NBC of course won last night handily with the first NFL game of the season.  Usually scheduled on the Thursday after Labor Day, the NFL moved the game to Wednesday out of deference to President Obama who gives his acceptance speech in Charlotte tomorrow night.  Last night’s game (Dallas upsetting the Super Bowl champion New […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted up by 2.2 to 7.5 in final numbers, tying last year’s final rating.  In addition, JEFF DUNHAM: UNHINGED IN HOLLYWOOD gained 0.1, and the ARROW rerun fell by the same amount. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The NFL Network part of THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL was at 1.83, up two-tenths from the […]

This airing against no competition thing is fun! CBS:  On Thursday it was the Eye’s turn to be the only network with original regular programming, and as with NBC the night before, it provided some lovely numbers.  THE BIG BANG THEORY kicked things off with a massive 6 rating (up 0.6 from the show’s last […]

THE WEEK.  For the recently completed week ending Sunday (February 4-10, 2013), CBS won again with a preliminary 3.35 adult 18-49 rating for the week.  This week’s win is driven by last night’s Grammy Awards (preliminary 10.3 demo rating, a stunning drop from last year’s 14.1 Grammy Awards).  In fact, last year CBS won Grammy week with […]

  The ratings for the night’s dueling TOWN HALLS didn’t necessarily go as expected.  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 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  BACHELOR IN PARADISE gained 0.1 in final numbers, while THE GONG SHOW and MIDNIGHT, TEXAS lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  USA’s WWE coverage notched a Monday cable win at 1.21/1.15/1.05, compared to last week’s 1.06/1.05/1.03.  On […]

Note: ABC and FOX 8-11 pm numbers below are slightly understated because live viewing on the west coast from 5-8 pm PT is not included. NBC 8:30-10:00 pm numbers below are slightly overstated because they contain live viewing of the original SNL from 8:30-10:00 pm PT. Accurate Saturday program ratings will be available Tuesday morning. […]

  NOTE:  It was another night of NFL preseason pre-emptions, so don’t get too excited about the seeming boosts for BOSTON EMS and HANNIBAL.  We’ll take a closer look at the Saturday numbers in our network update report on Tuesday. A few specials dot tonight’s network line-up, with the TEEN CHOICE AWARDS on FOX, and […]