The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 16 and Sunday April 17, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. Golf PGA: The Heritage (Hilton Head […]

On a night that featured gold medal victories for US women’s soccer, women’s water polo and men’s decathlon (none of which are particularly TV-friendly events), NBC Olympic coverage in prime time averaged a preliminary 6.8 Adult 18-49 rating, on track to be the lowest-rated night so far from London and lower than the same night […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday September 16 through Sunday September 22, 2019.  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 […]

A fairly ho-hum Sunday night on the broadcast networks, with only NBC and a few hours on CBS on the air with original programming. Sunday Night Football (Detroit Lions at San Francisco 49ers) will be about an 8 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8:30 pm on, when the official nationals are released tomorrow.  With the pre-game […]

A genuine changing of the guard. NBC:  REVOLUTION slipped a bit last night (to 3.2), but it commandingly beat up both CBS and ABC, and is looking like a true hit, at least in the short term.  THE VOICE, of course, provided a dominating 4.5 lead-in that didn’t hurt. CBS:  This was supposed to be […]

  Another week’s worth of ratings are in, and once again, we ask:  what do we know now that we didn’t know a week ago? NEXT CALLER MUST HAVE BEEN A REALLY, REALLY BAD SHOW.  Last week NBC stopped production on Next Caller, a single-camera sitcom slated for midseason that starred Dane Cook as a […]

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 […]

World Series Game 2 is losing to the CBS Thursday lineup in the fast nationals (2.9 to 3.2 with Adults 18-49), but the game should rise to about a 3.3 in the official nationals when the Western live viewing is tabulated correctly.  This assumes a fast-to-official nationals increase of about 14%, similar to Game 1’s […]