MIKE & MOLLY had a subdued season premiere. 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 […]

  Ratings for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Saturday (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): SATURDAY CABLE was dominated by college football, which will be the case for most of the fall.  Note that Lifetime’s backdoor pilot DELIVERANCE CREEK had a 0.27 rating in 18-49s, with 926K total viewers.  That was down […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL ran again on both broadcast and cable, and ABC’s portion was at 1.68, down 0.18 from last week. CBS:  Reruns at 0.26/0.23/0.20. NBC:  A rerun of the ANNIE LIVE special was at 0.28. FOX:  A SECRETS OF CHRISTMAS REVEALED special was at 0.20. CW:  DYNASTY returned with 2 […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  A trio of the morning’s lows were narrowly dodged when SURVIVOR, AMERICAN IDOL and SUBURGATORY were adjusted up 0.1.  But the adjustments giveth and taketh away:  REVOLUTION and CSI both lost 0.1. WEDNESDAY CABLE:  TNT’s NBA PLAYOFF games were again on top at 2.0/1.3, while an NHL PLAYOFFS Game 7 on NBC […]

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 & […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The line-up aired new episodes for the first time in a month, with STATION 19 down 0.03 to 0.60, GREY’S ANATOMY up 0.02 to 0.65, and BIG SKY down 0.03 to 0.26. CBS:  After reruns at 0.36/0.26/0.27, HOW WE ROLL dropped 0.05 to 0.27, followed by a BULL rerun at 0.17. […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC’s NBA FINALS game adjusted up to 7.6 in final numbers, and correspondingly the lead-in JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE shrank to 1.4.  Elsewhere, the BONES season finale gained 0.1, as did all the CBS sitcom reruns. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Syfy’s WWE coverage took the cable night with 0.73, up 0.14 from last week.  That didn’t help the […]

  SCANDAL arrived as Week 2 shows continued to settle in. 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 […]