Only the return of football livened things up. 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 […]

The Independence Day holiday weekend will cause delays for daily national ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days.  This is how the ratings should roll out the next several days. We will update this schedule if anything changes.  (All times Pacific. Also, * denotes normal release time.) Wednesday July 3 nationals available Monday Jul 8 afternoon Thursday […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Things didn’t get better for THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL in finals, which adjusted to 3.4, down 1.1 from last week’s game.  There were no other changes from morning numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The pinch was felt on the NFL […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS dipped 0.05 to 0.54, and THE WONDER YEARS fell 0.15 to 0.39.  Following a rerun of THE CONNERS at 0.30, HOME ECONOMICS was down 0.09 to 0.29.  A SUPERSTAR special was at 0.28. CBS:  SURVIVOR climbed 0.09 to 1.01, TOUGH AS NAILS slipped 0.02 to 0.41, and CSI: VEGAS […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The rerun of BULL and the movie LOVE THE COOPERS gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the rerun WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY lost the same.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFFS games dominated Monday cable at 1.19/0.96.  TLC’s […]

  A big night for CBS’s sitcoms. 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 and […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Another night of reruns, with these results:  ABC 0.14-0.33, CBS 0.22-0.41, NBC 0.24-0.27, FOX 0.38/0.17, CW 0.10.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl games owned the night, led by the primetime PEACH BOWL at 1.80 and other games at 1.23/0.86/0.58.  Cable news was led […]

  With the need to replace The Colbert Report now that its host will be leaving for network pastures when his contract expires at the end of 2014, and knowing that since that show is built entirely around Stephen Colbert’s particular character, the new series would necessarily be very different, Comedy Central had a very […]