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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings — Preakness Does OK

Posted May 20, 2013 by Mitch Metcalf

The second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown was up versus last year (the pre-race coverage was up 24-49% versus last year, while the race coverage was up only 9% versus last year).  Certainly, millions of TV sets were immediately shut off when Orb (winner of the Kentucky Derby failed miserably in the Preakness).  The […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Friday 5.27.2022 Top 150 Cable Originals & Network Finals UPDATED

Posted May 31, 2022 by Mitch Salem

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  The special TOGETHER AS ONE was at 0.27, and 20/20 dropped 0.07 to 0.28. CBS:  COME DANCE WITH ME ticked down to 0.25, followed by reruns at 0.19/0.21. NBC:  The season finale of THE BLACKLIST was at 0.24, up a tick from last week and up 0.02 from the 2021 finale […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FRIDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 7.3.2020

Posted July 4, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

  More reruns (not all of them noted on the chart below). DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day 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 […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Tuesday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 6.30.2020

Posted July 1, 2020 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  The 8PM rerun of MODERN FAMILY lost 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  News dominated Tuesday cable, with Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.35/0.57/4.2M, and with CNN’s CUOMO PRIME TIME at 0.29/0.45/2M and MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW […]

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THE SKED: “Walking Dead” Keeps Chomping

Posted February 11, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Last night’s midseason premiere of THE WALKING DEAD was disappointingly sluggish, uncompelling, and in its ending, downright silly.  None of that mattered at all to its hordes of fans, though.  The show returned with a gigantic 5.7 rating in 18-49s for its 9PM airing alone (against The Grammys, no less), outrating everything on network […]

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UPDATED: THE SKED CABLE/NETWORK SUNDAY SCORECARD – 7/13/14

Posted July 15, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  NETWORK UPDATE:  RISING STAR and WIPEOUT swapped 0.1s, with RISING STAR on the low end–in fact, it was ABC’s lowest-rated original show of the night.  On CBS, BIG BROTHER went up even higher to 2.2, but RECKLESS was pathetic, down another 0.1 to 0.5.  SUNDAY CABLE:  THE STRAIN, FX’s first entry into the world […]

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Sunday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.27.2019

Posted January 29, 2019 by Mitch Metcalf

        NETWORK FINALS:  MADAM SECRETARY, the 10PM SHARK TANK and the rerun AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS each lost 0.1 in final numbers.  (There was no adjustment for FOX’s RENT.)         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO’s TRUE DETECTIVE topped Sunday scripted, with a 0.15 […]

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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 11.24-25.2018

Posted November 28, 2018 by Mitch Metcalf

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday November 24-25, 2018.  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 25-26, […]

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