NETWORK FINALS:  After football adjustment, RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER dropped 0.3, and both reruns of ALL RISE and BULL were down 0.2.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 4.39, up 0.92 from last week’s game.  USA’s WWE […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  The day was dominated, of course, by NBC’s WINTER OLYMPICS coverage which hit 1.79 in primetime, but that was again down more than 60% from the parallel night in 2018.  ABC’s NBA game was at 0.67.  FOX’s PBC FIGHT NIGHT was at 0.19.  CW’s GREAT CHOCOLATE SHOWDOWN dropped 0.04 to 0.05.   […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  DR. KEN looked even better after adjustment, up 0.1 to an impressive 1.5 even though lead-in LAST MAN STANDING stayed at 1.2.  HAWAII 5-0 also went up 0.1, as did DATELINE. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Disney Channel’s GIRL MEETS WORLD was again on top of Friday […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  SHARK TANK and DATELINE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while 20/20 lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH continued to dominate regular Friday cable programming, up 0.09 from last week to 1.07, with lead-out THE WHEEL up […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  After an afternoon NBA PLAYOFFS game at 1.78, AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS rose 0.07 to 0,48, AMERICAN IDOL jumped 0.13 to 0.64, and THE COMPANY YOU KEEP was up 0.03 to 0.23. CBS:  Without the MASTERS lead-in that it had last week, 60 MINUTES fell three-tenths to 0.55.  The rest of […]

  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 […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1, while the reruns of THE FLASH and NCIS lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA had two of the top three shows on Tuesday cable, with WWE SMACKDOWN down 0.07 to 0.91, […]

    NOTE TO READERS:  For the remainder of this week, text and responses to Comment requests will be delayed until the night after charts have been posted.   NETWORK FINALS:  Since there was no text for the morning prelims, a bit more detail on the final numbers. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME and the […]