SCANDAL had a solid exit. 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 the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE VOICE, TRANSPLANT, THE BACHELORETTE and the FBI: MOST WANTED, COSMOS and WEAKEST LINK reruns all gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL led Tuesday cable at 0.59/0.58, and the network’s CFP RANKINGS SHOW […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  STATION 19 gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The return of MTV’s JERSEY SHORE led Thursday cable at 0.52, with EX ON THE BEACH down 0.02 to 0.18, and RIDICULOUSNESS down 0.04 to 0.08.  TNT’s NBA […]

>GCB finally arrives Sunday night at 10 after Desperate Housewives, as it lurches toward its series finale in May.  With a little luck, we will stop hearing “we shall receive” in the ABC promos at a carpet-bombing rate of 45+ seconds per hour.  The light soap/drama from Robert Harling (creator of Sex and the City) […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  DESIGNATED SURVIVOR lost 0.1 in final numbers, and EMPIRE gained the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  FX’s AMERICAN HORROR STORY tends to start very big and then plunge before stabilizing, and the pattern held with a 0.99 drop from last […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  WINTER OLYMPICS coverage adjusted to 5.4.  In addition, 60 MINUTES gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO’s HERE AND NOW had an unpromising premiere at 0.20 (particularly bad because it had a 0.60 lead-in from another […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s Alabama vs. USC game adjusted up 0.1 to 2.5 in final numbers.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE ORIGINALS:  COLLEGE FOOTBALL dominated Saturday cable, with games and related programming occupying 11 of the Top 12 slots.  (ESPN alone had 10 of those, […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  Both NCIS and NCIS: NEW ORLEANS gained 0.1 in final numbers for their crossover episodes.  The rest of the networks, including the NBC Dick Wolf crossover and FOX’s sitcoms, stayed as-is. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Let’s take a minute to dig into MTV’s numbers last […]