BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE premiered at 0.65, down 0.28 from last season’s premiere (on a Monday).  THE ROOKIE: FEDS premiered at 0.34, 0.03 higher than Sunday’s premiere of its parent series. CBS:  FBI fell a tenth to 0.54, FBI: INTERNATIONAL dipped 0.02 to 0.48, and FBI; MOST ANTED was down 0.04 to […]

The Presidents Day holiday will cause delays for national television ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days.  As a rule of thumb, national holidays that close banks, stock markets or post offices also impact Nielsen ratings (MLK Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s). After this […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  STATION 19 dropped 0.07 to 0.54, GREY’S ANATOMY fell a tenth to 0.51, and BIG SKY was down 0.02 to 0.25. CBS:  The primetime hours of the NCAA TOURNAMENT were at 1.35/1.05/0.83.  That was higher than Night 1 of the 2021 Tournament, although that was a Friday. NBC:  LAW & ORDER […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’S Big 10 Championship  COLLEGE FOOTBALL game adjusted to 2.7, and ABC’s ACC Championship ended up at 1.6.  Both CBS’s reruns of NCIS: NEW ORLEANS and CRIMINAL MINDS fell 0.1 in final numbers.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  With […]

An early look at the partial-week program rankings for broadcast and cable.

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Due to the combination of holidays, football and specials, the English-language networks hadn’t aired their regular Sunday line-ups in several months, so we won’t be including weekly comparisons here. ABC:  After AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS at 0.43, the season premiere of AMERICAN IDOL was at 0.61, down 0.32 from the February 2022 […]

  FRIDAY STARZ:  DA VINCI’S DEMONS stayed at an 0.2 rating in the 18-49 demo, and had a very slight increase among older viewers to give it 420K.  With such a serialized storyline, it seems unlikely to move much higher for the remainder of the season. SATURDAY BBCAMERICA:  It’s a shame that ORPHAN BLACK is […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Adjustments were friendly to ABC, where THE GOLDBERGS, SPEECHLESS and MODERN FAMILY all gained 0.1. CRIMINAL MINDS, SHOTS FIRED and SVU also went up 0.1 in final numbers, while CRIMINAL MINDS: BEYOND BORDERS and the reruns of ARROW and WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY lost the same.     […]