This year’s NBA FINALS continue to score a bit lower than last year’s. 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 […]

  Due to last Wednesday’s holiday, comparisons are to 2 weeks ago unless otherwise noted. 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 […]

>The return of Dancing to Tuesday brought ABC back above a 2 rating and into second place, but far below the lofty 3.4 rating the network scored on this night a year ago.  Steady as always, CBS held on to first place for the night.  Dancing‘s recap and results shows did damage NBC, which sunk […]

          NETWORK FINALS:  Game 3 of the NBA FINALS adjusted to 6.1, down from 7.3 for 2015’s Game 3, and also down 0.4 from Sunday’s Game 2.  The mini-JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE reduced to 1.1 after adjustment.  There were no other changes from this morning’s numbers.       Broadcast Official Nationals […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The reruns of AMERICA’S GOT TALENT and WORLD OF DANCE swapped 0.1s in final numbers, respectively up and down.  In addition, the BULL rerun lost 0.1.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Fox Sports 1’s WORLD CUP match led Tuesday cable […]

  Another pair of unscripted summer series with underwhelming premieres. 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 […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year. Golf PGA: Zurich Classic of New […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday February 4-5, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K 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, February 6-7, […]