EMPIRE:  Midseason TBD on FOX THE FACTS:  Think Nashville, but with a hip-hop beat and an A-level pedigree.  Music tycoon Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) is dying–although not just yet–and has to decide who between his two sons will inherit his giant company, causing all manner of family scheming.  Complicating things further:  his ex-wife (Taraji […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The NCIS rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, FOX’s ALCS MLB PLAYOFFS game adjusted to 1.5.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports, as usual, dominated cable on a fall Saturday.  ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL games were at 2.01 (Florida […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  WORLD OF DANCE, both BLACK-ISH reruns and the FBI rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On another major news night, CNN TONIGHT was on top at 0.73/0.97/2.8M, with Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.55/0.89/5M, […]

  May Sweeps didn’t begin with a (big) BANG. 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 and […]

>The fast national ratings (100% of the country measured but the western time zones inaccurately counted) give last night’s Academy Awards a preliminary 10.2 rating with Adults 18-49 and 34.3 million viewers 2+.  Now, before we give ourselves an Oscar for our prediction, remember the fast nationals will be adjusted upward as the Pacific time […]

> The close of the 2011/12 broadcast season is starting to approach, and networks are beginning to specify their plans for summer (which in TV terms begins in late May).  FOX, unlike some of the other networks, is not planning to air any new scripted programming in the post-season, so all their original shows will […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game adjusted up 0.3 to 0.7, and FOX’s BIG EAST game adjusted down 0.2 to 0.2.  In addition, ONE NIGHT FOR ONE DROP, RANSOM and the SNL rerun all lost 0.1 in final numbers.        Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  AMERICAN IDOL, THE BIG BANG THEORY, 2 1/2 MEN and ELEMENTARY all found an extra 0.1 in final ratings.  MOM (which probably started at 8:31PM) and the HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER rerun each lost 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other […]