AMERICA’S GOT TALENT isn’t just for summer. 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 follows the […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  THE MASKED SINGER, THE AMAZING RACE, CHICAGO MED and CHICAGO PD all gained 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Another heavy news night, with Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.56/0.85/4.7M, CNN’s ANDERSON COOPER 360 at 0.48/0.69/2.7M, […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT gained 0.1 in final numbers, and WORLD OF DANCE lost the same.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The series finale of Freeform’s  PRETTY LITTLE LIARS jumped 0.29 from last week to 0.72, although it was up only […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  20/20 and both the new and rerun episodes of MASTERS OF ILLUSION dropped 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HBO’s REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER took the Friday cable throne on a very slow night, down 0.02 […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  SCORPION, CASTLE and CELEBRITY APPRENTICE each gained 0.1 in final numbers. Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): Comedy Central’s premiere of THE NIGHTLY SHOW was at 0.45, solidly holding its 0.58 lead-in from THE DAILY SHOW.  ABCFamily’s midseason premieres […]

  Ratings in key demos for the Top 25 original cable telecasts (plus a few other lower-rated but noteworthy programs): NOTE:  Due to Nielsen’s sometimes arcane coding of special programming, the chart below will need to be revised, as several of TNT’s NBA ALL-STAR WEEKEND shows, which were actually among the top-rated telecasts of the […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  BLUE BLOODS gained 0.1 in final numbers.   Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Discovery’s GOLD RUSH topped Friday cable, down 0.04 from last week to 1.05, with lead-out PACIFIC WARRIORS up 0.06 to 0.41 (possibly helped by an unusually long 4-minute overrun for GOLD RUSH into PACIFIC’s hour), […]

    NETWORK UPDATE:  THURSDAY  NIGHT FOOTBALL pulled away from THE WIZ LIVE in final numbers, as CBS’s game adjusted up to 5.3, while THE WIZ gained 0.1 to 3.4.  Elsewhere, CMA COUNTRY CHRISTMAS lost 0.1. Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Considering that NFL Network had to share THURSDAY NIGHT […]