Several TV institutions tottered last night. ABC:  It’s going to be awfully hard to justify a back order for LAST RESORT, which plunged 0.4 to a terrible 1.3.  Perhaps even scarier for ABC was GREY’S ANATOMY.  The show has been steadily sinking since its season premiere (last night’s episode was the first of the fall […]

  Daylight Savings Time only made ABC’s Sunday troubles worse. ABC:  It’s getting harder to label ONCE UPON A TIME as a “hit,” with last night’s episode tying its series-low 2.2 and the numbers not much higher than that over the past 6 weeks.  Last night was down 0.7 from the same Sunday last year.  REVENGE fell below […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 29 and Sunday June 30, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   Stop the presses!   Major League Baseball was the top sporting event this weekend.  Not because […]

With the 2016 Democratic National Convention kicking off in Philadelphia, we will be covering the daily ratings battle for the television audience starting Tuesday afternoon, just as we did for the RNC in Cleveland.  Beyond the number of viewers watching, it is often helpful to take a step back and look more deeply at who is watching. Specifically […]

  There was very little interest in the return of EXTANT, rebooted or otherwise. 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 […]

> Another Sunday, or as NBC likes to think of it, The Only Night That Should Count. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME barely slipped from last week, proving its full season pick-up was well deserved.  DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES continues its limp to the finish line, while the only good news for PAN AM is that CBS’s […]

  Football was the night’s main attraction. 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 follows the chart. […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 17-18, 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, November 18-19, […]