NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s MLB baseball coverage adjusted to 0.2 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s UFC FIGHT NIGHT PRELIMS led Saturday cable at 0.29.  Discovery’s Shark Week continued with SHARKS GONE WILD at 0.24, SHARKS OF GHOST ISLAND at […]

  BACHELOR IN PARADISE stayed steady with 2018. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CBS’s PRESEASON NFL game adjusted down 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, local preemptions brought everything else down (except the rerun of FRESH OFF THE BOAT), with 0.1 drops for the rest of ABC and all of NBC.  FOX’s BIG3 BASKETBALL lost 0.3, and the CW line-up was down […]

  A very big night for The Blacklist, although we won’t know just how big until this afternoon. NBC:  Last night’s preliminary numbers are probably inflated by the local New Orleans station’s coverage of NFL Football.  But even if the fall finale of THE BLACKLIST comes down from its current 3.5 (which is up half […]

Here are the full week sports ratings (slowly coming back) for Monday June 1 through Sunday June 7, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The New Year’s Eve ratings adjustments were 0.1 changes to reruns, down for SEAL TEAM and DATELINE, up for the 9PM THE WALL.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  There was very little new on cable TV on New Year’s Eve.  […]

Past Winter Olympic Same Night (Second Saturday) P18-49 live+same day ratings: 2014 Sochi 4.4, 2010 Vancouver 7.4, 2006 Turin 6.3, 2002 Salt Lake City 8.8 Last night’s NBC Olympic fast nationals should rise about +1% in the official nationals. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics […]

>American Idol resumed its downward drift (after a brief uptick last week) and Touch set a new low, but FOX still won the night with CBS in repeats and ABC and NBC in originals.                    Nightly Adult 18-49 Rating Thursday     FOX    NBC    CBS    […]