THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (January 28-February 3, 2013), CBS of course dominated with the Super Bowl, achieving a preliminary 9.04 adult 18-49 rating for the week.  This assumes about a 40.6 rating during prime time on Sunday (estimated from the 35.3 non-time-zone-adjusted fast national rating).  Last year, NBC scored a 7.66 rating […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  THE VOICE gained 0.1 in final numbers, but CHICAGO FIRE lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  FX’s THE PEOPLE V. OJ SIMPSON closed strongly, up 0.23 for a 1.34 finale. That more than doubled the night’s next-highest original, Discovery’s […]

  Football helped all FOX’s shows… except one. 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 […]

CBS dominates, without a singing competition to be seen. CBS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY, 2 1/2 MEN and PERSON OF INTEREST all had their best outings of the season.  Big Bang was particularly impressive, up 0.4 to a huge 5.5 that almost equaled the 4 other networks combined.  Men was up just a tick to […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only changes involved reruns:  0.1 increases for ARROW, MODERN FAMILY and THE GOLDBERGS at 9:30PM.  We didn’t mention it this morning, but it’s also worth noting that ABC’s MOTIVE, its only original show of the night, was also its lowest-rated. WEDNESDAY CABLE:  ESPN’s coverage of the Miami/Indiana NBA PLAYOFFS game easily […]

        NOTE TO READERS:  For the remainder of this week, text and responses to Comment requests will be delayed, likely to the night after the Top 150 charts have been posted.   NETWORK FINALS:  Since there was no text this morning, a bit more detail on the network ratings: NBC:  All ratings […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  BLUE BLOODS and THE EXORCIST lost 0.1 in final numbers, pushing the latter to a pitiful 0.3.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s USC vs. Stanford COLLEGE FOOTBALL game topped Friday cable at 0.99.  On Discovery, GOLD RUSH gained 0.03 to […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.2 in final numbers, but the increase didn’t extend to anything else on the CBS schedule.  In addition, GREY’S ANATOMY bumped up 0.1. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Spike’s LIP SYNC BATTLE got […]