NBC won Saturday night with a 1.5 preliminary Adults 18-49 rating (subject to upward revision due to the live broadcast feed to the west coast). Coverage of the third round of the U.S. Open golf championship from Olympic Club in San Francisco earned a 1.5 preliminary rating from 8-10 pm and a 1.6 rating from […]
CW had previously announced that virtually its entire line-up would premiere in October (allowing its mostly serialized shows to air with fewer of the hiatuses and repeats that have tended to disrupt the network’s schedule), and now it’s put specific dates to the debuts: Friday August 24: 8PM: AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL Tuesday October […]
Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 12 through Sunday August 18, 2019. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the same […]
A low-key Labor Day. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]
Updated Olympic nightly ratings track and Olympics averages through Thursday, Aug 2.
The week heading into Labor Day is usually forgettable. Television viewing is always very light the Thursday-Sunday before the holiday, and this past week the broadcast networks suffered through low ratings for the Republican National Convention (NBC ranged between a 0.9 and a 1.1 rating with Adults 18-49 at 10 pm Tuesday-Thursday, while ABC averaged […]
So much for the monkey. NBC: ANIMAL PRACTICE lurched into the regular season with an awful 1.4 start, the lowest rated show in primetime (other than on CW) last night. GUYS WITH KIDS did marginally better at 1.6, but that was still deeply in 4th place for its timeslot. (Incidentally, in other NBC bad sitcom […]
Major League Baseball’s revised postseason format can’t be blamed for taking viewers away from the broadcast networks. On Monday night, October 8, while The Voice posted a 4.8 rating with Adults 18-49, 2 Broke Girls managed a 3.4, and ESPN’s Monday Night Football of course hit a 5.7 rating in prime time, the main baseball playoff game of the day […]