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). ###

  CBS survived the loss of its temporary Monday anchor. 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 […]

Primetime was only an hour long last night (2 for CW), so not much to say.  In preliminary numbers, NBC’s news division won bragging rights to victory in the OBAMA VS. ROMNEY miniseries that took up the rest of the evening. ABC:  THE NEIGHBORS predictably fell from its debut in the post-Modern Family slot last […]

> Question for the class:  are the travails of AMERICAN IDOL and THE X FACTOR good or bad for NBC’s THE VOICE?  Discuss among yourselves for the next 4 days. FOX:  It’s becoming a familiar song:  Idol easily wins the night for FOX, dominates its hour… but at a substantially lower level than it has […]

CBS dominates, without a singing competition to be seen. CBS:  THE BIG BANG THEORY, 2 1/2 MEN and PERSON OF INTEREST all had their best outings of the season.  Big Bang was particularly impressive, up 0.4 to a huge 5.5 that almost equaled the 4 other networks combined.  Men was up just a tick to […]

  Marginal changes 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 the […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  Both BAD TEACHER and BLACK BOX stayed where they were this morning.  As usual, THE BIG BANG THEORY came up 0.2, while THE MILLERS fell 0.1.  THE VAMPIRE DIARIES also climbed 0.1. THURSDAY CABLE:  TNT dominated again with the NBA PLAYOFFS, with a pair of 1.8 games.  (The night’s 3rd game, though, […]

  It’s burn-off season at CBS, where back-to-back episodes of the canceled ME, MYSELF & I and LIVING BIBLICALLY aired at identical 0.2 ratings that won’t change anyone’s minds about their exits.  The rest of the ratings news was all sports, with NBC’s NASCAR race at 0.8, and FOX’s regional baseball coverage at 0.4. DEMOGRAPHIC […]