NETWORK FINALS:  There was no real contest in the final numbers for the night’s broadcast COLLEGE FOOTBALL games, with ABC’s game at 3.9 and FOX’s at 0.5.  In addition, the rerun of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: […]

Clunk.  Game 1 of the World Series averaged a 3.4 adult 18-49 rating Tuesday, setting a new record low for the opening game of the Fall Classic.  The previous record low was a 3.6 in 2012 for San Francisco-Detroit and 2006 for St. Louis-Detroit.  For the record, the high in the Nielsen PeopleMeter era is a 12.4 adult […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The reruns of BLACK-ISH, MIXED-ISH and FBI: MOST WANTED lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Tuesday cable notched another win for Fox News, with TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.41/0.67/4.3M, while MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW was at […]

In 2003, ABC’s NYPD BLUE aired a scene that included a brief shot of actress Charlotte Ross getting into a shower, exposing her rear end and the side of her breast to the camera.  The Federal Communications Commission fined ABC $1.4 million for those moments, and it also fined FOX for profanity used by Cher […]

Note: The FOX WORLD SERIES Game 2 numbers below should rise about +25% in the official nationals later this afternoon when live viewing in Los Angeles and the West Coast from 5-8PM PT is factored in. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult […]

Over the weekend football continued to dominate the afternoon sports daypart.  On Saturday, college football filled the air, but only one game broke out: Stanford upsetting Oregon in prime time on ABC.  The other big upset (Kansas State at Baylor) aired opposite it on ESPN, but the game never really got off the ground since […]

  No good news for the shows that most needed it. ABC:  The second week of HAPPY ENDINGS‘ Big Friday Dump was even worse than the first, its two half-hours scoring 0.8/0.6, down from last week’s 1.1/1.0.  Creatively, the show is still in fine shape, so while its ABC career is clearly over, the question […]

  Another easy win for AMERICA’S GOT TALENT. 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 […]