The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 11 and Sunday June 12, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year.  Click here […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl game stayed at 0.7 after adjustment.  Elsewhere, the CHICAGO PD rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun of THE GOLDBERGS dropped 0.1.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN was firmly in control of Wednesday cable with […]

  CBS has won the competition to carry 8 fall NFL games on Thursday nights.  Price wasn’t disclosed, but the network is believed to be paying in the neighborhood of $300M for the games, or about $37.5M per game.  (All the broadcast networks and several cablers bid for the rights, as reportedly did Google.)  In […]

>American Idol returned to the air down 26% from last year.  It still dominates the night, but it raises many questions.  Is the singing contest sub-genre tired as a whole?  Did X Factor lessen interest in Idol‘s return?  Are viewers tiring of the Idol judges?  And most intriguingly, is this a good sign or a […]

  With most of another week’s ratings in the books, CBS, FOX and NBC took care of business today–although the first two networks handed out promotions while the Peacock issued pink slips. CBS gave back orders to its new sitcoms THE MILLERS, THE CRAZY ONES and MOM.  Millers was a no-brainer–it’s been consistently holding on […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and the rerun of AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while MIDNIGHT, TEXAS lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Although the season premiere of Comedy Central’s SOUTH PARK was the clear winner of Wednesday […]

    The calendar may say it’s too early for the dog days of summer, but they’ve arrived at CBS.   CBS:  DOGS IN THE CITY fell sharply from its low debut to an awful 0.9, below most of the reruns on NBC and ABC.  After that, procedural reruns were at 1.2-1.3. FOX:  The night’s […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  The season premiere of THE GOLDBERGS was at 0.70, down a tenth from last fall’s premiere.  THE WONDER YEARS premiered very compatibly at 0.67.  The live season premiere of THE CONNERS was at 0.65, down from 0.9 for last year’s live premiere.  The season premiere of HOME ECONOMICS was at 0.41, […]