NETWORK FINALS:  There were no changes from the preliminary Tuesday ratings.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The season finale of TNT’s ANIMAL KINGDOM was at 0.41, up a tick from last week and impressively up 0.02 from the 2018 finale.  The season finale […]

  BROADCAST FINALS: ABC:  The season premiere of STATION 19 dropped from last season’s 1.1 to 0.76, while the season premiere of GREY’S ANATOMY fell from 1.3 (for a 2-hour episode) to 0.77.  BIG SKY relocated from Tuesdays, and its season premiere was down from 0.7 to 0.37.  CBS:  After YOUNG SHELDON reruns at 0.44/0.38, […]

30 Rock sinks like a stone. NBC:  Yes, things could get worse for NBC’s Thursday.  30 ROCK, making its final season debut, kicked off with a dreadful 1.3, down in every measurable respect (last season’s premiere, last season’s finale, last season’s average, Community‘s premiere last season in that timeslot).  That being the case, you almost […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 11 and Sunday October 12, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 6 Sunday 10.6 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly DEN-NYJ, SD-OAK, PIT-CLE) […]

    NETWORK FINALS:  Due to the extreme amount of adjustments that were likely because of local NFL preemptions, we’ve relocated our network rating analysis to this post.  Comparisons are to last Thursday’s finals. ABC:  HOLEY MOLEY dropped 0.2 to 0.5, and both FAMILY FOOD FIGHT (0.3) and REEF BREAK (0.2) were down 0.1. CBS:  […]

NBC could have used Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday rather than Monday.  The 2.0 rating the concluding game generated Monday would have doubled last night’s rating for the regular NBC Wednesday line-up (instead of bumping a much higher-rated America’s Got Talent out of its pattern Monday night).  In any case, […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  The only change from preliminary numbers was a 0.1 dip for AQUARIUS to an even-worse 0.2. CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  We’re informed by fans that the Adult Swim late-night Saturday line-up is full of shows that while not technically “originals” (so they don’t appear on the charts below) had never before been shown in their […]

FOX won the first night of summer with a 2.4 preliminary rating with Adults 18-49 for the two-hour premiere of So You Think You Can Dance from 8-10 pm.  This is down a disappointing 27% from last summer’s 3.3-rated premiere on the same night.  (The decline is certainly not unprecedented given the rough spring on network television.) […]