FOX ruled summer Wednesday yet again last night with a 2.4 preliminary Adults 18-49 rating for So You Think You Can Dance from 8-10 pm (down from a 2.7 last week and a 2.8 on the same night last year). It wasn’t like there was any competition on the other networks.  CBS finished a very weak second with a 1.1 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Things got even worse for ABC’s SOMEWHERE BETWEEN in final numbers, as it fell 0.1 to a flat-out awful 0.5 premiere.  The rerun of LIFE IN PIECES also lost 0.1.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  VH1 stayed on top […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers to 1.6, and the AMERICA’S GOT TALENT rerun as well as both MASTERS OF ILLUSION reruns lost the same.     Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart       CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE topped Friday cable, down 0.08 to […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SURVIVOR gained 0.1 in final numbers, and as expected, the CW reruns both lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Comedy Central’s SOUTH PARK led Wednesday cable, up 0.07 to 0.76, with BROAD CITY up 0.07 to 0.40, which […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  The season premiere of THE GOLDBERGS was at 0.70, down a tenth from last fall’s premiere.  THE WONDER YEARS premiered very compatibly at 0.67.  The live season premiere of THE CONNERS was at 0.65, down from 0.9 for last year’s live premiere.  The season premiere of HOME ECONOMICS was at 0.41, […]

>Week to week increases were evident last night!  In a break from a seemingly endless four-network death spiral, NBC Tuesday showed some impressive signs last night, with all three reality shows up from last week and the network matching the year ago nightly rating.  In this environment, flat is up for any network.  Glee returned […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The rerun of HAWAII 5-0 gained 0.1 and the reruns of MACGYVER and RIVERDALE lost the same in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD stayed at the top of Friday cable, despite a 0.08 drop to […]

  A steady (and low) night. 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 follows the […]