>The place where the scheduling team meets is usually an executive conference room in the network’s NY headquarters.  If you’ve ever seen a movie about network TV, you’ll know the magnetic board on which  strips bearing show titles are attached and shuffled around the walls, but actually these days this process, like everything else, has […]

  A year-to-year dip for the DANCING WITH THE STARS season finale. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  The finale of JEOPARDY MASTERS rose 0.11 to 0.61, and THE PRANK PANEL premiered at 0.30.  THE GAME SHOW SHOW fell 0.09 to 0.19. CBS:  The season finale of SURVIVOR was at 0.69, down 0.02 from last week and down a tenth from last May. NBC:  On season finale night, CHICAGO […]

The top cable programs of the week that competed against the early nights of the London Summer Olympics (True Blood on HBO Sunday, Keeping Up with the Kardashians on E! Sunday, VH1’s Love and Hip Hop Atlanta on Monday) were close to their normal levels, with the Kardashians slightly above normal.  Even with a 10 or 11 rating on a broadcast network, […]

  THE NIGHT SHIFT demonstrated the value of a lead-in. 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 […]

NOTE: We won’t have Thursday cable ratings until next week, but it’s a good bet that NFL Network’s THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL will dominate the eventual Christmas Eve ratings.  Meanwhile, the San Diego at Oakland game likely had very little impact on the broadcast fast nationals.  With two west coast teams involved, any local broadcast pre-emptions […]

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 29: July 13-19, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  There was more drama on screen than at the ratings box for the SLEEPY HOLLOW season finale. 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 […]