>Compared to the same night last year, it was a weak night for FOX and NBC, while CBS and ABC were up one tenth of a rating point.  Updated sweep scoreboards follow and program details can be found by clicking “read more”.            NOVEMBER SWEEP LAST NIGHT          2011 vs 2010 Day 20                  2011    2010          […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  THE OLYMPICS adjusted up to 6.5 last night, still below the parallel night at Turin 2006 and farther behind the North American 2002/2010 games.  Of course, CPMs (the price paid by advertisers for commercial time) have gone up in the past 8 years, so a 6.5 yields more revenue now than it […]

PGA golf was the big winner this weekend (May 11-12, 2013), thanks to a resurgent Tiger Woods, who won his fourth tournament this year at the mini-major TPC in Florida.  NBC was up almost 50% over last year for the weekend coverage and up almost 70% for Sunday’s final round as Woods cruised to victory […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 6.1.  Football-related adjustments on other networks pushed the reruns of THE SIMPSONS and BOB’S BURGERS down by 1.2 each, 60 MINUTES and THE SIMPSONS down 0.4, and GOD FRIENDED ME, BOB’S BURGERS and the MAGNUM PI rerun down 0.1.         Broadcast […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 30 and Sunday January 31, 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. NFL 5.03 rating ESPN 7:00 pm […]

>When all the Sked PLAYERS gather in New York, the pilots have been screened for the network’s own executives, but the only “real people” who’ve seen them are those participating in Research testing.  The results of those tests become the only “objective” data regarding the appeal of a given show, so they’re a critical part […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Game 5 of the NBA FINALS adjusted up to 6.8 in final ratings, 0.8 above its preliminary number.  (The 2013 Finals lasted to Game 7, and adjusted all the way up to a 10.6 rating for that game, which is why networks don’t root for teams, they root for long series.)  The […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The finale of WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT dropped 0.05 to 0.40, and the final LET THE WORLD SEE was down 0.07 to 0.31. CBS:  YOUNG SHELDON rose a tenth to 0.83, UNITED STATES OF AL held at 0.53, GHOSTS gained 0.03 to 0.68, and B POSITIVE ticked up to 0.50.  BULL […]