NETWORK UPDATE: MISTRESSES and the rerun THE BIG BANG THEORY both went up 0.1 from this morning’s numbers. MONDAY CABLE: ESPN’s coverage of the All-Star HOME RUN DERBY took the night at 2.1–even the rain delay scored 1.4. The top-rated regular programming, as usual on Mondays, was VH1’s LOVE & HIP-HOP ATLANTA, down 0.1 […]
NETWORK UPDATE: RISING STAR and WIPEOUT swapped 0.1s, with RISING STAR on the low end–in fact, it was ABC’s lowest-rated original show of the night. On CBS, BIG BROTHER went up even higher to 2.2, but RECKLESS was pathetic, down another 0.1 to 0.5. SUNDAY CABLE: THE STRAIN, FX’s first entry into the world […]
Monday preliminary broadcast ratings. In addition to the traditional adult 18-49 ratings grids below (for last night, the same night last year and same night a week ag0), today we are introducing a new chart with even more ratings detail for each program last night, including other important demographic segments and total viewers. NEW SECTION […]
Updated: The ABC ratings for daytime last Sunday are finally in and the 224-minute telecast of the FIFA World Cup Final (from 2:00-5:44 pm ET) averaged over 14 million viewers, making it the #1 match of 2014 on English-language television, slightly ahead of three USA matches (#2 USA vs Portugal on June 22 with 13,774,000 total […]
Sunday preliminary broadcast ratings:
The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 12 and Sunday July 13, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Soccer: FIFA World Cup: The Finals Saturday 3.4 rating ESPN 3:30-6:00 pm Brazil vs Netherlands […]
NBC: The network’s numbers were up, but still nothing to boast about. (And are shaky to boot, thanks to a baseball preemption in San Francisco.) DATELINE climbed 0.2 to 1.2, and CROSSBONES is currently up 0.2 to a still-dreadful 0.6. ABC: ABC was the only network to air non-fireworks original programming on July 4th, […]
NETWORK UPDATE: There was no change for the NBC sitcoms. BIG BROTHER, however, climbed 0.1 to an even higher 2.1. GANG RELATED slipped 0.1 to 0.7, and the CW reruns were both down 0.1. THURSDAY CABLE: The cable night was all about Pawn and History Channel, as the 2 half-hours of PAWN STARS were […]