NOTE:  Sports preemptions may lead to some downward adjustments in afternoon numbers, especially for CW. 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 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Sunday is one of the few nights without any local football preemptions, so these adjustments are to the Monday preliminary numbers.  Thanks to CBS’s PGA CHAMPIONSHIP coverage as its lead-in, 60 MINUTES retained its preliminary 1.5 rating, and BIG BROTHER rose 0.1 to 2.1.  The MADAM SECRETARY rerun, however, lost 0.1 to 0.6.  […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  NOTE–because of NFL exhibition game preemptions, comparisons are to last week’s final Saturday ratings, rather than preliminary Sunday morning numbers.  NBC:  the GYMNASTICS special adjusted to 0.5, and HANNIBAL was steady at 0.3.  CBS:  PGA CHAMPIONSHIP coverage pushed the primetime line-up by half an hour, and all the night’s reruns were down 0.2, to 0.3/0.5/0.6.  ABC:  the […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  NOTE–Because of the NFL preseason preemptions on Friday night, comparisons are to last Friday’s numbers rather than the Saturday morning preliminaries.  ABC:  the SHARK TANK rerun was steady at 0.9, and WHAT WOULD YOU DO and 20/20 were each down 0.1 to 0.9 and 0.8.  CBS:  all the reruns were down, ELEMENTARY and HAWAII […]

  Neither of last night’s special events were particularly special. 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 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 15 and Sunday August 16, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. Football […]

  NOTE:  It was another night of NFL preseason pre-emptions, so don’t get too excited about the seeming boosts for BOSTON EMS and HANNIBAL.  We’ll take a closer look at the Saturday numbers in our network update report on Tuesday. A few specials dot tonight’s network line-up, with the TEEN CHOICE AWARDS on FOX, and […]

NOTE: This was another night where half a dozen NFL exhibition football games inflated the preliminary ratings, making week-to-week comparisons pointless.  We’ll hold our analysis for our Network Update post on Monday afternoon. Tonight’s major event is the season finale of POWER on Starz. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below […]