NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was at 0.58/0.49/0.32, compared to last week’s 0.39/0.33/0.22.  A&E’s LIVE PD gained 0.03 to 0.56, with the lead-in hour up 0.02 to 0.28.  […]

  NBC is having an abysmal season, and here’s the thing:  it’s actually worse than it looks.  How is that even possible? you ask.  Right now, Mitch Metcalf’s estimate is that by the end of the season, NBC’s primetime average will be 2.07, putting it ahead of only ABC and its 1.86.  But he also […]

The NBA playoffs continued on three networks this weekend, and the eight games collectively were very close to the comparable games last year (+1% overall).  The two ABC games were the highest-rated by far: a 5.0 household rating for Miami-Milwaukee and 4.1 rating for New York-Boston (in Nielsen’s 56 metered markets that comprise 70% of […]

  THE GOOD DOCTOR returned for the first part of its finale. 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 […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals).  CBS racks up another victory (helped by an hour of The Masters spilling into prime time Sunday). Weekly Rating Apr 8-14 18-49 Rating vs Last Year CBS 2.44 -0.6% Down from 2.68 last week FOX […]

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). ###

CBS Sports continues its springtime roll, with The Masters coverage over the weekend up about 25% from last year.  Sunday’s final round hit an impressive 10.2 household rating in the 56 local markets measured by Nielsen (covering 70% of the country). NASCAR on Saturday night on FOX averaged a 3.5 household rating, down a tenth […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 19-20, 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, November 21-22, […]