AFTERNOON UPDATE:  An assortment of small adjustments.  On ABC, the MARVEL: ASSEMBLING THE UNIVERSE special and THE GOLDBERGS both gained 0.1, while on NBC, THE VOICE (which usually runs until 9:01PM) was up 0.1 while ABOUT A BOY lost the corresponding 0.1.  Both PERSON OF INTEREST and SUPERNATURAL ticked up 0.1. TUESDAY CABLE:  THE […]

Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings:

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday May 3 and Sunday May 4, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.   Triple Crown: Kentucky Derby Saturday 4.0 rating NBC 4:30-5:00 pm (-2% from 4.1 last year; […]

  UTOPIA:  Tuesday 8PM and Friday 9PM on FOX THE FACTS:  Based on a Dutch format and produced by unscripted specialist John de Mol, UTOPIA is a reality show that puts 15 people into an isolated area for an entire year and forces them to make up their own rules for their new “civilization.”  Viewers […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  Time-zone adjusted numbers for Game 1 of THE NBA FINALS increased to 6.0, 0.3 above last year’s Game 1.  However, those same adjustments reduced the primetime JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE by a full point to 1.1, and the NBA COUNTDOWN pre-game show by 0.8 to 2.0.  In addition, HELL’S KITCHEN went up 0.1 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  No changes at all. TUESDAY CABLE:  Despite weeks of hype, TYRANT didn’t have much of a launch for FX with 0.6 (subsequent re-airings added 0.3 and 0.15)–and given its quality issues and lack of critical support, its arrow may not be pointing up.  USA’s plight continues, with the season premiere of COVERT […]

  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 […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 18-19, 2017.  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, November 19-20, […]