>FOX narrowly won Thursday night, with CBS back in a close second place, returning with original episodes of its line up after a two week break for college basketball.  Lest there be any doubt about ABC’s Missing or NBC’s Awake, both slipped again this week.  Stick another fork in the two midseason dramas.     […]

We’ve reached the broadcast networks’ Upfront Week… which used to be a lot more central to our television lives than it is now.  Ratings everywhere are down, and there’s no reason to think they’ve hit bottom, which has caused seismic changes in the ways networks make scheduling decisions.  Among other things, with revenues from on-air […]

        NETWORK FINALS;  After adjustment for football preemption, ABC’s CMA COUNTRY CHRISTMAS and THE GOOD DOCTOR, and NBC’s A VERY PENTATRONIX CHRISTMAS, all lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart       CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL dominated Monday cable, but had a steep 0.84 […]

> ABC’s Last Man Standing premiered with a very solid 3.5 Adult 18-49 rating from 8-9 pm, doubling the Dancing with the Stars repeat special in the time period last week (1.7 rating).  At 9 pm, Dancing with the Stars Results was up to a 3.2 rating (from 2.9 last week), while Body of Proof […]

> Basketball. CBS:  On a night when the other networks mostly didn’t choose to compete, some enormous upsets in the NCAA TOURNAMENT gave CBS a slam-dunk victory for the night with a (preliminary) 2.2, way higher than last year’s Day 2. CW:  NIKITA returned to the schedule after several weeks of reruns (that show has […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted up to 0.9, and NBC’s NHL ALL-STAR GAME adjusted down to 0.5.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Saturday cable, up 0.12 to 0.59.  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL games were at 0.56/0.41/0.37.  On a […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted in yesterday’s Network Scorecard text, the GOLDEN GLOBES adjusted to 5.0 in final numbers.  In addition, after football adjustments, THE SIMPSONS fell 0.6 to 2.8, and GHOSTED was down 0.2 to 1.6.  Elsewhere, the 9PM SHARK TANK rose 0.1 to 1.4.         Broadcast […]