Another false positive? ABC:  SUPER FUN NIGHT started strong last night, holding onto 75% of its MODERN FAMILY lead-in for a 3.2 rating.  However, that’s the same number The Neighbors did in its debut last year–and now it’s fighting for its life on Fridays.  THE MIDDLE dropped 0.3 from last week to 2.2, and BACK […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday April 22-23, 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, April 23-24, […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  WORLD SERIES GAME 1 ended up adjusted to 4.2, a bit below where we anticipated but still 0.6 above last year’s Game 1.  Nothing else moved more than 0.1 from the morning numbers, but it’s noteworthy that THE TOMORROW PEOPLE edged up to 0.7, a more solid CW number, and since MODERN […]

  This was the first Wednesday in a while not to feature special circumstances (World Series games, the CMAs), and things returned pretty much to normal. ABC:  All the network’s shows were within 0.1 of their last regular airings.  THE MIDDLE rose 0.1 to 2.3, BACK IN THE GAME was similarly up to 1.8, MODERN […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  MODERN FAMILY and ARROW both rose 0.1 in final numbers, particularly good news for ARROW, now at 1.2.  Their respective teammates, however, fell by the same amount, as both SUPER FUN NIGHT and THE TOMORROW PEOPLE slipped 0.1. WEDNESDAY CABLE:  Frank Darabont won’t be duplicating his THE WALKING DEAD success with MOB […]

  Happy New Year to all, as we dust off the last ratings of 2013: ABC:  NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN EVE, aka the Ryan Seacrest New Year’s Eve show, had no trouble disposing of NBC with a 3.7 that more than doubled the competition.  That was, however, down 0.5 from last year.  The late-night portion of […]

Wednesday fast national ratings: FOX: American Idol still gives its network an easy win on Wednesday night (the 4.0 adult 18-49 rating doubles second-place ABC’s primetime average).  But the singing competition show just keeps dropping, down 15% from last week’s premiere episode and 28% below the comparable episode last year. ABC and NBC rebounded a […]

NBC averaged a 6.6 18-49 rating from 8-11 pm last night, well ahead of the same night in Turin 2006 (5.6) and Vancouver 2010 (5.5).  Events last night included: Men’s Halfpipe, Pairs’ Short Program, and Women’s Ski Jumping. Through Tuesday, Sochi is averaging a 6.9 adult 18-49 rating for the Olympics to date, now comfortably ahead […]