ABC turned in a 1.8 rating with adults 18-49 last night, down from the 2.0 last week but still #1 for the night.  Last Man Standing and Malibu Country each posted a 1.6 rating in their second week (down four-tenths of a rating point for Last Man and down a hefty seven tenths for Malibu).  The comedies fell to second place […]

  Happy New Year to all, as we dust off the last ratings of 2013: ABC:  NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN EVE, aka the Ryan Seacrest New Year’s Eve show, had no trouble disposing of NBC with a 3.7 that more than doubled the competition.  That was, however, down 0.5 from last year.  The late-night portion of […]

  Steadiness can be good news these days. 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 […]

  THE CARMICHAEL SHOW had an OK debut. 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 […]

  A good night for ABC. 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 and comparisons […]

  Now that NFL football has returned to Sundays, the weekly ratings for NBC, FOX and CBS will be subject to more than the usual amount of adjustments, and we won’t know exactly where those networks stand until final ratings are released on Tuesday morning. NBC:  Preliminary numbers for NFL SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL have the […]

NBC will win another Sunday in the fall, although it will be one of the lower-rated Sunday Night Football nights of the season.  The 5.3 rating with Adults 18-49 in the fast nationals from 7:30-11 pm last night should go up to a 6.0 rating for the night when the Pacific and Mountain time zone […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  LIVE IN FRONT OF A STUDIO AUDIENCE led the night at 0.96, although that was down from 1.2 for the previous installment in December 2019.  ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (which will return in January) premiered at 0.63.  QUEENS returned from a week off, up 0.08 to 0.34. CBS:  The line-up aired new episodes […]