>Last night in the hit summer shows (NBC’s America’s Got Talent and FOX’s Hell’s Kitchen), we took a look at the priorities for new fall series promotion.  The big winners on NBC were the comedies Whitney and Up All Night.  Each comedy received one minute of on-air promotion across the two-hour telecast (one :30 spot […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The SNL Thanksgiving clip show and ALMOST FAMILY each lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.89 (Lakers vs. New Orleans)/0.57 (Brooklyn vs Boston), preceded by COLLEGE BASKETBALL at 0.37/0.24/0.18.  MTV’s THE […]

> The word “turkey” comes to mind when looking at last night’s pre-holiday landscape. ABC:  The cycle finale of DANCING WITH THE STARS was of course the highest rated show of the night and enough to give ABC the Tuesday win, but in keeping with the way this whole cycle has gone, it was distressingly […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The network tried to create a late-summer event night, but CINDERELLA: THE REUNION was at 0.30, and the 25th anniversary re-airing of CINDERELLA was at 0.24. CBS:  Reruns at 0.32/0.25/0.21. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT dipped 0.04 to 0.69, and PASSWORD was up 0.04 to 0.47. FOX:  Reruns at 0.16/0.14. CW:  LEONARDO […]

  Not even football is immune from broadcast ratings erosion. 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). […]

  Even in rerun form, SNL40 outperformed the usual NBC Friday line-up. 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). […]

  A Presidential Town Hall didn’t change the night. 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 […]

> Even with weakened competition on the other 2 networks, NBC and FOX weren’t able to capitalize. NBC:  There were holiday specials on ABC and reruns on CBS, and none of it did much for the NBC line-up.  COMMUNITY could only benefit by one or two ticks, and PARKS & RECREATION tied its season low.  […]