>CBS aired the low-rated first round of the NCAA basketball tournament, falling to a fourth-place 1.7 rating with Adults 18-49 (the same as last year’s result).  ABC received some decent news with Missing premiering to a 2.0 rating at 8 pm.  Not a huge number but better than the mid-1 rating they have seen for […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  FOX’s coverage of the PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME adjusted to 0.9.  Elsewhere, MACGYVER and DATELINE gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH franchise was again at the top of Friday cable, at 0.46/0.38/0.26 compared to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from this morning’s preliminary numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s CURSE OF OAK ISLAND led Tuesday cable, up 0.08 from last week to 0.85, with lead-out TIME MACHINE at 0.43.  On USA, WWE SMACKDOWN gained […]

Note: The numbers for NFL SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on NBC and MLB NLCS Game 7 on FOX will rise +15% to +20% on the official nationals tomorrow when live viewing is counted from 5-8PM on the West Coast, where three of the four teams involved are based. The numbers of ABC, CBS and CW, in […]

>The metered-market overnights, the first ratings available each day, show that NBC’s Awake finished in second place in the 10 pm hour to the repeat episode of The Mentalist on CBS.  Remember that the overnights reflect viewing in 56 of the largest television markets only (about half of the country), and the ratings and shares […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The NBA FINALS climbed to 6.0 in time-zone adjusted ratings, the same as Sunday’s game (but down 0.7 from the adjusted rating for Game 4 in 2013), while the primetime JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE and NBA COUNTDOWN fell to 1.0/1.7.  In addition, the 9PM UNDATEABLE slipped 0.1, making that hour a steady pair […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY and YOUNG SHELDON gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was at 1.43, while NBC Sports Net’s NHL PLAYOFFS games were at 0.67/0.46.  A&E’s LIVE PD specials were at […]

  NBC:  The network’s numbers were up, but still nothing to boast about.  (And are shaky to boot, thanks to a baseball preemption in San Francisco.)  DATELINE climbed 0.2 to 1.2, and CROSSBONES is currently up 0.2 to a still-dreadful 0.6. ABC:  ABC was the only network to air non-fireworks original programming on July 4th, […]