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 […]

The week’s good times stop rolling for the networks.  (Note, comparisons are to 2 weeks ago, as shows were either preempted on Thanksgiving night or had atypical numbers.) ABC:  LAST RESORT, now just playing out its string, hit a new low 1.0.  The night didn’t get better at 9PM, where GREY’S ANATOMY tied its season […]

You can’t go wrong with football. FOX:  Most of the major college bowl games have migrated to ESPN, but the COTTON BOWL remains on broadcast (for now), and gave FOX an easy win for the night, with a preliminary 3.1 rating in 18-49s that’s solidly higher than last year’s 2.5 for the game. ABC:  All […]

NBC looks to its past–and faces its present. NBC:  30 ROCK had a nice send-off, a 1.9 that was up half a point from last week as old fans gathered to watch the gang one last time.  But “catastrophic” doesn’t do justice to the debut of DO NO HARM, which at 0.9 is reportedly the […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Thursday May 13, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

ABC enjoys the onset of March. ABC:  The Alphabet Network won every timeslot last night, with both LAST MAN STANDING and MALIBU COUNTRY up a robust 0.3 (to 1.6 and 1.4, respectively), even though the only rerun they faced was on CBS.  SHARK TANK was the highest-rated show of the night with 1.9, and 20/20 […]

      Analysis to follow.       Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   Top 50 Original Cable Telecasts with Demographic Detail Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts To search for a show: type Ctrl-F and type your show title in the search box. Top 150 Original Cable Telecasts: Saturday May 15, 2021 P18-49 P2+ Rank […]

NOTE: ABC, CBS and NBC ratings below inflated by local prime time pre-emptions for NFL Monday Night Football (nationally on ESPN): ABC (in Los Angeles), CBS (in Minneapolis) and NBC (in New Orleans). 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), […]