BROADCAST FINALS:  FOX’s NFL game (shared with NFLNetwork, whose ratings are below) owned Christmas Day at 7.74.  That compared to 3.15 for last year’s broadcast game.  FOX aired PBC BOXING in primetime at 0.66.  ABC’s tripleheader of NBA games was at 1.52/1.64/1.57 compared to 1.82 for last year’s broadcast game.  The other networks aired […]

Last night’s CMA Awards were a huge hit for ABC, but because the last two Wednesdays featured World Series games, the other networks (except for FOX, of course) were already down–the better comparison is to three weeks ago. ABC:  Moving from Thursday to Wednesday was the charm for THE CMA AWARDS, which zoomed 24% from […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  JUDGE STEVE HARVEY fell a tenth to 0.54.  ABBOTT ELEMENTARY was steady at 0.54, and BLACK-ISH gained 0.02 to 0.42.  The night ended with a rerun JUDGE STEVE HARVEY at 0.26. CBS:  Reruns at 0.55/0.45/0.44. NBC:  AMERICAN AUTO held at 0.38, GRAND CREW slipped 0.02 to 0.31, THIS IS US lost […]

  Embattled ABC fared the best on a slow night. ABC:  LAST MAN STANDING was down 0.2 from last week to 1.2, but things improved after that, as THE NEIGHBORS held at 0.9, SHARK TANK was easily the highest rated show of the night on any network, steady at 2.0, and 20/20 rose 0.3 to […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA game was at 0.61.  FOX’s MLS match was at 0.13.  CW’s originals were at 0.05/0.04.  NBC’s SNL returned from its Olympics break at 0.86.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  ESPN’s COLLEGE BASKETBALL was at 0.45/0.41/0.35/0.33/0.29/0.21.  As the war in Ukraine continued to dominate, cable news […]

  FOX:  Any hope that ENLISTED could find itself some helpful word-of-mouth faded as its 2d episode fell 0.1 from the premiere to 0.6.  It was again 0.1 below RAISING HOPE, itself down 0.1 to 0.7.  Neither could complain about its 8PM lead-in, since BONES was relatively robust at a steady 1.5. NBC:  DATELINE was even […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  A low night, as STATION 19 dropped 0.05 to 0.56, GREY’S ANATOMY fell 0.09 to 0.55, and BIG SKY was down 0.07 to 0.26. CBS:  The line-up returned from a 2-week NCAA break, with YOUNG SHELDON down 0.04 to 0.58, UNITED STATES OF AL down 0.04 to 0.44, and GHOSTS (which […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  NBC wasn’t able to exclude the 8PM half-hour of its WINTER OLYMPICS coverage, and consequently its rating stayed at 5.0, just barely above the 2d-lowest night of Turin  And without getting too far into spoiler territory, tonight’s ratings may end up being disappointing as well.  CRIMINAL MINDS gained back 0.1 of its […]