>If you haven’t heard that NBC’s biggest hope for its lost season, Smash, premieres the Monday after the Super Bowl, you don’t watch television or listen to the radio or look at billboards or go online or read magazines.  The marketing for this show has been relentless.  The network is counting on an enormous Super […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE premiered at 0.65, down 0.28 from last season’s premiere (on a Monday).  THE ROOKIE: FEDS premiered at 0.34, 0.03 higher than Sunday’s premiere of its parent series. CBS:  FBI fell a tenth to 0.54, FBI: INTERNATIONAL dipped 0.02 to 0.48, and FBI; MOST ANTED was down 0.04 to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE MASKED SINGER finale, the preceding clip-show hour and THE GREAT CHRISTMAS LIGHT FIGHT gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  MTV’s THE CHALLENGE  dropped 0.06 to 0.45.  On Bravo, REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ORANGE COUNTY was steady […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday August 18-19, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, August 19-20, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Only HELL’S KITCHEN and the night’s rerun of MODERN FAMILY found an extra 0.1 in the couch cushions.  THURSDAY CABLE:  With no NBA Playoff games scheduled, it was a quiet night.  The NHL PLAYOFFS on NBC Sports Network were at 0.6.  PAWN STARS (History) was at 0.9/0.9, up 0.1 in the 2d […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE CONNERS dipped 0.05 to 0.46, THE GOLDBERGS was steady at 0.36, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY edged up 0.02 to 0.48, and HOME ECONOMICS was up 0.02 to 0.32.  BIG SKY gained 0.05 to 0.24. CBS:  SURVIVOR rose 0.14 to 0.80, but the premiere of THE REAL LOVE BOAT didn’t do much to […]

  The networks began their holiday. 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 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  Both MONDAY  NIGHT FOOTBALL cities showed the game on ABC stations, which is why the network’s numbers plunged after adjustment:  HAPPY NEW YEAR, CHARLIE BROWN down 0.4, RUDOLPH’S SHINY NEW YEAR down 0.6, and THE GREAT AMERICAN BAKING SHOW down 0.6.  Elsewhere, the KEVIN CAN WAIT rerun lost 0.1 but […]