The regular season hasn’t started yet, but the NFL is already in charge. NBC:  Per Mitch Metcalf, although preliminary numbers have the Sunday night NFL PRESEASON FOOTBALL game at a 2.1, we anticipate that final numbers will bring that to 2.6, easily winning the night for NBC. CBS:  BIG BROTHER rose 0.2 to 2.3, […]

Tuesday ratings last night, last year and last week.  President Obama’s address on Syria interrupted network schedules to varying degrees at 9 pm ET last night, with NBC sliding America’s Got Talent a little over 15 minutes, while CBS was closer to a half-hour slide of the 9 and 10 pm repeat dramas.  ABC devoted […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 6, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   College Football Week 6 Top Games on Saturday 4.6 rating ABC 8:00 pm #4 Ohio State […]

  DRACULA:  Friday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… A century of vampire movies and TV shows has taught us that undead is by no means the same as lifeless, but NBC’s new excavation of DRACULA doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo.  Produced on a lavish scale (at least in the […]

  FOX:  The debut of FOX’s regular Friday night line-up didn’t go very well.  The costs of a Friday move were high for BONES, which plunged 0.8 from this past Monday to a new low 1.2, also down 0.3 from last week’s MasterChef Jr in that slot.  It was only able to edge past NBC […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday December 7 and Sunday December 8, 2013. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   College Football Week 15: Top National Games Saturday 8.7 rating CBS 4:00 #5-Missouri vs #3-Auburn 8.4 […]

  The night was dominated by football and its aftereffects, but there were some other (dimmer) bright spots.  Note:  we don’t yet have a rating for the PBS season debut of Downton Abbey. FOX:  Our projection is that the overrun of the NFC WILD CARD PLAYOFF GAME, which pushed the network’s primetime schedule by about […]

  Viewers really wanted to see the Mother‘s side of the story. CBS:  The 200th episode of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, told from the Mother character’s point of view, leaped 0.7 to a season high 3.8, and seemed to perk up the network’s entire line-up.  (CBS is so going to miss Mother next fall.) […]