Ratings for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Friday:

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 6 and Sunday September 7, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 1 Sunday 11.1 rating 1:00 pm CBS (CLE-PIT JAX-PHI OAK-NYJ CIN-BAL TEN-KC NE-MIA) (-1% […]

Sunday preliminary broadcast ratings (adult 18-49 ratings for last night, the same night last year and same night last week).  The NFL Sunday Night Football game on NBC is a preliminary 8.0 adult 18-49 rating but that should rise to about a 9.4 in the official nationals when the time zones are adjusted for the […]

Saturday preliminary broadcast ratings in prime, including two college football games (#7-Michigan State at #3-Oregon on FOX from 6:30-10:00 and Michigan at #16-Notre Dame on NBC from 7:30-11:00 pm ET). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL The chart above goes beyond the adult 18-49 rating, adding other key advertiser sales demographics (adult 18-34 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women […]

DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL The chart above goes beyond the adult 18-49 rating, adding other key advertiser sales demographics (adult 18-34 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares), and total viewership (ages 2 or more expressed in thousands of people).

  NETWORK UPDATE:  NFL FOOTBALL on NBC adjusted to a lower-than-expected 10.2, a hair under last year’s opening game.  Not that it matters much except in terms of percentages, but THE QUEST improved by 0.2 in final numbers to a still-terrible 0.5. Below are the ratings in key demos for Thursday’s Top 25 cable telecasts, […]

  The arrival of NFL Football swamped everything else on the night. NBC:  The opening game of NFL FOOTBALL, currently a 9.0 preliminary adult 18-49 rating from 8:30-11 pm, should go up to around a 10.6 official rating when the west coast viewing is processed properly, which would pass last year’s opening game.  The game […]

  Below are the ratings in key demos for Wednesday’s Top 25 original cable telecasts, along with a few lower-rated shows of interest.  If you’d like us to add any series to the latter list, please let us know.  Some context and analysis follow the chart. TEEN MOM (MTV) topped the night but lost a […]