>ESPN’s coverage of the BCS National Championship for college football Monday tops the cable ratings chart for the week of January 3-9.  This year’s 8.7 rating for the title game is down from a 10.1 last year — not surprising because LSU was shut out. MTV’s Jersey Shore season premiere was the top entertainment program […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  OLYMPICS coverage adjusted up 0.1 to 6.9 in final numbers.  In addition, the MADTV rerun lost 0.1.   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN led Tuesday cable, up 0.01 from last week to 0.82. OWN’s THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS slipped 0.06 to 0.79.  On Freeform, PRETTY LITTLE LIARS lost […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday May 31 through Sunday June 6, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday May 10 through Sunday May 16, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.38/0.30/0.15. CBS:  Reruns at 0.22/0.25/0.28. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT ticked down to 0.65, and HOT WHEELS was down 0.06 to 0.25. FOX:  A movie was at 0.12. CW:  The season finale of SUPERMAN & LOIS was at 0.10, up a tick from last week and down 0.02 from the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE SIMPSONS rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, while 60 MINUTES and IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE dropped the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Christmas Eve was almost empty of meaningful original programming, and most of what rated were sports […]

NOTE: This was another night where half a dozen NFL exhibition football games inflated the preliminary ratings, making week-to-week comparisons pointless.  We’ll hold our analysis for our Network Update post on Monday afternoon. Tonight’s major event is the season finale of POWER on Starz. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below […]

  SURVIVING JACK:  Thursday 9:30PM on FOX – Change the Channel SURVIVING JACK is a Mortifying Parent Sitcom, which isn’t much of a surprise, since it originated with Justin Halpern, who wrote the book that became the short-lived sitcom S#!* My Dad Says and also wrote the book I Suck At Girls, which inspired this […]