Blowouts aren’t great for sports ratings. 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 […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  The RED NOSE DAY special dropped 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Bravo’s REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NYC topped Thursday cable, down 0.08 to 0.37, with TOP CHEF down 0.02 to 0.27.  Cable news was led by Fox News’s TUCKER […]

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). Note: The fast affiliate-based ratings below measure what aired on […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.6, down 1.2 from last week’s game. In addition, LIFE IN PIECES gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE  HIGHLIGHTS:  NFL Network’s slice of THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was down 0.28 from last week to […]

The Thanksgiving holiday weekend will cause delays for daily national ratings (live+same day cable and broadcast) for several days.  This is how the ratings should roll out the next week or so. (All times Pacific.) Wednesday November 25 nationals available Monday November 30 by 2 pm Thursday November 26 nationals available Tuesday December 1 by 8 am Friday November 27 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE BACHELORETTE, COSMOS and NEXT all gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  History’s CURSE OF OAK ISLAND lost 0.05 to 0.54, with the lead-out hour down 0.04 to 0.24.  Discovery’s MOONSHINERS climbed 0.09 to 0.35.  TNT’s […]

  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 […]

  With one notable exception, midseason continued to look fairly positive for the networks. 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 […]