The newcomers didn’t impress. 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 and comparisons follow […]
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the 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) give plenty of notes, helpful and otherwise, and critics begin to […]
NETWORK FINALS: There were no changes from the preliminary Tuesday ratings. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: News was at the top of Tuesday cable, with Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.39/0.61/4M, MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW at 0.32/0.49/3.8M, and CNN TONIGHT at […]
>Nobody wanted to watch TV last night. ABC: The premiere of Shonda Rhimes’ SCANDAL tied PRIVATE PRACTICE‘s 2.1 season low, a very unencouraging start. This followed new series lows for GREY’S ANATOMY and MISSING (2.8 and 1.4, respectively), making for a night of failure. FOX: AMERICAN IDOL fell to a series low 3.8, but even […]
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 […]
Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday March 11-12, 2017. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K 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, March 12-13, […]
POWERLESS is starting to look that way. 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). Ratings analysis and comparisons […]
>What an ugly night Tuesday has become. Between the Daylight Saving Time effect early in the evening, a bumper crop of repeats, mid-season shows that are going nowhere, and a million other options (including streaming, DVR playback, local sports, and for the lucky audience in LA: freeway police chases on KCAL), no broadcast network last […]