>Well, AWAKE certainly has an open field competitively tonight.  The heavily-promoted premiere of the new NBC drama (averaging over 40 seconds of on-air promotion time per hour on NBC for weeks) faces a repeat The Mentalist on CBS (which follows a repeat Person of Interest) and a very soft entry on ABC, a repeat of […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday August 18-19, 2018.  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, August 19-20, […]

  Let’s not do the time warp again. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  WORLD OF DANCE lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE RATINGS:  USA’s WWE SMACKDOWN (which will move to FOX in October 2019) topped Tuesday cable, despite a 0.14 drop to 0.64, with CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST down to 0.39 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 7.0, down 1.4 from last week’s game.  Once the football adjustments were made at CBS, 60 MINUTES was up 0.4 to 3.6, MADAM SECRETARY was up 0.1 to 1.4, and CSI: CYBER, which didn’t begin airing on the east coast until 10:57PM, was at 1.0.  Broadcast Official […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  DANCING WITH THE STARS, THE VOICE and KEVIN CAN WAIT each gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The usual 3 networks were at the top of Monday cable.  On VH1, LOVE & HIP-HOP rose a tenth […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary morning ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Note that at this time, we have no Thursday cable ratings below the Top 150. TNT’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.62 (Houston vs. Oklahoma City)/0.38 (Boston […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The NCAA TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIP adjusted to 4.12, down from 5.3 in 2019.  (The rerun of THE NEIGHBORHOOD adjusted down to 0.48.)  In addition, AMERICA’S MOST WANTED adjusted up to the next tenth.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE telecast […]