There were a multitude of disruptions to preliminary ratings last night, including NFL preemptions on ABC in NY and NBC in Cleveland, as well as a Presidential address.  Given all the expected adjustments, we’ll hold our ratings analysis for this afternoon’s final numbers. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below […]

  In the end, it wasn’t all that close. 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). Ratings analysis and […]

>On a night overshadowed by the BCS National Championship college football game on sister network ESPN (Alabama shutting out LSU — ratings available later), ABC decided to go with female-skewing originals, narrowly beating the other broadcast networks with a 2.2 Adult 18-49 rating.  The Bachelor was down two tenths of a rating point in its […]

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look at fall 2015:  FOX’s primetime lineup is shown below.  As a reminder, the programs are arranged by broadcast schedule, with each show placed on the night it spent most of the season so far.  The audience share for each of 30 gender-age subgroups is noted for each show, […]

>With ABC and CBS in repeats in the first night after the February sweep concluded, American Idol rebounded a bit, while NBC had a very quiet opening for the new drama Awake.                 Nightly Adult 18-49 Rating Thursday     FOX    NBC    CBS    ABC    03.01.2012   […]

  A down night for some veterans. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  BLINDSPOT lost 0.1 in final numbers, and JANE THE VIRGIN gained the same.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On A&E, BATES MOTEL returned at 0.66, up 0.08 from last season’s finale (but down 0.02 from the prior episode, and off 0.26 […]

  BEYOND THE TANK did what it was designed to do. 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). Ratings […]