Broadcast news and late night series ratings available below for this week and the same week last year. You can also search for other available weeks with the link at the bottom of this post. Week 45: November 2-8, 2020 Broadcast News: Current Week Broadcast News: Same Week Last Year   Broadcast Late Night: Current […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only changes from last week’s preliminary New Year’s Eve network ratings were extra 0.1s for both parts of NEW YEAR’S ROCKIN EVE and for the 8PM rerun of BLUE BLOODS. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): All the […]

  THE FLASH flew alongside AGENTS OF SHIELD last night. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment) Tuesday, 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 […]

Wednesday preliminary broadcast ratings:

NBC grouts another night with its filling of choice. NBC:  So, yes–shoving THE VOICE into just about any timeslot on the schedule will lift both that slot and whatever follows it.  But last night’s special episode pulled a 3.0, one of its lowest rated episodes ever, and 2 full points below CBS at 8PM, and […]

  Other Nielsenwar Network Report Cards:  ABC, FOX, NBC Tried and True is starting to look more tried. Full Season To Date (thru May 3) 18-49 Rating Average:  1.81 (down 4.1% from last season)–note, however, that last season didn’t include Thursday Night Football. Grade:  B What Happened: Sunday:  Madam Secretary and The Good Wife are […]

NBC’s Winter Olympic coverage from Sochi last night averaged a 5.6 adult 18-49 rating from 8:00-11:00 pm, actually above an unusually weak comparable night in Vancouver (5.4 rating) but well below Turin’s 6.8 rating on the same night. Last night’s coverage included: Ice Dancing Final, Men’s Aerials Final and Bobsled 2-Man Final.  A rather limited menu […]

  See our analysis of the fall line-ups for NBC, FOX, ABC and CBS. In a way, CW got there before anyone else.  The mini-network has been able to make a business out of shrunken linear ratings for years, cobbling together low network license fees, lucrative SVOD deals, an extensive push on streaming, and international sales to produce […]