NETWORK FINALS:  JANE THE VIRGIN and the reruns of PENN & TELLER: FOOL US and SWAT all lost 0.1 in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Paramount’s YELLOWSTONE again led Wednesday cable, down a tick to 0.46, with the debut of […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BLINDSPOT lost 0.1 in final numbers.  In addition, probably due to sports preemptions, the CW line-up was down across the board, by 0.2 at 8PM and by 0.1/0.1 at 8:30PM and 9PM.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s afternoon coverage […]

Thursday preliminary broadcast ratings:

  Black Friday indeed. 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 follow the chart. FOX:  […]

  BACHELOR IN PARADISE stayed steady with 2018. 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). Ratings analysis […]

>Many Sunday shows were down from recent weeks last night, with much of the decline attributable to the shift to Daylight Saving Time over the weekend (particularly in the early part of prime time).  However, the drop in Celebrity Apprentice (much later on the night) is hard to blame on the time change, and it […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  CBS’s SATURDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL increased to 3.9 in final numbers. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): As weird as it looks, NFL Network coded its Saturday afternoon NFL game for Nielsen purposes as “Thursday Night Football” (probably because that’s usually […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminaries in final numbers for Friday.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL bowl games were firmly in control of a truncated schedule of Friday cable with 3 games in the day’s Top 5: […]