Don’t get too excited by those preliminary NBC numbers. 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 […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 9 through Sunday August 15, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

      BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS rose 0.14 to 0.53, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD ticked up to 0.62, THE CHASE aired a new episode at 0.60, and TO TELL THE TRUTH returned at 0.47.  CBS:  60 MINUTES ticked down to 0.44, and BIG BROTHER gained a tenth to 1.06.  Reruns followed at […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Due to NFL PRESEASON preemptions, comparisons are to last Saturday’s final numbers rather than Sunday’s preliminaries.  On NBC, as expected the HANNIBAL finale lost most of its initial gain, but it did edge up 0.1 to 0.3, after 0.4 for an AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR rerun.  The NFL PRESEASON game on CBS (Seattle vs. […]

Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 38: September 12-18, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  The TEEN CHOICE AWARDS continued to sink. 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 […]

    Tell the understudies to start learning their lines, as NBC wants it to be known that the Season 2 version of SMASH, under new showrunner Josh Safran, will be markedly different from the generally assailed Season 1.  No less than 4 major characters are being written out, and all the exits target the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from preliminary ratings for Friday night.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH ruled Friday cable once again, up 0.03 to 1.00, with lead-out TREASURE QUEST down 0.04 to 0.45.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader games (Houston […]