AMERICAN CRIME is turning into a felony. 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 comparisons […]

Top cable and broadcast programs of the week (with last week for comparison).  Now that we are in the summer, swimming with repeats, we have extended the list to include programs with a 1.3 or 1.4 adult 18-49 rating. Looking ahead to the new week: Next week’s chart for June 3-9 will be topped by […]

FOX ruled summer Wednesday yet again last night with a 2.4 preliminary Adults 18-49 rating for So You Think You Can Dance from 8-10 pm (down from a 2.7 last week and a 2.8 on the same night last year). It wasn’t like there was any competition on the other networks.  CBS finished a very weak second with a 1.1 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.2 in adjusted numbers, although at 3.7, that still left it far behind last year’s 4.9 season finale.  Elsewhere, GREY’S ANATOMY lost 0.1. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  With no NBA game scheduled, Spike’s LIP SYNC BATTLE took a share of the Thursday cable lead, up 0.07 from last week […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday January 13 through Sunday January 19, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the same […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.28/0.27. CBS:  The broadcast NCAA TOURNAMENT games were at 1.09/1.23. NBC:  LOPEZ VS LOPEZ dipped 0.03 to 0.20, GRAND CREW ticked down to 0.13, and DATELINE was down 0.07 to 0.21. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN lost a tick to 0.58. CW:  The new WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY ticked down […]

  The broadcast network elevator continued to go down. 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 […]

  Neither of last night’s special events were particularly special. 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 […]