>It’s rare that a Saturday night has a huge impact on a sweep race, but last night featured a college football pairing between the #1 and #2 teams in the country on CBS.  In an SEC matchup for the ages, #1 LSU defeated #2 Alabama in overtime 9-6, earning a 6.4 Adult 18-49 rating in […]

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 30: July 18-24, 2022 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 15-16, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, September 16-17, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The season finale of NCIS, AMERICAN IDOL and THE FLASH each went up 0.1 in final numbers.  IZOMBIE lost 0.1.  CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  As the NBA PLAYOFFS get deeper toward the championship, the ratings are rising, with both games on TNT last night at 2.34–putting them above everything on broadcast TV for the night.  The […]

>Compared to last year, CBS is closest to the the network rating on the same night last November.  FOX is still way up over the final Thursday of the 2010 November sweep, and ABC and NBC are way down year-to-year.  On The CW, the theatrical flop Beneath the Blue managed only a 0.8 rating from […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.52/0.37/0.34. CBS:  Reruns at 0.28/0.26/0.24. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT ticked down to 0.73, and PASSWORD was down 0.05 to 0.43. FOX:  Reruns at 0.13/0.12. CW:  LEONARDO premiered at 0.04, and the season premiere of DEVILS was at 0.03. TELEMUNDO:  TOP CHEF VIP dropped 0.06 to 0.23, AMOR VALIENTE ticked […]

The AUDIENCE MAP series continues with a look back at the complete 2014-2015 television season.  FOX’s primetime lineup is shown below.  As a reminder, the programs are arranged by broadcast schedule, with each show placed on the night it spent most of the season.  The audience share for each of 30 gender-age subgroups is noted for […]

>FOX ratings last night were nearly identical to two Thursdays ago (the last time The X Factor and Bones were in originals).  Both shows last represent major time period improvements over the same night last year: The X Factor (3.1) vs Bones (2.3) last year at 8 pm, and Bones (2.9) vs Fringe (1.8) last […]