And so it begins.  As the competition turns away from the pool and the gymnastics arena to the track & field stadium, the nightly ratings begin to drift down.  Last night looks like an 8.1 rating with Adults 18-49 in the fast nationals for NBC prime time — still an enormous number for a Friday […]

NBC had a terrific first night of The Voice and Revolution combo.  In its second Monday this season, The Voice perked up to a 4.6 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8-10 pm, up from a 4.2 last Monday.  There seemed to be a lot of radio advertising over the weekend and all day yesterday driving tune in to this night, and […]

World Series Game 1 won the night, but didn’t seem to affect anyone else very much. ABC:  After a slightly increased 2.6 (in final numbers) steady 2.5 from its THE MIDDLE lead-in, THE NEIGHBORS was up a tick to 2.0, still nothing to be thrilled about (3rd place in the half-hour), but appreciably ahead of […]

Not a tuneful evening. ABC:  The AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS collapsed to a 3.4, the highest non-football of the night and somewhat higher than what ABC has been doing on Sundays, but down 0.9 from last year’s telecast. FOX:  Without the benefit of last Sunday’s NFL overtime lead-in, THE SIMPSONS and BOB’S BURGERS were way down […]

  With live coverage of football and President Obama’s address to the families of Newtown, last night’s ratings won’t really be clear until final numbers are released tomorrow.  What follows is a very preliminary account. CBS:  The SURVIVOR finale had the advantage of a huge (8.5) lead-in from an afternoon NFL overrun, and it’s currently […]

Lance Armstrong (as calculating, cautious and conniving as ever) appeared with Oprah Winfrey Thursday night on the struggling OWN network in a much-hyped and relatively little-watched interview. The 90-minute part one of Lance Armstrong on Oprah’s Next Chapter at 9:00 pm scored a 1.2 rating with adults 18-49 and averaged 3.2 million viewers of any age.  The […]

It’s been so long since there’s been a stable Sunday, what with preemptions and competition from football playoffs, the Super Bowl, the Golden Globes, and the Grammys (with the Oscars still to come), that it’s hard to know what “normal” looks like–but last night, for the most part, wasn’t good. ABC:  Last night’s REVENGE was […]

    BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  Reruns at 0.39/0.29. CBS:  SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION lost 0.04 to 0.28, and GREATEST #ATHOME VIDEOS returned at 0.27, with a BLUE BLOODS rerun ending the night at 0.18. NBC:  Reruns at 0.23/0.23. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN easily won the night, down a tick to 0.57. CW:  BURDEN OF TRUTH dipped 0.02 […]