>CBS was up a touch from last week, thanks to high ratings from the NCAA basketball tournament flowing into prime time.  The bad news is that basketball ended at 7:18 pm, so the impact was not as substantial as if the game had ended around 7:30 or 7:45.  The other broadcast networks were similar to […]

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 19: May 1-7, 2023 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  CBS’s last-minute substitution paid off. 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 […]

> CBS won the night last night, mostly with the NCAA Basketball Championship.  The preliminary rating for the night matches last year’s mark, although the individual program ratings for CBS Monday (two comedy repeats and the basketball game) will be adjusted significantly as the time zone viewing is sorted out on this unusually formatted night.  […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A broadcast run of THE 1619 PROJECT was at 0.23. CBS:  Reruns at 0.30/0.20. NBC:  Reruns at 0.23/0.23/0.20/0.20. FOX:  MASTERCHEF rose 0.07 to 0.40, and FOOD STARS was up 0.02 to 0.29. CW:  The final season premiere of NANCY DREW was at 0.05, steady with its 2021 premiere.  RIVERDALE jumped 0.04 […]

  A Duke nail-biter gave a big boost to CBS. 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). […]

>The most recent Promo Watch numbers are based on prime time broadcast network programming between April 10 and April 16, with about 8 hours of programming sampled for each network over that period.  (Click “read more” to see the latest chart.)CBS.  Freshman police drama NYC 22 became the #1 CBS on-air promotion priority over the […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After a rerun at 0.18, 20/20 fell 0.18 to 0.17. CBS:  Reruns at 0.22/0.17/0.19. NBC:  After a rerun at 0.19, DATELINE was at 0.25. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN lost 0.06 to 0.61. CW:  Following reruns at 0.06/0.08, GREAT AMERICAN JOKE OFF ticked up to 0.06. TELEMUNDO:  TOP CHEF VIP slipped 0.02 to […]