> NBC continues to settle on Monday, down another three tenths of a rating point from last week across the entire night.  The Voice is down two tenths week to week (although that decline could become a one tenth drop when the official nationals are in).  The real decline is at 10 pm, with Smash […]

    BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS: ABC:  Reruns at 0.34/0.39. CBS:  SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION gained 0.04 to 0.32, and GREATEST #ATHOME VIDEOS ticked down to 0.26, followed by a BLUE BLOODS rerun at 0.17. NBC:  An AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR rerun at 0.26, followed by DATELINE at 0.31. FOX:  WWE SMACKDOWN edged up 0.02 to 0.59. CW:  BURDEN […]

  Sports continues to be the June ratings story. 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 and […]

>The top two programs on cable this week aired on Sunday against the not-what-it-used-to-be but still very big Academy Awards on ABC.  Most notable was Walking Dead on AMC at 9:00 pm, just when the awards ceremony was getting rolling.  Facing the huge entertainment special, Walking Dead actually was up over last week, from a […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 2 and Sunday January 3, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same NFL and college football weekend or the same calendar weekend […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  As we noted this morning, CBS and CW were preempted in local markets for MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL.  After adjustment on CBS, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, ALL RISE and BULL all lost 0.1 (meaning that compared to last fall’s premieres they were respectively down 0.1/0.2/0.3, while BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA remained down 0.2).  […]

  BROADCAST FINALS ABC:  On a season finale night, THE ROOKIE was at 0.51 (up 0.14 from last week and up 0.15 from last season’s finale), THE ROOKIE: FEDS was at 0.32 (up 0.08), and WILL TRENT was at 0.27 (up 0.07).  CBS:  Reruns at 0.29/0.25/0.22. NBC:  NIGHT COURT lost 0.05 to 0.34, LOPEZ VS […]

  Another newcomer bites the dust. FOX:  ENLISTED showed no signs of life in is premiere with 0.7, slightly behind the 0.8 for its lead-in RAISING HOPE, and the question will be whether FOX is content to leave that hour at a sub-1 level.  BONES was at 1.5, down 0.2 from its last new episode […]