> An atypical night gave the win to ABC, but CBS may have the key to Fridays for the rest of the season. CBS: UNDERCOVER BOSS ran away with 8PM, ahead of the nearest competition by almost a full ratings point. A GIFTED MAN, running the rest of its episodes at 9PM, did better than […]

It was another big night for the NBA and in this case ESPN as the scene shifted back to the Eastern Conference Finals.  A mammoth 4.8 rating with Adults 18-49 (and 11.1 million viewers 2+) watched LeBron James carry the Miami Heat on his back to tie the series 3-3, forcing a Game 7 Saturday […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

ABC had its last night of basketball-fueled domination Thursday, with Miami winning at home and ending the series at five games.  Nothing on the other networks had a chance of working. ABC carried ESPN’s coverage of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, earning a preliminary 6.5 Adult 18-49 rating for the game at 9 pm ET. […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Note that the WE DAY special must have run without commercials, and thus it wasn’t included in Nielsen’s final ratings.  As expected, there were a slew of adjustments for the night, mostly attributable to NFL PRESEASON games.  The following shows dropped 0.2 from their preliminary ratings:  the reruns of […]

NBC does the other networks a favor. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT didn’t air last night in favor of a FEAR FACTOR special, which shot a hole in the network’s ratings for the night.  Fear only managed a 1.3, and that pulled AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR down to 1.4, off half a ratings point from its last […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday August 19 through Sunday August 25, 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 […]

Note: Local broadcast coverage of the ESPN NFL Monday Night Football doubleheader impacted the fast-affiliate nationals below. ABC numbers are inflated slightly by local pre-emptions in Houston for the early game and San Francisco-Oakland for the late game. NBC numbers inflated slightly by a pre-emption in New Orleans for the early game. In Denver, the […]