Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Saturday (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): COLLEGE FOOTBALL on ESPN was by far Saturday’s biggest cable draw, taking up 4 of the Top 5 slots and several more below that.  The top 3 games were at 1.03-1.56, the latter more than tripling […]

Week 38 of the broadcast season (June 4-10) was won by FOX with a 1.55 in prime time, up from last week’s 1.20 (thanks to the arrival of Gordan Ramsay’s two shows Hell’s Kitchen and MasterChef).   NBC fell to a second place 1.33 rating for the week, down from 1.48 last week (particularly because of […]

      NETWORK FINALS:  Sorry for today’s technical difficulties.  We don’t yet have final network charts, but these are the changes from morning numbers:  AMERICAN IDOL and the season finale of THE GOOD DOCTOR each gained 0.1, while GOOD GIRLS lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  Nielsen has roused from its holiday slumbers, so we’re beginning to catch up with last week’s fast national ratings.  CODE BLACK and the BLACK-ISH rerun lost 0.1 in final numbers, while EMPIRE and the rerun of THE GOLDBERGS gained the same.  (Note:  the “SP” label for many of the night’s shows […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  OLYMPICS coverage gained 0.1 in final numbers.              Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  RIO SUMMER OLYMPICS coverage was at the top of Wednesday cable as well, with NBC Sports Net’s primetime telecast at 0.68, CNBC at 0.25, USA […]

On a night of reruns, no one sought out the original programming either. FOX:  Remember when the knock on X-Factor was “well, it’s no AMERICAN IDOL“?  The distance is narrowing:  last night’s 3.6 for Idol matched the X-Factor season high, and wasn’t that far over X-Factor‘s 3.0 fall average.  It was also a scary 1.8 […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL adjusted to 5.8, down half a point from last week.  On ABC, 10 DAYS IN THE VALLEY fell 0.1 in final numbers to an even worse 0.5 premiere.  On CBS, 60 MINUTES and NCIS: LA each gained 0.1, but WISDOM OF THE CROWD lost the same.   […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  ABC got its afternoon gift from Nielsen, as once again, every one of its shows gained in adjusted numbers, this time by 0.1 across the board.  The only other change was THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL settling into a 5.9, down 0.1 from last week’s game. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 […]