It was the last Friday of the regular season, but the lights were already off. 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 […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday May 9 through Sunday May 15, 2022. Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day). Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week last year: […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  Sports adjustments put the PGA CHAMPIONSHIP on CBS at 0.5, the NHL game on NBC at 0.3, and PBC Boxing on FOX at 0.2.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Sports was firmly in control of Saturday cable.  There were NBA […]

> Dancing doesn’t mambo as fast as it used to. ABC:  The DANCING WITH THE STARS results show did a whole lot better at 9PM than The River‘s ratings, winning the hour with a 3.0 (compared to River‘s mid-1 numbers).  But the Dancing franchise is fading, and as with the performance show on Monday, Tuesday’s […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 25-26, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, November 26-27, […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  There were no meaningful changes from the morning’s overnight numbers.  As often happens, when the dust settled on CBS, THE BIG BANG THEORY rose 0.1 to 5.4 and THE MILLERS slipped 0.1 to 2.8.  In addition, 2 1/2 MEN added 0.1 for 2.2.  Both half-hours of COMMUNITY ended up at 1.3s.  The […]

> A preview of next season’s schedule? CBS:  The network experimented with a new episode of THE MENTALIST at 9PM, and while the 2.0 rating was 20% below the show’s Thursday season low, Friday offers fewer available eyeballs, so a decline was to be expected.  Mentalist nevertheless considerably outrated what CSI NY and A Gifted […]

Preliminary ratings are delayed by Nielsen until at  least 9:30 am PT (90 minutes past due).  The ratings service is performing extra “quality checks,” so be prepared for unusually high quality ratings later this morning!