An abysmal night of television Friday night for the most part, with the top-rated broadcast network (ABC) averaging a 1.1 preliminary Adult 18-49 rating. NBC was a close second at a 1.0 rating from 8-11 pm, but NBC News distinguished itself in the 10 pm hour with adept coverage of the Jerry Sandusky guilty verdicts […]
Olympics minus 1. ABC: Possibly in the belief that its activities qualified for Olympic medals, viewers thronged to WIPEOUT, giving it a 2.2 that was up 0.5 from last week. ROOKIE BLUE was also up a bit to 1.5, winning its hour, and ABC took the night. CBS: The night fell apart at 10PM, when […]
Viewers have the same lack of interest in the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION that they did in the Republicans. FOX: Without the burden of convention coverage, and with its HELL’S KITCHEN/MASTERCHEF double-bill at 2.5/2.7, the network romped away with the night. NBC: AMERICA’S GOT TALENT‘s 2.3 was the highest-rated non-FOX show of the night, but it’s […]
Very little change from last week. 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), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and comparisons follow […]
NBC Monday moved up again, a 4.3 Adult 18-49 prime time rating in the fast nationals (probably a 4.4 in the official nationals). CBS and ABC are even with recent weeks. FOX earned a 1.3 in the fast nationals for Game 2 of St Louis vs San Francisco. We’ll say the game goes up to […]
Even more than most Sundays, last night there was football… and everything else. ABC: A dismal night for the network’s scripted shows. With a football overrun stretching into the 8PM hour on FOX, ONCE UPON A TIME (featuring an episode that strayed from the path of the season’s central storyline for an hour about the […]
The Voice hasn’t run out of steam just yet. NBC: The cycle finale of THE VOICE hit a 4.9, way up from last week and even more impressively, up half a point from last spring’s finale. Even a rerun of the previous night’s episode at 8PM managed a 2.4, in 2d place for its hour. […]
Tangle with football at your peril. ABC: For reasons best known to itself, ABC decided to do battle with the AFC Championship Game on CBS. The results were, not surprisingly, bad: ONCE UPON A TIME and REVENGE both hit season lows of 2.4 and 1.7, down 0.4 and 0.3 from last week. A 10PM SHARK […]