Note that the Wednesday cable chart has been revised from the version posted this morning, which as many of you noted (for the most part courteously) was in error. BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Returning from a rerun week, THE CONNERS gained 0.05 to 0.61, THE GOLDBERGS ticked down to 0.38, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY edged up 0.02 […]

  AMC executives may have felt like they’d been doing some meth themselves this morning–in a good way.  Five and a half seasons into its run, BREAKING BAD returned for its final 8 episodes with a vengeance, exploding to a total viewership of 5.9M.  That’s not just the highest rating by far in the show’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  NCIS and BULL each gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT’s Golden State vs. Oklahoma City NBA game topped Tuesday cable at 1.04, with the early Washington vs. Philadelphia game at 0.46.  On History, CURSE OF […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  NBC’s Thanksgiving night THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up to 9.0.  There were also football-related adjustments at CBS, which had aired the late afternoon game:  the rerun BIG BANG THEORY lost 0.2 to 3.2, and LIFE IN PIECES dropped 0.1 to 2.1, but MOM gained 0.1 to 1.7. In addition, the MUPPETS […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  HOLLYWOOD GAME NIGHT and IZOMBIE both lost 0.1 in final numbers. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  FX’s PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON remained very strong, down 0.16 from last week to easily top Tuesday cable at 1.35.  HGTV’s FIXER UPPER lightened by 0.05 to 0.92, and […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The 8PM SHARK TANK  rerun gained 0.1 in final numbers, while the ELEMENTARY rerun lost the same. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports occupied half the slots in Friday’s cable Top 10.  COLLEGE FOOTBALL took the lead with ESPN’s double feature of games at 0.77/0.64.  An episode of SPORTSCENTER occupied #6 at 0.39, a Univision […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 12 through Sunday September 13, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the comparable weekend last year. NFL: Week 1 […]

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). COMPARISONS TO SIMILAR NIGHTS: Preliminary adult 18-49 ratings versus the same night […]