Through the first two days of the current week, Shark Week continues to give Discovery a solid presence in the program rankings (although the network has declined each night from a 2.2 rating on Sunday to around a 1.7 Monday to a 1.3 on Tuesday).  Tonight Shark Week continues with Top 10 Sharkdown and Great White Serial Killer, […]

  A quiet night on the networks. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT was easily the highest rated show of the night, but its 2.2 was its lowest rated Tuesday airing ever, down 0.2 from last week and 0.3 from the parallel night last year. FOX:  SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE slipped 0.1 to 1.2. ABC:  […]

Wednesday ratings last night and last week, with a comparision to Thursday the same week last year (because the similar Wednesday last year had the NFL kick-off game, which was displaced by coverage of President Obama’s acceptance speech for his second Democratic nomination).  Tomorrow we will compared tonight’s NFL premiere game with the unusual Wednesday […]

  For one last glorious night, Walter White truly was The One Who Knocks. AMC:  Ratings for the finale of BREAKING BAD smashed through even the huge expectations.  The show was watched by 10.3M people in its 9PM airing.  That was almost 40% higher than last week–which was itself a series record.  It was the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbres, while the post-Town Hall rerun of THE CONNERS lost the same.  TRANSPLANT held onto the 0.1 bump it had this morning.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS games were again at […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  As expected, adjusted numbers leveled much of the day’s playing field.  HART OF DIXIE and BEAUTY & THE BEAST reverted to last week’s 0.4/0.3 ratings, while at CBS, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER ended up down 0.1 from last week at 3.0, and 2 BROKE GIRLS dropped 0.1 to 2.5.  MOM was […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & BROADCAST NATIONALS […]

  TUESDAY UPDATE:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to a 7.8 rating, a bit lower than we’d estimated.  On CBS, once the football overrun was adjusted out, 60 MINUTES had a 3.1, considerably below our estimate, but the rest of the night was closer to the mark, with THE AMAZING RACE at 2.2, THE GOOD WIFE […]