The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday February 20 and Sunday February 21, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. NBA Saturday 2.64 rating ABC 8:30 […]

  To no one’s surprise, NBC has announced midseason sitcom launches that try to take maximum adventage of the upcoming Winter Olympics–and The Voice.  Starting on February 25, the first Tuesday after the Olympics ends, ABOUT A BOY and GROWING UP FISHER will air in the 9PM hour, running directly after the Tuesday edition of […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The rerun NCIS: LA gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun of THE SIMPSONS lost the same.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Syfy’s WYNONNA EARP returned with a 0.13 premiere, up a tick from its last premiere in July […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The NFL KICKOFF GAME adjusted to 6.7.  Elsewhere, BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV’s JERSEY SHORE easily led Thursday cable at 0.86, up 0.06 from last week, but PRETTY LITTLE MAMAS was down 0.06 to […]

  NOTE: Network news special reports last night for the Impeachment vote in the House of Representatives interrupted some programming. Precise program start and end times with actual program ratings will be available later this afternoon. The numbers below are time period numbers with approximate schedules as a rough guide. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program […]

>The place where the scheduling team meets is usually an executive conference room in the network’s NY headquarters.  If you’ve ever seen a movie about network TV, you’ll know the magnetic board on which  strips bearing show titles are attached and shuffled around the walls, but actually these days this process, like everything else, has […]

Here are the full week sports ratings (such as they are) for Monday April 27 through Sunday May 3, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is […]

NBC eked out a narrow victory Tuesday, averaging a 2.3 Adult 18-49 rating in prime time.  America’s Got Talent returned to the air with a 2.7 rating from 8-10 pm, exactly where it was on July 24, the last Tuesday telecast before the Olympics.   This time last summer (Tuesday, August 16, 2011) AGT scored a 2.9 rating. […]