> As football season approaches its regular-season climax, viewers just can’t get enough of it. ABC:  The network’s female-oriented line-up is meant to survive football, but ABC has been shooting itself in the foot in recent weeks.  Last night was the 2d time in 3 weeks that ONCE UPON A TIME was the only regular […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from this morning’s preliminary ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The night’s high-profile premieres were both at the level of “OK.”  Syfy’s HAPPY opened at 0.40, a solid number for that network.  On History, KNIGHTFALL started […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE GOLDBERGS gained 0.03 to 0.49, and THE WONDER YEARS lost 0.03 to 0.31.  After a rerun of THE CONNERS at 0.26, HOME ECONOMICS was up 0.02 to 0.28.  A MILLION LITTLE THINGS was down 0.03 to 0.26. CBS:  SURVIVOR rose 0.07 to 0.86, and BEYOND THE EDGE was down 0.02 […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday July 14-15, 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, July 15-16, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The ABC portion of the primetime Christmas NBA game adjusted to 2.7, up an impressive 0.9 from last year’s game (which wasn’t shared with ESPN).          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     NOTE:  At this time, we have no Tuesday cable ratings lower than […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 24 and Sunday January 25, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL Sunday 5.6 rating ESPN 8:00 pm Pro Bowl: Team Carter vs Team Irvin College Basketball […]

It looks like NBC suffered its first Sunday defeat of the new season.  The Sunday Night Football game certainly out-rated Game 4 of the World Series, but FOX built a commanding lead in the 7 pm hour alone with the controversial (and widely-viewed) end of the New York Giants-Dallas Cowboys NFL game.  ABC has stabilized […]

  Special events paid off for two networks. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). ‘Ratings analysis and comparisons […]