A lump of coal in THE GRINCH’s stocking. 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 […]

  The hills were not alive last night. NBC:  The night before Thanksgiving is traditionally an extremely slow one for TV viewing, and networks don’t typically air hour-long infomercials for their own upcoming programming, so it’s certainly premature for NBC to panic about the 1.0 for last night’s THE MAKING OF “THE SOUND OF MUSIC […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  DATELINE lost 0.1 in final numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  NBC Sports Net took the night with 0.99 for Game 3 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS.  (We don’t normally report on the theatrical movies that networks list as “originals,” but it’s […]

  MAYA & MARTY was helped by a strong lead-in. 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 […]

  The TEEN CHOICE AWARDS weren’t much of a choice on a generally down night. 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 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  Aside from sports, Christmas Night was a festival of reruns. ABC:  The broadcaster aired 3 of the holiday’s 5 games at 1.49/1.07/0.52. NBC:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 4.20, up 0.27 from last week’s game.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN aired all of the NBA quintuple-header […]

  An up-and-down night for ABC’s game shows.  NOTE: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on network affiliates in 210 U.S. markets from 8-11 pm Eastern & Pacific or 7-10 pm Central & Mountain. The numbers are some combination of the network schedule and any pre-emptions (such as local news or weather coverage). […]

  For the moment, BIG BROTHER is ahead of preseason football. 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 […]