NETWORK FINALS:  THE AMAZING RACE and the rerun of SPEECHLESS gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE BLACKLIST and SVU lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1’s BLACK INK CREW shared the lead in Wednesday cable, despite a 0.11 drop […]

Another week of prime time ratings, and only FOX can claim a full week average over a 2 rating with adults 18-49 for the week ending last night.  ABC has a particularly steep decline versus the same week last year, which included The Oscars. Weekly Rating Feb 25-Mar 3 18-49 Rating Vs Last Year FOX 2.19 […]

  A grand-slam home run. 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 follow the chart. […]

Without The Voice to support it, Smash started its second season with a ratings trainwreck to match the creative disaster that is the show.  Read Mitch Salem’s review here. Half-hour ratings for network television last night are shown below.  Most notably, Smash started at 1.3 rating with adults 18-49 (already down from its very modest lead-in, Betty White’s 2nd Annual 90th Birthday — […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  On another holiday night of reruns, the results for each network were as follows:  ABC 0.19-0.34, CBS 0.67/0.29 (THE PRICE IS RIGHT AT NIGHT was easily the night’s highest-rated show), NBC 0.26-0.29, FOX 0.24, CW 0.05-0.10.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Once again, ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl […]

Grey’s has still got it–other veteran shows don’t. ABC:  The GREY’S ANATOMY was up 0.4 from last week to a robust 3.9, its highest rating in months.  That helped push the SCANDAL season finale to a series high 2.4.  Earlier in the evening, MISSING departed forever with a comparatively tiny 1.3 (although that was up […]

  A win for SHARK TANK. 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 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  NCIS and the rerun of THE FLASH lost 0.1 in final numbers, and the rerun JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE also went down 0.1 to an even more anemic 0.4.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  History’s CURSE OF OAK ISLAND was again at […]