> This isn’t the way Flex Time was supposed to work. NBC:  As part of its multi-billion dollar deal with the NFL, NBC is supposed to have the right, during the last few weeks of the regular football season, to change the designated Sunday night game and choose one that’s more valuable, usually in terms […]

  Big Brother wasn’t so big last night. CBS:  BIG BROTHER premiered with a 2.1 preliminary adult 18-49 rating last night, down half a point from the 2.6 rating last year when it premiered in its more traditional post-Independence Day position on July 12, and tied its lowest premiere ever 5 years ago.  THE AMERICAN […]

  THE WINTER OLYMPICS have been doing what they were meant to do for NBC.  In the first full week of ratings to include the Sochi Winter Games, NBC completely dominated the (mostly sleeping) broadcast competition with a 5.5 average primetime rating (Live + Same Day) in 18-49s.  Far, far behind were FOX (the only […]

  Did moving The Good Wife and Revenge away from one another for a night help both shows? CBS:  The afternoon NFL overrun pushed the night’s schedule by an entire hour in most of the country, kicking The Mentalist out of primetime.  The effect was interesting, not because of the giant push football gave 60 […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  THE CONNERS gained 0.06 to 0.48, THE GOLDBERGS grew by 0.07 to 0.37, ABBOTT ELEMENTARY rose 0.06 to 0.49, and NOT DEAD YET was up 0.06 to 0.31.  A MILLION LITTLE THINGS was up 0.05 to 0.24. CBS:  SURVIVOR rose 0.05 to 0.74, LINGO climbed 0.06 to 0.32, and TRUE LIES […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The STANLEY CUP FINALS game and the 9PM CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD rerun rose 0.1 in final numbers, while the 8PM SUPERNATURAL rerun lost the same.           Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Not surprisingly, Thursday cable was obsessed with James Comey’s […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  There were significant adjustments (to the next tenth) for KENAN and NEW AMSTERDAM.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  On OWN, the season finale of QUEEN SUGAR was at 0.13, up 0.03 from last week and down 0.09 from the last […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday February 21 through Sunday February 27, 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: […]