Ratings for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Saturday (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): SATURDAY CABLE was dominated by college football, which will be the case for most of the fall. Note that Lifetime’s backdoor pilot DELIVERANCE CREEK had a 0.27 rating in 18-49s, with 926K total viewers. That was down […]
NETWORK UPDATE: SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up 0.9 to 8.5. On CBS, where the schedule slid 50 minutes due to afternoon football overrun, BIG BROTHER gained 0.3 to 2.5. The MISS AMERICA PAGEANT grew 0.2 to 1.7, and the COUNTDOWN special that preceded it was up 0.1 to 0.7. THE STRAIN (FX) topped SUNDAY CABLE, […]
NETWORK UPDATE: There was no good news for UTOPIA in final numbers, although 2 other 8PM shows (48 HOURS and MASTERS OF ILLUSION) went up 0.1 each. DATELINE lost 0.1. FRIDAY CABLE: Technical issues kept it off the Top 25 chart below, but Syfy’s premiere of Z NATION was actually the #2 cable original of […]
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 13 and Sunday September 14, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 2 Sunday 12.3 rating 1 or 4 pm FOX Single (1pm: DAL-TEN ARI-NYG NO-CLE […]
Now that NFL football has returned to Sundays, the weekly ratings for NBC, FOX and CBS will be subject to more than the usual amount of adjustments, and we won’t know exactly where those networks stand until final ratings are released on Tuesday morning. NBC: Preliminary numbers for NFL SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL have the […]
Preliminary broadcast ratings for Saturday.
FOX: UTOPIA fell again, down 0.2 from its Tuesday rating to 0.7, and only managing to tie a rerun on NBC for 2d place in its hour. Once regular season competition arrives in 10 days, it seems unlikely that FOX will be able to devote 2 primetime hours to such a low-rated series every […]
Ratings for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Thursday (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): NETWORK UPDATE: CBS coverage of Thursday Night Football jumped to a 7.5 adult 18-49 rating and 20,771,000 total viewers (any age). The 7.5 demo rating is up an enormous 36% jump from the fast national rating this morning. (Usually NFL […]