NETWORK FINALS:  ABC’s (amazing) Golden State vs. Oklahoma City NBA game gained half a point in final numbers.  Somewhat less excitingly, the NCIS: NEW ORLEANS rerun on CBS rose 0.1.        Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO insists on listing its licensed theatrical movies […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  Reruns at 0.36/0.26/0.25. CBS:  Reruns at 0.28/0.21/0.22. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.03 to 0.66, and HOT WHEELS was up 0.05 to 0.31. FOX:  BEAT SHAZAM rose 0.06 to 0.23, and DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS ticked up to 0.23. CW:  Back from a rerun week, SUPERMAN & LOIS ticked up to […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  DANCING WITH THE STARS hung on better than expected in adjusted network numbers, retaining all of this morning’s 2.4 (still a season premiere low).  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR gained 0.1. Ratings for Monday’s Top 25 original cable telecasts (now with all three individual hours of wrestling on USA and a few additional programs added): ESPN’s […]

Tuesday ratings last night, last year and last week.  President Obama’s address on Syria interrupted network schedules to varying degrees at 9 pm ET last night, with NBC sliding America’s Got Talent a little over 15 minutes, while CBS was closer to a half-hour slide of the 9 and 10 pm repeat dramas.  ABC devoted […]

Welcome to the first edition of ShowbuzzDaily’s SKEDBALL, a weekly look at the weekend afternoon sports daypart on television.  This past Saturday was filled with college football games, as is typical in the fall, and one game truly broke out of the pack: Texas A&M’s stunning upset of formerly #1 Alabama.  CBS Sports’ coverage of […]

LAST NIGHT.  Christmas came again to NBC in the form of last night’s Sunday Night Football game, the final regular season game of the year but which actually was an extra playoff game.  Washington defeated Dallas in a game that awarded the NFC East title and more importantly the final playoff spot.  The game received a 9.2 […]

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). PREVIOUS SATURDAY NETWORK SCORECARDS (FAST NATIONALS) PREVIOUS SATURDAY CABLE & […]

  BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s NBA PLAYOFFS game was at 2.54.  NBC’s USFL game was at 0.37.  FOX’s MLB game was at 0.37.  On CW, MASTERS OF ILLUSION ticked down to 0.03, and TOTALLY WEIRD & FUNNY was also down a tick to 0.03.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart   CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On ESPN, […]