>What an ugly night Tuesday has become.  Between the Daylight Saving Time effect early in the evening, a bumper crop of repeats, mid-season shows that are going nowhere, and a million other options (including streaming, DVR playback, local sports, and for the lucky audience in LA: freeway police chases on KCAL), no broadcast network last […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  The AMERICA’S GOT TALENT rerun, both the new and rerun MASTERS OF ILLUSION episodes and the PENN & TELLER: FOOL US rerun all fell 0.1 in final numbers, while the MASTERCHEF rerun went up the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS: […]

  THE WIZ LIVE granted most of NBC’s wishes. 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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  HAWAII 5-0 gained 0.1 in final numbers, but EMERALD CITY and 20/20 lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH ruled Friday cable, up two-tenths from last week to 1.12, and with a lead-out special at 0.56. […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  No good news in the final numbers for FOX, as NEW GIRL and BROOKLYN NINE-NINE stayed as is.  All changes were of the 0.1 variety:  up for NCIS, AGENTS OF SHIELD and THE ORIGINALS, down for NCIS LA, THE GOLDBERGS, TROPHY WIFE and SUPERNATURAL.  TUESDAY CABLE:  MTV’s TEEN MOM was again on […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.32/0.28/0.28/0.25, followed by the news special 24 MONTHS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD at 0.25. CBS:  SURVIVOR gained 0.06 to 0.90, BEYOND THE EDGE dropped 0.04 to 0.35, and GOOD SAM was up 0.02 to 0.24. NBC:  Reruns at 0.40/0.47/0.41. FOX:  THE MASKED SINGER rose 0.09 to 0.81, and DOMINO […]

  Just how much is Time Warner Cable’s blackout of CBS affecting the network’s ratings?  The answer is unclear for now–on Sunday, Big Brother was even with the prior week in final numbers, and while last night’s Under the Dome was down, it had an excuse.  Helping CBS:  its strength in smaller, non-TWC markets. CBS:  UNDER THE DOME slipped 0.3 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The primetime CBS NCAA TOURNAMENT games adjusted to 0.83/1.08.          Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The NCAA TOURNAMENT and related programming occupied the Top 21 slots on Saturday cable, with TBS games at 0.95/0.78/0.61/0.55, TNT at 0.59/0.51/0.31/0.30, and Tru at 0.55/0.51/0.33.  […]