NETWORK FINALS:  There were some significant adjustments due to local NFL preemptions.  ABC’s BACHELOR IN PARADISE fell 0.3, and the rerun of THE GOOD DOCTOR was down 0.02, while the entire CW line-up was down 0.1.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The season […]

NOTE: ABC and CW numbers below are inflated somewhat by major-market pre-emptions for the Monday Night Football doubleheader on ESPN nationally. ABC stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose carried the late game (Rams-Raiders in west coast primetime), while WPIX in New York (CW) carried the Jets-Lions game in east/central primetime. Any Detroit pre-emption […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  PINK COLLAR CRIMES, DATELINE and the 9PM 48 HOURS lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL owned Saturday cable, with games and related programming on ESPN and ESPN2 holding 8 of the Top 9 slots, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 7.5, down 1.6 from the premiere Sunday game in 2017.  Elsewhere, REL had a 0.2 football adjustment up to 1.9, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, while 60 MINUTES and the HAWAII 5-0 and FAMLY GUY reruns lost the same.        […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 8-9, 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, September 9-10, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no adjustments from Friday’s preliminary ratings.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  There was an unlikely tie for the 18-49 lead in Friday’s cable ratings, with ESPN2’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game at 0.33.  That was the same as MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW […]

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 2). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]

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 2). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS […]