Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 48: November 22-28, 2021 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

>Once again football tops the weekly cable ratings chart.  ESPN’s Monday Night Football was in its usual #1 position with a solid 5.6 Adult 18-49 rating, but the big number was turned in by the NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football (a very good 4.1 rating, almost double the performance of the franchise two weeks ago).  […]

    Ratings in key demosfor the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): 7 of the day’s top 13 spots went to COLLEGE FOOTBALL on ESPN, Fox Sports 1 and ESPN2, with ESPN’s 10PM (eastern) game topping the night at 0.94.  HBO’s WCB boxing was at 0.58/0.52/0.36, and […]

  Reruns under the tree. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 follows the chart. […]

Super Bowl tracks for metered market overnight ratings below.  National ratings will be posted as available. Super Bowl Ratings Track: HOUSEHOLDS (HH) Metered Markets National Last ten years  HH Rtg Shr HH Rtg Shr 2018 NBC PHI  41 NE   33 47.4 — 43.1 68 2017 FOX NE   34 ATL 28 48.8 72 45.3 70 2016 CBS […]

>   A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season:  a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover in the off-season) give plenty of notes, both helpful and otherwise, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NBC’s STANLEY CUP FINALS adjusted to 1.6.  Elsewhere, the MAN WITH A PLAN rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Things were no better for Monday cable’s big premiere, as AMC’s DIETLAND managed just an 0.16 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for SHARK TANK and THE BLACKLIST.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.44/0.35.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.41/0.27 compared to last week’s 0.53/0.36, and MYSTERY OF BLIND […]