final number for 2016’s game. 24: LEGACY held at 6.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The highlights were few and far between on Super Bowl night, with the top show […]

  BIG BROTHER improved with a move to its regular timeslot. 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 […]