BROADCAST FINALS:  ABC’s COLLEGE FOOTBALL game was dominant at 1.80, with FOX’s MLB BASEBALL game at 0.21.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  It was COLLEGE FOOTBALL at the top of cable as well, with ESPN’s games at 0.70/0.50/0.49, Fox Sports 1’s at 0.43/0.27/0.14, and ESPN2’s at 0.21/0.20.  NBC […]

Projected weekly network ratings in prime time (based on four days of official nationals and three days of fast nationals). With two preseason NFL games this past week (Friday and Sunday), FOX vaulted to the top of the anemic network prime time ratings averages for the week.  NBC suffered mightily this week with no NFL […]

  A NASCAR overrun may have been the highest-rated show of the night. ABC:  ONCE UPON A TIME rose 0.2 from last week to 2.2, but it’s still hovering half a point below its season average.  REVENGE edged up 0.1 to 1.8 (down 0.4 from season average), and RED WIDOW bid adieu by climbing 0.2 […]

  SPEECHLESS didn’t demonstrate an ability to thrive on its own. 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 […]

  This would be the place where we note that below are the Top 25 cable originals from Saturday night, but due to some technical glitch, BBCAmerica’s DOCTOR WHO didn’t make it onto the chart, although it was at 0.49 in 18-49s, which should have ranked it #6 for the night (and it had 1.23M […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Friday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  A&E’s LIVE PD led Friday cable, up a tick to 0.57, with the lead-in hour up 0.07 to 0.35.  ESPN’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.44/0.42.  Discovery’s […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  The finale of JEOPARDY MASTERS rose 0.11 to 0.61, and THE PRANK PANEL premiered at 0.30.  THE GAME SHOW SHOW fell 0.09 to 0.19. CBS:  The season finale of SURVIVOR was at 0.69, down 0.02 from last week and down a tenth from last May. NBC:  On season finale night, CHICAGO […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  At this point, it’s far from a surprise that all of ABC’s sitcoms gained in afternoon adjusted ratings:  THE MIDDLE, THE GOLDBERGS and BLACK-ISH by 0.1, and MODERN FAMILY by 0.2.  (No goodies for NASHVILLE, though.)  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts Wednesday (plus a few other lower-rated […]