NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 7.0, up a full point from last week’s game.  DANCING WITH THE STARS JR, FAMILY GUY and NCIS: LA gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE ALEC BALDWIN SHOW and GOD FRIENDED ME lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program […]

Dallas isn’t a flash in the pan. TNT:  The 2d episode of DALLAS held up well from its premiere–surprisingly, even more so with younger audiences than with total viewers.  18-49 demo number fell from 1.5 to 1.3, a 15% drop that’s more than reasonable given the premiere’s hype and the network’s huge marketing campaign for […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The CMA AWARDS were at 1.12, steady with last year’s 1.1. CBS:  SURVIVOR slipped 0.02 to 0.95, TOUGH AS NAILS gained 0.02 to 0.39, and CSI: VEGAS was up 0.03 to 0.36. NBC:  The CHICAGO shows had a down night:  MED by a tick to 0.71, FIRE by 0.08 to 0.70, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  WWE SMACKDOWN, DATELINE and 20/20 all lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Fox Sports 1’s ALCS MLB PLAYOFFS game dominated Friday cable at 1.32.  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH was steady at 0.48.  A&E’s LIVE PD slipped 0.02 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The reruns of SNL and CMA COUNTRY CHRISTMAS lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     NOTE:  At this time, we have no Saturday cable ratings lower than the Top 150 in the charts below. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Once again, NFL […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  EMPIRE and THE MIDDLE gained 0.1 in final numbers, but NASHVILLE and the SVU rerun lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Note: Special (S) and Repeat (R) indicators for broadcast programs now added to this chart.     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Note:  WGN listed […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader led Friday cable at 0.73/0.71, and the TOP RANK BOXING lead-out was at 0.36.  A&E’s LIVE PD climbed 0.09 to 0.70, and the clip-show lead-in […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The ratings adjustment gods were kind to ABC, as DANCING WITH THE STARS climbed 0.1 to 1.7, AGENTS OF SHIELD gained 0.2 to a more presentable 2.1, and FOREVER went up 0.1 to 1.8–which gave it 2d place in the hour, over CBS’s PERSON OF INTEREST, because that show lost 0.1 in […]