NETWORK UPDATE:  THE AMAZING RACE gained 0.1 and 20/20 lost 0.1 in final Friday numbers. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): It’s not currently on the chart below, because of the way Adult Swim lists it, but the highest-rated cable original […]

  Some good news for ABC. 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 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 22 and Sunday November 23, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 12 Sunday 12.9 rating FOX 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly DET-NE ARI-SEA) 10.4 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As expected, adjustments were extreme due to the local preemptions for news coverage.  ABC’s LAST DANCE fell 0.2/0.3 in final numbers, CBS was down 0.2/0.2/0.2, NBC’s airing of DESPICABLE ME dropped 0.2 and the network added a news special at 0.2 in the 10PM hour, and FOX’s reruns were […]

>An interesting week on cable.  MTV’s Jersey Shore rocketed to a 4.3 18-49 rating in its season premiere, with a repeat of the same episode immediately following registering an impressive 1.8 rating.  A Friday program made our list this week (Disney Channel’s premiere of a Phineas & Ferb animated movie).  The 1.3 rating with young […]

  Our soothsaying group of former NBC head of Scheduling Mitch Metcalf, longtime head of NBC Current Programming Ted Frank and myself is continuing to set out instant, perhaps foolhardy predictions of what next fall’s primetime ratings will be.  Yesterday we covered Monday, and appropriately enough, it’s now time for a look at a Tuesday […]

>Last night, FOX won again with a slipping X Factor and the premiere of Bones.  FOX averaged a 3.5 Thursday night, up sharply from the 2.2 the network averaged the same night last year with Bones and Fringe.  CBS was in second place with a 3.3 rating, down a touch from a 3.4 last year.  […]

  Another little-watched summer Friday. 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 follows the chart. CBS:  After […]