Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 15-16, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K 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, […]

  The night belonged to country music.   CBS:  With virtually no competition on any other network, the ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS romped to a 4.3, easily winning the night and up from 3.1 last year.  However, without last week’s NCAA overrun bump, 60 MINUTES was down 1.1 from last week to 1.4. NBC:  […]

  Even with a slip from last week, Mondays still belong to The Voice. NBC:  THE VOICE was down 0.4 from last week, a number that nevertheless doubled the next-highest rated show of the night.  Currently REVOLUTION is at its third consecutive season-low 2.2, but the show has tended to drop a bit in final […]

  FRIDAY STARZ:  DA VINCI’S DEMONS stayed at an 0.2 rating in the 18-49 demo, and had a very slight increase among older viewers to give it 420K.  With such a serialized storyline, it seems unlikely to move much higher for the remainder of the season. SATURDAY BBCAMERICA:  It’s a shame that ORPHAN BLACK is […]

Monday ratings. Original episode track  

  Last night’s festival of season/series finales was also a riot of off-hour running times, and there will be more than the usual number of afternoon adjustments once final numbers are on.  The analysis below features updated American Idol, The Office  and Hannibal numbers from the ones in this morning’s chart.  Note from the “if […]

  Only one show on network TV last night beat Sunday’s Game of Thrones and its 2.8 rating–even though that show is available in only 1/3 of US households. NBC:  The one winner, naturally, was THE VOICE, but it was close, as the singing competition stayed even with last week’s Monday low 3.2.  The season […]

Updated with official national ratings below for Game 7. ABC may be as happy this morning as Miami’s fans are, with what will probably be the highest network rating we see for quite a while. ABC:  Per Mitch Metcalf:  NBA Finals Game 7 scored a preliminary 8.7 adult 18-49 in the fast nationals, and we […]